The English language is beautifully musical. Robert Frost called sound in poetry ‘the gold in the ore’. In this workshop we will examine the sonic properties of vowels and consonants and how to use them effectively to enhance the meaning of a poem and add dramatic and emotional depth.

‘I for one can barely tell where I trail off and you begin, since human beings are reported to be 98 percent duct tape and feathers anyway, ‘ says James Tate.

Dive into the surreal, beyond the realistic or currently imaginable to find new truths, to shake out the everyday and all its assumptions – that’s what Caroline Bird’s often wonderfully surreal writing and her inspiring workshops do, and it’s what we need more of as we re-invent ourselves in the 2020s Anthropocene.