22 April,
Poetry / Workshop /
Isabelle Baafi: Advanced Poetry Workshop: Writing Against Logic
Wednesday, 22 April 2026, 6:00pm
Online Event / €45
Book NowGet ready for a time of discovery and invention as we explore poem-worlds with strange happenings and even stranger rules. In this workshop we will read, discuss and write poems that draw from dreams, memories, semiotics and the visual arts, and feature sound poetry, paradoxes, wordplay and literary nonsense. We will play with syntax, form, logic and allusion to unpack poetry’s capacity for offering subversion and catharsis. Together, we will create new work in an atmosphere of adventure, risk, truth-telling and play, in order to push the bounds of possibility.
Isabelle is the author of Chaotic Good (Faber & Faber / Wesleyan University Press, 2025), which won the Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and is longlisted for the Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize. Her pamphlet Ripe (ignitionpress, 2020) won a Somerset Maugham Award and was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. She won the Winchester Poetry Prize 2023 and has been published in Granta, the TLS, The Poetry Review, Callaloo, The London Magazine and elsewhere. She edits at Poetry London and Magma.
