Join The Poetry Society for a workshop with Liz Berry exploring romance in verse beyond sentimentality or cliché. Guided by Liz, you will discover, read and write love poetry that can be a space of risk, intensity, awkwardness, devotion, grief, and joy. Drawing on examples from across poetic traditions, you’ll explore writing about love, loss and longing in all its many shapes and sizes, and be supported to write brand new love poems of your own with precision and emotional honesty.

Liz Berry is an award-winning poet and author of the critically acclaimed collections Black Country (Chatto, 2014); The Republic of Motherhood (Chatto, 2018); and The Home Child (Chatto, 2023), a novel in verse. Liz’s work, described as “a sooty soaring hymn to her native West Midlands” (Guardian), celebrates the landscape, history and dialect of the region. Liz has received the Somerset Maugham Award, Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, The Writers’ Prize and two Forward Prizes. Her poem ‘Homing’, a love poem for the language of the Black Country, is part of the GCSE English syllabus. Liz is a patron of Writing West Midlands and lives in Birmingham with her family. 

This workshop will take place on Zoom. You will receive the Zoom link the working day before the workshop. Please note that this workshop will be recorded. This workshop is intended for an adult audience.

Tickets are £17 for Poetry Society members and £27 for non-members.