Poetry Installations
12:00 to 17:15 – Frobisher Hub
Experimental poetry installations created by members of the group will be available to view in the Frobisher Hub for the duration of the event.
Workshops
Call and Response: Poetry and the Body in Conversation
12:15 to 13:30 – Frobisher Room 1
Barbican Young Poet, Nomakhwezi Becker
This workshop is an invitation to explore call and response as a method for being in co-creative conversation with the body and the space it occupies. Through concepts inspired by Zulu and Xhosa forms of storytelling from South Africa, the body as a place of knowing and generative space is explored to find words for that which is already felt. Here, the shape of reciprocal attentiveness to the body's aliveness and agency as it accompanies us in witnessing the world is traced on the page.
The Poetics of our Genetics
12:15 to 13:30 – Frobisher Room 2
Barbican Young Poet, Noah Jacob
Our bodies are poetry in motion. Informed by biological and anthropological readings, this workshop aims to explore the latest research and wisdoms to explore the push and pull between the somatic and the written word.
We will use our newfound, and old found, understandings of the body to experiment with form, language and structure. We will explore the poetics of biology and how this can inform our practices, such as using the language of genetics to experiment with rhythm and form, or skin stories to produce somatic and anthropologically-informed works.
Poetry Performances
14:15 to 16:40 – Auditorium 1
Including a 20 min interval.
With live and recorded poetry performances from the 2024 Young Poets cohort, featuring work created during the programme.
