12 April,
Poetry / Workshop /
Richard Scott: Advanced Poetry Workshop: Hauntings and Intertextuality
Saturday, 12 April 2025, 11:00am
Bank of Ireland Theatre, O’Donoghue Centre, University of Galway / €65
Book NowMight the poet be, in the words of Lucie Brock-Broido, ‘a freak of letters crossing down a rare / Path bleak with poplars’? Join Richard Scott for this workshop in which we’ll consider our poetic ancestors and how they might haunt and inspire — through intertextuality, idea and form — our writing now. We’ll be doing writing exercises and discussing poems by Will Harris, Allen Ginsberg and Sandeep Parmar, amongst others, as we attempt to talk to the dead and summon the ‘familiar compound ghost’ written about by Seamus Heaney when talking about his many poetic loves including T.S. Eliot.
Richard Scott was born in London in 1981. His first book Soho (Faber & Faber, 2018), was a Gay’s the Word book of the year and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot prize. His second poetry collection, That Broke into Shining Crystals, is forthcoming from Faber & Faber in February 2025. Richard teaches poetry at the Faber Academy and is a lecturer in creative writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His poetry has been translated into German and French.
