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In the Grip of Change – Poetry Workshops

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Price

Free

Time
3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Location

Seng Tee Lee room, Senate House Library, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Event type

Workshop

Speakers

Jenny Mitchell (poet)

Join award-winning poet Jenny Mitchell for creative sessions inspired by a range of vibrant materials from Senate House Library’s Caribbean and Black History Collections.

A display case containing three pamphlets - Going Where the Work is by Isaac Gordon, Black and White on the Buses by Madge Dresser and Together Say No Discrimination by John Moss

Participants will be given imaginative prompts to inspire poetry about the objects in the collection and our own emotions when thinking about the path to independence of several Caribbean colonies.

We’ll explore aspects of the Caribbean diaspora in Britain, and the way successive changes to immigration and nationality laws culminated in the 'Windrush' scandal.

Participants will also have special access to objects that include rare pamphlets, posters, newspapers, comics and badges.

The workshops are open to new and experienced writers, and they will be completely non-judgemental spaces.

Maximum 12 participants at each workshop. Light refreshments served.

 

Please book one of the following dates:

5th February - for students

19th February - for academics and historians

4th March - for members of the public

 

Jenny Mitchell is an award-winning poet with three collections: Her Lost Language was joint winner of the Geoff Stevens Prize, Map of a Plantation won the Poetry Book Awards and is on the syllabus at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Resurrection of a Black Man contains three prize-winning poems. She’s performed at the Houses of Parliament, and was the Inaugural Poet-in-the-Community at the British Library. You can find out more about Jenny's work in the featured article of the Write On! magazine.

This page was last updated on 17 December 2024