Poetry Reading & Workshop: ‘Sea Sure’

Poetry Workshop: ‘Sea Sure’ - Sunday 23rd April, 10am to 12pm

Join this themed poetry workshop with acclaimed author Suzannah V. Evans.

Shorelines are spaces of shifting boundaries, changing tides, and habitats in flux. A meeting place between sea and land, shorelines merge both elements: ‘The sea is the land’s edge also, the granite / Into which it reaches’, T. S. Eliot writes in Four Quartets.

In this workshop, we will become ‘surer’ in writing about the uncertainties of the shore, considering our human relationship with the coast as well as the myriad creatures and plants that thrive in the intertidal zone.

Through a series of interactive writing exercises, we will think through the importance of the local and turn our attention to limpets, buoys, bottle caps, kittiwakes, sandhoppers, rockpools, and more, guided by writers including Virginia Woolf, Jen Hadfield, JR Carpenter, Isabel Galleymore, and Mina Gorji.

Poetry Reading - Thursday 20th April, 7pm

Join Suzannah V. Evans for an evening of poetry celebrating place and marine life. From the submerged amphora that becomes the central element of the British-Surrealist artist Eileen Agar’s sculpture Marine Object (1939), to the environment of a working boatyard in Bristol, these poems will take you on a tour through different waterways. The evening will include new material from Suzannah’s recent residency at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) in Oban.

Your Tutor: Suzannah V. Evans

Suzannah V. Evans is the author of Brightwork and Marine Objects / Some Language (Guillemot Press, 2021 and 2020), and a selection of her work appears in the anthology New Poetries VIII (Carcanet, 2021). Her poetry has been broadcast on BBC Radio Bristol, performed at international festivals, and awarded the Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment. She is the editor of All Keyboards are Legitimate: Versions of Jules Laforgue, an anthology versioning the French poet Laforgue, and she completed her PhD in modern poetry at Durham University. Suzannah was also poet in residence at SAMS (Scottish Association for Marine Science) here in Oban.