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Come along to our festival salon session, with poets Shazea Quraishi & Sophie Herxheimer in conversation with Folkestone’s Poets Corner.
Exploring the notion of Growing V Knowing from the poet’s perspective, the poets will share their creativity and writing practices, and the need for a poet to create within uncertainty.
Bloodaxe poet Shazea is interested in the idea of ‘Negative Capability', which Keats spoke of in reference to craft and art, as “being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without… reaching after fact and reason.” Her brand new pamphlet ‘The Taxidermist,’ explores process of creation, while playing with form and investigating the boundaries of poetry and prose. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT SHAZEA HERE.
Sophie Herxheimer is interested in the impulse and channelling needed to connect and birth both poetry and drawing. Sophie is a prolific artist, her work includes the award winning ‘Velkom To Inklandt’, ‘60 Lovers To Make and Do’ and ‘The Practical Visionary’. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT SOPHIE HERE.
Folkestone’s Poet’s Corner are Faith Warn, Dave Horn and Anthony B. Together they curate and organise poetry events across Folkestone, encouraging others to write, share and publish, as well as building up their own work.