Speaking through Others: Writing the Glosa, masterclass with Hannah Lowe 19/1/26

Join top UK poet, Hannah Lowe, to explore the glosa,  a centuries-old Spanish poetic form that begins with a cabeza - a borrowed quatrain - and grows into a dialogue between poets across time and space. In this workshop, we’ll read some striking contemporary examples, trace how poets reinvent the form to honour and challenge their sources, and try writing our own glosas. You’ll leave with the beginnings of a new poem and a form that invites deep listening, echo, and transformation.

Hannah Lowe is a poet, memoirist and academic. Her last book, The Kids (2021), won the Costa Poetry Award and the Costa Book of the Year, 2021.The forthcoming one is The Woman in the Chinese Collar (2027). Her first poetry collection, Chick (2013), won the Michael Murphy Memorial Award for Best First Collection. In September 2014, she was named as one of 20 Next Generation poets. Her family memoir Long Time, No See (2015) featured as Radio 4’s Book of the Week. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University. www.hannahlowe.me

Pre-homework: Participants are invited to bring to the workshop one or two short quatrains (four line stanzas) they find inspiring to use as a source text (cabeza) for the glosa. These could be lines from a poem, song lyrics, or prose that can be lineated.  Here's some tips from Kimiko Hahn and this from her too.

2 hours long

Start time: 9am UK time // 5pm Perth Australia // 7.30pm Adelaide // 6.30 Darwin // 7pm Brisbane // 8pm Sydney, AEST // 10pm NZ

Times on the homepage of this site are in London, UK Timezone, but when you add the event to your calendar it should be correct for your local time zone.

You can check your timezone against London UK time here: https://greenwichmeantime.com/time-gadgets/time-zone-converter/

Cost £30 GBP (with cost effective exchange via STRIPE)

Zoom link and materials will be sent by email at least 2 days prior. If you don’t receive it get in touch with me.

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This event will be recorded. Our workshops are intended as live and interactive. However, there are a small number of tickets for those keen to come who cannot make the date of this workshop that are 'recording only' tickets to be purchased in advance ONLY for those who can't make the date. If you buy a live ticket and don't turn up on the day, you can't access the recording – sorry, it's not a fall back. You can buy a live OR recorded ticket. This is because we primarily want poets to come and participate in live workshops. 'Recording only' tickets allow access to listen to a recording of the workshop during the 2 weeks following the workshop. (Note that we may share the recording at a future time to new participants.)