Close Reading with Kirsten Luckins

For these close reading sessions, Kirsten will respond in real time to four or five poems sent in by you, narrating her journey as reader and offering insight into the mechanisms at play within the text. She will illuminate different ways in which your poetry could be received and perceived, showing which elements may need strengthening, questioning, or 'weirdfying'.

What to expect
7-8pm – Close reading
8-8.30pm – General discussion

To submit a poem
After booking, you'll receive a confirmation email with a link to submit a poem for consideration. Poems will be selected to ensure a range of styles are explored during the session. 

This event is exclusively for Women Poets' Network members, Not a member yet? Join here from just £15 per year. 

The session will be recorded – if you'd like to come along but can't make it on the day, please select a REPLAY ticket. 

Kirsten Luckins is a Teesside-based poet and performer whose creative practice embraces ekphrasis, eco-poetics, and experimentation generally. Her third collection Passerine (Bad Betty) was long-listed for the Laurel Prize for Eco-Poetry; her first pamphlet of dystopian sci-fi poetry, Offworld, has just been published by The Braag. She is director of the Tees Women Poets, a literature charity in Teesside, and has formerly been regional producer for Apples and Snakes, and national project manager for the Rebecca Swift Foundation's Women Poets' Network. A huge fan of the nuts and bolts of poetic craft, she runs occasional online courses in close reading called How to Enjoy Poetry and offers 1:1 mentoring and close reading on poems and pamphlets.

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