30 March and 6 April , 2023
2:30pm - 5:30pm
Precarities, Pastorals and Poetics is a creative-writing workshop which asks how precarity can queer our relationship with the natural world, crafting new understandings of pastoral poetry. We draw together a range of pastoral traditions: 18th &19th century labouring class poets, urban pastorals of precariously employed workers, and the necropastoral which binds together technology, death and the anthropocene.
We will lead a close reading of critically-engaged poems & texts, followed by time to write your own poems/texts. The second session is a poetry reading of the group's writing, with time to reflect. This workshop is for everybody.
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Charlotte Wetton is a poet and visiting scholar from University of Manchester (UK); Morris Fox is an artist and poet in the Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD, Concordia University (Tiohtia:ke/Montreal),+. These workshops conclude a project of creative and critical exchange between Wetton and Fox, under Dr. Danielle Bobker.
Image credit: Morris Fox, 2019