Crafting an Award-winning Poem, Malika Booker 27/11 /24
Malika Booker, the only woman (or non-binary person) to win the UK Forward Prize for Best Single Poem twice, will generously share the creative and editing processes behind her poem, “Little Miracles.” which won the 2020 Forward Prize.
You will be able to examine the drafts and evolution of this highly awarded poem and gain rare insight into how it was conceived, refined and completed. You’ll receive copies of early drafts and the final poem prior to the workshop.
This poem was also a collaborative commission, and hence the discussion will also give you insight into approaching collaborations and commissions. Magma magazine commissioned the poem as collaboration with Lowri Dowthwaite, a lecturer in Psychological Interventions at the University of Central Lancashire.
Spend an inspiring session with the exceptional poetic energy and wisdom of Malika Booker. These are small groups (one screen) and so there will plenty of opportunity to ask questions about Malika’s process during the workshop.
Timing and Cost
9am UK time // 5pm Perth Australia // 7.30pm Adelaide // 7pm Brisbane // 8pm Sydney, AEST // 6.30pm Darwin // 10pm NZ
Wednesday 27th November, 2024
1 hour long plus half an hour extra for Q&As – allow 1.5 hours
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Cost £22 GBP (with cost effective exchange via STRIPE)
Online on Zoom, limited to 23 people only (one screen) to enable participation.
About Malika Booker
Malika Booker, is a poet, theatre-maker, performer and multi-disciplinary artist of Guyanese and Grenadian parentage. She is a winner of a Society of Authors Cholmondeley Award for poetry and the only woman to win the UK Forward Prize for Best Single Poem Prize twice! A third poem has been shortlisted for the same prize. Her collection Pepper Seed (Peepal Tree Press) was shortlisted for the OCM Bocas and the Seamus Heaney Centre prize. She is published with Sharon Olds and Warsan Shire in The Penguins Modern Poet Series 3: Your Family: Your Body (2017), and written and performed in many highly successful full-length theatrical poetry shows.
Malika was chair of judges for The Forward Prize in 2016 and chair of judges for the international Manchester Poetry Prize. She’s a fellow of both The Complete Works and Cave Canem, as well as inaugural poet in Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company. She was a Douglas Caster Cultural Fellow in Creative Writing and LHRI Fellow at Leeds University and currently teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University. Malika is a founder of Mallika’s Poetry Kitchen collective that has nurtured many leading poets in the UK.
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