A Poets for the Planet masterclass with Clare Shaw, Caleb Parkin, Rishi Dastidar and Jessica Mookherjee

Part of Milton Keys Lit Fest

MK Lit Fest have partnered with Poets for the Planet to present this unique event, where four of the UK's most exhilarating practising poets - Clare Shaw, Caleb Parkin, Rishi Dastidar and Jessica Mookherjee - will each present a masterclass that demonstrates their relationship to location and place, and how this is reflected in their poetry and their writing process and practices.

 All writing - even the most abstract - has a location at some level: what happens in stories and poems happens somewhere. In this event, we explore what happens when that geographic focus is narrowed: how do we as writers respond to and capture in our words the experience of specific places, our feelings about and for them, our history with them - or the future we hope to have with or for them? How do we imbue our writing with a sense that our feet have stood on this soil or walked along that pavement, that we have inhaled this breeze and its scents, that we have witnessed the flora and fauna - ourselves included - of this place.

This 90 minute event will include writing exercises and prompts, and you will have opportunities after the event to submit writing that it has inspired to Poets for the  Planet for sharing on their website and/or to MK Lit Fest's Raising Voices Project, which is developing an online interactive audio-visual map of people's responses to and relationships with particular locations across our home city.

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