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This is a one-day workshop.

Type: Workshop
Level: Open to all
Location: North West

Details

Date: Saturday 4th Dec 2010

Time: 10am - 4pm

Cost:

Full cost:£53.00
60+:£41.00
Concs:£35.00

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Consciousness and Coincidences: Writing About Liverpool

Liverpool has long been fused with poetic association, from Gerard Manley Hopkins' time here through to the success of The Liverpool Poets and the current range of poets writing in the city. You'll look at the way Liverpool has been written about and work on a number of writing exercises to suggest how the combinations of personal history, openness to different forms and both research and chance encounters in the city can make for exciting new work. Chris brings his experience of writing a poetic play for voices about London Docklands (Shad Thames, Broken Wharf) to Liverpool, his home city.

Chris will be performing Shad Thames, Broken Wharf at the Bluecoat on the evening of 4 December - for more details, visit www.thebluecoat.org.uk.

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Chris McCabe

Chris McCabe was born in Liverpool in 1977. His poetry has featured in a number of magazines including Magma and Poetry Review. His first collection The Hutton Inquiry was published in 2005, his second Zeppelins was recently published by Salt. He has discussed and read his poetry on BBC World Service, featured a poem on the Oxfam CD Lifelines and performs his work regularly. He currently works as Joint Librarian of The Poetry Library and lives in Dagenham with his wife and son.