Active reading for poetry writing

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Push the Boat Out is delighted to host this online poetry writing workshop, with Preston Losack, the host of Preston's Poetry Podcast.

Join Preston as we look closely at poems from a technical and formal point of view, using our newly gained understanding of these poems to develop how we write, how we edit and how we read. We'll marking up poems and breaking them down to recognise patterns and investigate how and why the form matches the content – before using this knowledge to write our own poems.

Preston Losack (b. 1991, Dallas) used to live in a monastery, and that affected his way he lives his life and writes today outside the cloister. He finds the sublime in ordinary things and has a huge drive to inspire people in his community to love humanity and value authentic connection as deeply as he does. Writing poetry is often a fitting instrument to do this. He cherishes the canon in some ways, but he is committed in his work to making that canon more inclusive and accessible. That’s why he started Preston’s Poetry Podcast, with the aim of tearing down barriers to reading and writing poetry. The podcast has reached thousands of unique listeners in more than 60 countries on just about every podcasting platform since it was started.

In collaboration with the City of Literature Leeuwarden