ANCESTRY, INTERTEXTUALITY & GHOSTS

Join Richard Scott for this workshop in which we'll consider our poetic ancestors and how they might inspire -- through intertextuality, idea and form -- our writing now. We'll be doing writing exercises and discussing poems together as we become, in the words of Lucie Brock-Broido, ‘a freak of letters crossing down a rare / Path bleak with poplars’. ABOUT THE POET

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 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 is a lecturer in creative writing at Goldsmiths, University of London where he also runs a poetry reading group, and he teaches poetry at the Faber Academy. His poetry has been translated into German and French.