fourteen poems - July 16 Hetty Cliss

<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000">Inspired by poet Jacqueline Saphra, Hetty Cliss will guide participants through sonnet form as “a gift: free, beautiful and limitless in possibility.” In this workshop, we will examine the characteristics of the sonnet form, harnessing its power as a generator for new writing and a structure to give existing ideas shape. Using the works of Richard Scott, Marilyn Hacker, Diane Seuss, and Terrance Hayes, we will explore the magic of contemporary sonnets before turning our hand at writing our own sonnet or ‘sonnet-esque’ poems.</span></span></span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000">Hetty Cliss is a poet and spoken word artist from the Cambridgeshire Fens. Her debut pamphlet (In)Habit is out with fourteen poems - </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#242321">described</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#242321"><em> as ‘a</em></span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#242321"> raw and moving collection, charts the unraveling of a relationship steeped in coercion and control’. </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000">More of her work can be found in Seaford Review, Propel Magazine and </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><em>Bi+Lines An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry.</em></span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"> She was also the 2024 Ware Sonnet Prize winner.</span></span></span></p>

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