Once you have purchased the Playback, a link and password to the session recording on our Vimeo page will be emailed to you (from press@outspokenldn.com) after the session has taken place.

Please note that the password-protected recording will be available to watch for a limited duration of three weeks from the date of the workshop. After this date the video will no longer be available to access.

The Green Fuse: Writing Flowers with Pascale Petit:

How do poets and visual artists depict flowers? The Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang made sky gardens from fireworks. Can we talk to a rose as Mei-mei Berssenbrugge does in her book Hello, the Roses? If a poet imagines the rose answering back, as Berssenbrugge and Jo Shapcott do in their sequences, what might it say? Van Gogh’s sunflowers seem to bloom forever, while Ai Weiwei filled Tate Modern’s turbine hall with fired sunflower seeds. Anselm Kiefer painted canvases with ‘mute’ meadows and Monet’s waterlilies look as if they have just burst from buds. What creature pollinates a giant waterlily in the Amazon? Does it help to imagine it as an abused woman, as the rainforest is rased? Does metaphor help us understand ephemeral and endangered blossoms as bees are disappearing? In this workshop we’ll journey through the floral kingdom, reading inspiring poems and looking at images of artworks to guide us into writing playful in-depth poems about flowers and their strange sex lives.

Purchase link

Once you purchase this item, and after the workshop has taken place, you will be emailed (from press@outspokenldn.com) a link and password to the video recording of the workshop on our Vimeo page. This password-protected video will remain available for viewing for a limited duration of three weeks from the date of the workshop: until Sunday 16 March 2025. After this date it will no longer be accessible.