Bradford Girls Grammar School
Anthony has been working as a poetry educator for over decade across the UK and internationally. His workshops consist of specially designed exercises aimed at teaching students how they can build more interesting and unusual imagery, phrasing and narrative into their poems. Poems will very much be focused around exploring their own lives, experiences and sensibilities with an added push to avoid linear or literal writing.
A discussion around logic in art and poetry will begin the sessions, where the idea of non-sense and creative possibility within poetry will be explored and unpacked. This is intended to demonstrate to students that language and meaning can alter and shift depending on the way words are organised and presented on a page, while supporting them in taking sufficient risks and leaps with their poetry.
For longer sessions there will also be time for close reading where Anthony will bring in a number of poems which correspond to each other or to any specific theme the workshops are structured around. In the past, themes of identity, inequality and empathy have all been incredibly popular among students and schools.
At the end of each session the group will be invited to read their poems out with individual feedback being offered.
Anthony is currently the poet-in-residence at Queen Elizabeth Boys School, Barnet, and The Latymer School, Edmonton where he teaches weekly courses across several year groups.
For further information on costs, availability and more specific workshops, please reach out via our contact page.