Join us to welcome in Poetry Spring on Saturday 30 April at St John's College, an afternoon of poetry workshops, discussions and readings with British and international poets. All the events are free but places must be booked via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/to-dwell-in-a-shell-poetry-workshop-by-holly-corfield-carr-tickets-313235906027?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Poetry Spring is organised by Mina Gorji (Pembroke College) and Sasha Dugdale (St John's College) and is funded by St John's College and a grant from the Judith E Wilson Fund.
(Meet at St John's Great Gate at 1.50pm, this will take place in the Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, if the weather is bad)
In The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard daydreams of living alone. To live alone, he says, is to dwell in a shell. This creative workshop withdraws into the iridescent interiors of shells, looking closely at forms of repetition and repair to consider the human, animal and mineral entanglements of solitude, survival and rest. Participants will be provided with poems, prompts and a shell, although you are welcome to bring your own.
Holly Corfield-Carr is leading this workshop. Holly is a poet, writer and researcher with an interest in site-specific writing practices and sculptural poetics. Her latest pamphlet is Subsong (National Trust, 2018). She is a research fellow at the University of Cambridge.
3.30-4pm Tea and Coffee in the Divinity School (opposite St John's College)
