Masterclass with Isabelle Baafi: the Age of Disenchantment

Bad Betty PressBad Betty is an award-winning independent publisher of new poetry, and curator of live literature events taking place across the UK.London-born, Nottingham-based, Bad Betty Press was set up in 2017 by Amy Acre and Jake Wild Hall with the aim of showcasing exciting and risk-taking poetry, supporting poets’ artistic development and celebrating stories less often told.

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Bad Betty masterclasses take place in the afternoon prior to each Bad Betty Live show, and offer a chance to work closely with one of the featured acts.About the workshop:The Age of Disenchantment: In this masterclass, participants will read poems that explore admiration and disillusionment in the postmodern, post-digital age. Drawing from works by Morgan Parker, Terrance Hayes, Ilya Kaminsky, Romeo Oriogun and others, we will analyse complex relationships in families, friendships, romantic relationships, communities and the parasocial sphere. Get ready to consider important questions about why we idolise the people we do, and what happens when we discover how fallible they really are.About the facilitator:Isabelle Baafi is the author of Chaotic Good (Faber &amp; Faber / Wesleyan University Press, 2025), which won the Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection and is shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her pamphlet Ripe (ignitionpress, 2020) won a Somerset Maugham Award and was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. She won First Prize in the Winchester Poetry Prize 2023 and Second Prize in the London Magazine Poetry Prize 2022. Her writing has been published in Granta, the TLS, The Poetry Review, Callaloo, The London Magazine and elsewhere. She edits at Poetry London and Magma.Venue &amp; access:This workshop takes place in the Learning Room at New Art Exchange (NAE). There is a lift and accessible toilets. The building is fitted with induction loops for enhanced sound. Disabled parking is available on request.<a href="https://www.nae.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/May-2023-Access-Statement-large-print.pdf" title="https://www.nae.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/May-2023-Access-Statement-large-print.pdf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Full accessibility info here.</a>New Art Exchange (NAE) is the UK’s largest gallery dedicated to contemporary visual arts from the Global Ethnic Majority. Based in Hyson Green, Nottingham, NAE champions inclusivity and equity in the creative industries, nurturing and celebrating talent from diverse backgrounds<a href="http://www.nae.org.uk/page/who-are-we/3" title="http://www.nae.org.uk/page/who-are-we/3" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> About Us page on our website</a>.About Bad Betty:Bad Betty Press is an award-winning independent poetry publisher, and curator of live literature events taking place across the UK. London-born, Nottingham-based, Bad Betty was set up in 2017 with the aim of showcasing risk-taking poetry, supporting poets’ artistic development and celebrating stories less often told. Bad Betty is a British Book Awards Small Press of the Year Finalist (2024, 2023), a Michael Marks Publishers' Award winner (2022), and the parent of pamphlet imprint, Little Betty.

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