Without a form / Without forms is a 6 week course exploring histories and currents of poetry and poetic techniques, including the Black Arts Movement, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry, utopian poetry in Brazil from 1930 to 1990 and the influence of theatre, Free Verse poetry in Arabic and its relationships to social struggles, and the archives of contemporary poets such as Jay Bernard and Joelle Taylor (provided by the UEA).

Led by local poet Lotte L.S., these different approaches to writing and engaging with poetry will be explored in relatable and digestible ways, with the aim of expanding and challenging our own assumptions and self-policing of what a poem is, looks like, sounds like, what it is often obligated to reveal; and what a poem can be, and express, in all its possibilities.

Engaging with these poetic techniques and reinventing them for ourselves — our places, our particularities — we will then wield them in our readings and rewritings (annotations, erasures, crossings-out and circlings) of poems from the canonical Victorian anthology The Golden Treasury of Songs and Poems (1861), edited by Francis Turner Palgrave, a poet and critic originally from Great Yarmouth.

Material written and shared during these sessions will then be edited and published by red herring press in a new pamphlet anthology later this year.

Please complete the form below to register your place, and read the following course details carefully.

Course details:

- Weekly on Wednesdays from 6:30PM to 8:30PM,
over 6 weeks from 12th June to 17th July.

- Location: Great Yarmouth Library
(Southgate Room upstairs. Accessible access via lift).

- All experiences of writing welcome (including none!). Ages 18+

- Free, but places are limited. After completing the form (below) you will receive an email confirming your place.
If the course is already full when you register we will let you know, and you will be added to the waiting list.

- We ask that you register with the intention to attend all 6 sessions of the course. If you realise you can no longer attend the course after registering, please let us know so we can offer your place to someone else.

- Snacks and hot drinks will be provided.

- Any enquiries, email: 135redherringpress@gmail.com

* The poster artwork above is from Yasmine Seale’s erasures of The Thousand and One Nights. More about them here.

* This course is in partnership with the UEA, and Norfolk Libraries, with special thanks to Jeremy Noel-Tod.