Looking at tone and voice in poems and trying to work out what control of diction and register can achieve.

Participants are invited to bring one of their poems for workshopping in this session for advanced writers. Poems will be discussed and guided exercises undertaken.

Please note that there can be only one booking per email address for this workshop as we may have to directly correspond in advance with writers.

Nick Laird was born in County Tyrone in 1975. A poet, novelist, screenwriter, critic and former litigator, his awards include the Betty Trask Prize, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, a Forward prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and a Guggenheim fellowship. For many years he taught at universities in America including Columbia, Princeton and NYU, and is now the Seamus Heaney Professor of Poetry at Queens’ University, Belfast. His sixth poetry collection, Beast Mode, is forthcoming from Faber, and Weirdo in Winter, the third installment of his children's books co-written with Zadie Smith, is forthcoming from Penguin. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and sits on the board of Poetry Ireland.

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