Like humans, there are many ways a sonnet can be. A traditional form rooted in Petrarch and Shakespeare, the sonnet has endured, is deployed and questioned by every era of poets. Its fourteen-line form gives structure to feeling and teaches us what we can do without, yet its mastery, rigidity and prominence has proved problematic for numerous writers.

This fundraiser workshop will look modern and contemporary experiments in the ‘little song’ by a diverse range of poets including Bernadette Mayer, Diane Seuss and Nat Raha.

Tickets are £10 and all sales go toward  funding More Song, an innovative and experimental poetry reading series in Bradford.