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The Fabric of Cringe … and how to avoid it. • Poetry School

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We’re a big fan of Judy Brown’s poetry – here she is reading from her Forward shortlisted Seren collection Loudness – so we are very pleased we’ve been able to tempt her to teach for us this Autumn. Jusy is interested in getting to the nub of how to successfully incorporate details of our modern lives – our technology, our work, our landscapes – into poetry, and on her new course, ‘Poetry and the Stuff of Modern Living’, she’d like to bring you along with her. Judy writes … ‘There are great new poems that could have been written 50 years ago – but what if you want to talk about your life exactly now? Jen Hadfield knows how, mixing nature poems with totally natural details of modern life. This is us: puffballs and lichen with choked-up freezers, answerphones and quadbikes. In ‘Byssus’, children on a walk, caught up ‘in a current of complaint / and omniscient / App-light’ eventually ‘crack […] open/ their phones like geodes.’ Hadfield has been quoted as saying she wants her poems to be

We’re a big fan of Judy Brown’s poetry – here she is reading from her Forward shortlisted Seren collection Loudness – so we are very pleased we’ve been able to tempt her to teach for us this Autumn. Jusy is interested in getting to the nub of how to successfully incorporate details of our modern lives – our technology, our work, our landscapes – into poetry, and on her new course, ‘Poetry and the Stuff of Modern Living’ , she’d like to bring you along with her. Judy writes … ‘There are great new poems that could have been written 50 years ago – but what if you want to t

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