May 7
Online
Masterclass: Using Social Media to Make Your Poems Fly
How to get your unique voice heard
This session is in partnership with Oxford Brookes University and will be free to attend.
Do you have experience of being a carer? Do you want to find ways to explore this often difficult and complex role through your poetry?
Inspired by the work and life of Victorian poet and carer Christina Rossetti, this special masterclass will offer a supportive and safe environment for you to reflect on your role as carer and use it as inspiration for new writing. Led by poet Sarah Hesketh and Rossetti expert Dr. Dinah Roe, we’ll work through poetry readings and writing exercises that give voice to the intimacies and demands of care, helping you to find new ways to tell your own stories of this often invisible but life-changing experience.
Listen to Dinah Roe and Sarah Hesketh discussing poetry workshops for carers on Woman’s Hour. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001msr7
The Masterclass will be delivered via Zoom webinar, so you can take the session at your own pace, without the pressure of having your video or camera on. Sessions are also recorded so if you are unable to attend live, you will have access to the recording for a month afterwards.
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Sarah Hesketh is a writer and editor. She is the author of the poetry collections Napoleon’s Travelling Bookshelf (Penned …
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Dinah Roe is Reader in English Literature at Oxford Brookes University, specialising in Pre-Raphaelitism and Victorian Poetry. She is editor of…
Online: Free
If you are able to, donations are encouraged. Suggested donation £5.
We are committed to making our Arvon at Home programme accessible to as many people as possible.
Across all of Arvon at Home
Masterclasses
Online Writing Day
How I Write
Online Writing Weeks and Evening Courses
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