The Poem of the Book

This is a paid workshop and sign-up via the website is obligatory.

Do you have a favourite book you want to make the subject of a poem? This workshop will explore poems that are in dialogue with literature, and how poets bring in their favourite authors. From the classics to the contemporary, we'll look at how poets explore their relationship with the novel and their authors. Homage, dialogue or exploration, we'll see how prose becomes the subject of poetry and discuss the significance of particular novels for you. We'll use poems as prompts, poems that look at Woolf, Keats, Gide, Tolstoy, Cavafy, to see how poets and those closest to them have engaged with their literary heroes through poems.

Please have a think in advance about the books and novels that have been important to you or to those around you, perhaps the characters in the novels you related to or reacted to, or your relationship with the novelists themselves.

📅Date and time: Saturday 28 March 11:00 to 13:00

📍Venue: Pianofabriek, Rue du Fort 35, 1060 Saint-Gilles

💰Price: €25 Eur (non-member) €20 Eur (Member).