Winchester Poetry Festival 2025
Mining The Classics: online workshop with Julia Copus
Classic poems can provide an exciting stimulus for new work, and open up new ways of thinking. Join award-winning poet Julia Copus for a playful and informative workshop exploring the various approaches that can be used to rethink, refresh and respond to the classics.
There’ll be examples from some of our most gifted poets and exercises to kindle new work – with a special focus on the cento, a patchwork of poem fragments whose use stretches back to Classical times themselves. Bring an open mind!
Julia Copus has published four collections of poetry. Girlhood (Faber 2019) was winner of America’s inaugural Derek Walcott Prize. She has tutored poetry courses for Oxford University and the Arvon Foundation, and currently teaches for the Faber Academy. Julia is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
This workshop will take place online only.
Suitable for: all
Duration: 2 hours (including short break)
Format: online
Access: subtitles available
