Join Antosh Wojcik for an exploratory workshop on image – finding the right image for the poem, using imagery to ‘turn’ your line, your stanza, your verse and composing images which live or are experiential moments for both poet and reader.
Image making is principal in my writing practice – it’s often where I begin in composing the poem and often where the poem unlocks itself. We’ll read a couple of integral poems from Selima Hill and Kim Addonizio, have some fun with existing images and do some exercises to hone our images in our poems. This workshop is for the curious - open to all writers at any stages in their journey!
[PLEASE NOTE: This workshop starts promptly at 11.45am, please arrive a few minutes before to get yourself situated and to avoid missing the beginning of the session]
About Antosh
Antosh Wojcik is a poet, drummer, and sound designer. His work explores memory, heritage, labour, time & the destabilisation of these things. He is a co-founder of Sleepwalker Studios, a Dorset-based production company and has received film commissions from BFI Network, The Lottery Heritage Fund, Arts and Culture University of Exeter and Natural England. He wrote the screenplay for ‘The Memory Boom’ (dir. Xenia Glen), which premiered at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024 in the Rebels With A Cause competition category. His poems are published in bath magg, Action, Spectacle and Anthropocene. His debut poetry collection, Suburban Locust, is forthcoming from Bad Betty Press in Autumn 2025.
“Like James Tate, but drunk.” -Roger Robinson
About Bad Betty
Bad 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. We believe strongly in art’s capacity to challenge its own definition, to curve away from the norm, making space for more and varied voices. When an author joins our list, we engage creatively, ambitiously and supportively with their work: including close collaboration on editing and design, and a commitment to helping books find their readers through live and online performance. Bad Betty won the Michael Marks Publisher’s Award in 2022, and was a regional finalist for the British Book Awards Small Press of the Year in 2023 and 2024. Our books have won or been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Michael Marks Award, the Laurel Prize, Polari First Book Prize and BAMB Readers’ Award, featured in the Guardian‘s Best Recent Poetry, and selected as a Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and several times as Pamphlet Choice. See all books. We’re grateful for the support of Arts Council England.
About DPF
Often referred to as DPF, Derby Poetry Festival is a four-day poetry and literature festival held in the centre of Derby in the autumn. We are dedicated to developing new writing talent in Derby and bringing excellent work to the city.
Previous headliners include Linton Kwesi Johnson, Joelle Taylor and Shivanee Ramlochan.
We host a range of performances, workshops, slams, and panel discussions for all ages in partnership with many venues in the city. Recently, DPF was unsuccessful in our most recent funding round, and we are currently crowdfunding to cover our year-round activity, which includes DYWG, Adult Workshops, Poetry Competitions, and wellbeing activities.
We're extremely grateful for any donations to our crowdfunder, which can be found here:
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-derby-poetry-festival
You may also like the following events from Derby Poetry Festival:
- Next Thursday, 18th September, 06:00 pm, The Year of Cooperatives: Writing Workshop in Belper
- Next month, 2nd October, 03:00 pm, DPF 2025: National Poetry Day Workshop with Desree in Derby
- Next month, 2nd October, 07:00 pm, DPF 2025: DPF x Bad Betty Live feat. Agata Maslowska, Antosh Wojcik & Desree in Derby
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Arts events in Derby,
Literary Art events in Derby,
Workshops in Derby.
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