YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A POEM – a playful revolution

Often, we have no control over the language of our lives. The forms we have to fill, the emails we have to send, the music being played in the supermarket, the names of the roads we follow, the adverts we walk or scroll or flick past.

In this workshop, we’ll take back control of the language we live by, exploring the Situationist technique of détournement to liberate language and release the unruly poetic potential in everything from reality TV to coding, online advertising to poetry submission guidelines. We’ll look at pieces by poets including Astra Papachristodoulou, Hala Alyan, and Chris McCabe as we set out on the playful work of taking back control. A NOTE ABOUT THE POET FROM THE POET

I’m Ellora Sutton, my pronouns are she/her, and I am a poet living in the wilds of North East Hampshire. I have been the Poet-in-Residence at both Jane Austen’s House and Petersfield Museum, and I am currently the poetry reviewer for Mslexia.

I am researching a PhD in English at Northeastern University London, using poetry to assess the impact of gender bias in urban planning on the lived experiences of those who inhabit the city.

I have been published online and in print by The Poetry Review, Popshot, Poetry News, fourteen poems, The North, Oxford Poetry, Under the Radar, bath magg, and The Interpreter’s House, amongst others.

I have won the Mslexia Poetry Competition, the Artlyst Art to Poetry Award, the Pre-Raphaelite Society Poetry Competition, and several Young Poets Network challenges. I have been highly commended in the Keats-Shelley Prize, commended in the Winchester Poetry Prize, longlisted for the National Poetry Competition, and shortlisted for the Bridport Prize.