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Event Overview:
Most people get their first and only experience of modern poetry through school or University. But the way in which students encounter poetry, and what they expect it to be, is changing rapidly. The new A2 syllabus is introducing creative rewriting and some less filtered context, and it is not clear that Universities are ready for the new expectations this will bring. At the same time, quite outside the education system or established publishing networks, young people are consciously making a new participative and performance-based poetry for themselves. How do we connect performance culture and creative work with the poetry we teach? How can we make poetry happen in the class or seminar, as opposed to merely extracting meanings from it? With participation from poets, publishers and teachers, this event will try to map these new directions and then turn to some poets in depth to discuss how we can make creativity, learning, form, voice and history all coalesce. Audience: Teachers of poetry at Universities, Colleges and Schools. Teaching Assistants welcome.