STATE VIOLENCE AND THE POETIC RESPONSE
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State Violence and the Poetic Response

A Writers’ Workshop and Evening Event, 5th-6th December 2018

Exploring the possibilities for poetry and the spoken and written word to translate histories of state violence into radical new possibilities for being in the contemporary time.

Fred D’Aguiar, multi-award-winning poet, novelist and playwright, and Professor of English at UCLA, and Nick Makoha, Cave Canem Graduate Fellow and winner of the Toi Dericotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize, will lead a focused writing workshop for a limited number of participants, to explore creative and critical writing practice as resistance in the context of the long and violent history that underpins transatlantic society today.

Wednesday 5th December, 12:00-5:30pm at Goldsmiths University of London.
Open to all. Apply now by emailing completed application form, short CV and writing sample to leila.kamali@liverpool.ac.uk  **DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FRIDAY 23RD NOVEMBER**


Fred D’Aguiar and Nick Makoha reading their work and in discussion with Leila Kamali (University of Liverpool), Thursday 6th December, 6.00-8.00pm, Goldsmiths. Book via Eventbrite.



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