From Ted Hughes to Chen Chen, Jo Shapcott to Liz Berry, many of the best poems are written about interactions with animals. 

This workshop will look at different ways of writing about animals, from description to monologue, encouraging you to get the energy of animals into your writing. You will explore the craft of writing poems about wild animals and the extraordinary power they can bring into poems, but we will also consider domestic animals and the important roles they can have in our lives.

Through a range of workshop exercises, your aim is to write poems from which lions and tigers, dogs and foxes roar and leap and breathe. 

About the facilitator:

Jonathan Edwards’s first collection of poems, My Family and Other Superheroes (Seren, 2014), received the Costa Poetry Award and the Wales Book of the Year People’s Choice Award. It was shortlisted for the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection…