Poetry Society Online Writing Workshop: Repeat After Me with Isabelle Baafi

Join the Poetry Society for their online workshop: Repeat After Me with Isabelle Baafi.

In this workshop you will test the limits of syntax and grammar, and gain new mastery of arranging words in order to expose new meanings. You will examine the use of repeated sounds, words, lines and stanzas in work by poets including Mimi Khalvati, Jamila Woods and Arthur Sze. You will deconstruct forms such as the triolet, the specular poem and the pantoum to create new cycles of language and new ways of rephrasing, reliving, remembering. You will discover overlooked ways to energise poems, as well as what we can make new in the doing-over. What bears repeating. What is lost and gained when we repeat ourselves.

If you have ever wanted to write a ghazal, sestina or villanelle, or if you are curious about how anaphora, refrains and mirroring can produce echoes that resound and remain, this generative writing workshop with Isabelle Baafi is for you.