24 April,
Workshop /
Daljit Nagra: Innovating the Lyric
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 10:00am
Faber Academy Online / €45
Tickets On Sale NowIn this fun and friendly session we’ll explore some ways that poetry can push at the boundaries of the lyric tradition while remaining immediate. Participants will be inspired to attempt new poems in various styles and there will be opportunity for the whole group and breakout group discussion.
Daljit Nagra
Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University, Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, Council of Society of Authors, a PBS New Generation Poet, Daljit’s four poetry collections, all with Faber & Faber, have won the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem and Best First Book, the South Bank Show Decibel Award and the Cholmondeley Award, and been shortlisted for the Costa Prize and twice for the TS Eliot Prize. The inaugural Poet-in-Residence for Radio 4 & 4 Extra, he presents the weekly Poetry Extra.
