Through a Japanese Lens

Following on from Alex's sellout zuihitsu workshop, this session will probe Japanese forms and sensibilities further, using a variety of materials and generative prompts.

About Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana

Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana’s first collection, Sing me down from the dark, was published by SALT in 2022 and is in its third issue. She is a PGCE-qualified teacher and has been teaching for 28 years, mainly in higher education. She has been published in numerous magazines including P.N. Review, Poetry Wales, The Moth and Artemis Poetry, and, inspired by Japanese forms, has zuihitsu, haibun and tanka forthcoming in The North and Obsessed with Pipework. She also recently guest edited Issue 11 of The Alchemy Spoon.
In 2023, she was shortlisted for the Fish Prize and Leeds Poetry Festival Award, highly commended in the Winchester Poetry Prize, and longlisted for the National Poetry Competition. She lived in Japan for 10 years and has Master’s degrees in Writing Poetry and in Japanese Language and Culture. She will visit Japan in November to work on her second collection and give a talk at the Japan Writers conference, in Futaba.

Zoom

These workshops will be conducted via Zoom. We have put together this simple 'How To' document to help you download Zoom, join a meeting, and navigate around the meeting features (such as adjusting video and audio, uploading files, and sharing screens).

You will receive a confirmation email from Ticket Tailor with your ticket and the Zoom invitation, containing the meeting link and Meeting ID & Password.

Someone from The Poetry Business team will be on hand prior to each workshop to offer additional help in getting connected.

There is usually a lot of interest in our workshops: in the interest of fairness, please limit yourself to one workshop ticket in every two week period.

Bursary Spaces

There are two bursary spaces available per workshop for writers from groups that are under-represented in contemporary poetry (for instance because of ethnic background) or who are experiencing financial hardship. If you would like to apply for one of these bursary places, please contact workshops@poetrybusiness.co.uk

Refunds

If you no longer wish to attend the workshop please let us know by emailing us. We ask for 3 working days' notice before the workshop starts in order to offer a full refund, and enable us to offer the place to someone else.

Though we will do all we can to help you get set up with the technology it is the participants' responsibility to ensure that their camera, microphone and other computer settings are configured correctly. Please contact us (workshops@poetrybusiness.co.uk) if you are concerned about getting set up for Zoom.