Balancing the Known with the Unknowable, Poetry Masterclass with John Glenday 22/6/25 Sunday

"...to give up facts, to have an empty mind...' (Victoria Chang)

When drafting new work, what exactly is the relationship between knowledge and the unknown? With each poem we're following a thin line between the two, but to arrive successfully we need to trust not just our own skills, but our readers, and the words themselves.

This interactive, generative workshop will examine the journey of the poem between certainty and doubt; between familiarity and discovery; silence and words.

We'll look at sample poems by Victoria Chang, Karen Solie and Charles Wright, discuss technique and engage with new strategies to produce new work through a sequence of brief, intensive writing exercises.

1.5 hours long

Start time: 10am UK time // 5pm Perth Australia // 6.30pm Adelaide & Darwin // 7pm Brisbane & Sydney, AEST // 9pm NZ

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Cost £24 GBP (with cost effective exchange via STRIPE)

John Glenday is the author of four poetry collections. 'The Apple Ghost' (Peterloo Poets 1989) won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award; 'Undark' (Peterloo Poets 1995) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; 'Grain' (Picador 2009) was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Ted Hughes Award, and 'The Golden Mean' (Picador 2015) was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Poetry Book of the Year and won the 2016 Roehampton Poetry Prize. His most recent publications are a limited edition artbook 'mira', (Coast to Coast to Coast 2019) and a pamphlet, 'The Firth' (Mariscat Press 2020). His Selected Poems was published by Picador in 2020.

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