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.

'Undo Me or Eat Me: A Workshop on Lines' with Oluwaseun Olayiwola (duration: 3 hours):

Lines are the building blocks of poems. 

How can these fleeting, patterned, and often skimmable units of time contain worlds upon worlds in a matter of three, maybe four feet? Four, five words? In this workshop we’ll work with a method of line generation and line revision that thematizes  Keatsian negative capability, and train our minds to sit with uncertainty and ambiguity, without an “irritable reaching after fact and reason.” If each line cannot “undo” the line it succeeds, then we’ll experiment with “eating” that line, absorbing it into its body in some way. We’ll explore different methods of undoing — imagistically, rhythmically, syntactically, tonally, visually, etc — and different ways to enact compressive force when lines “eat”other lines. We’ll read poets like Jorie Graham, George Oppen, Carl Phillips, Jay Wright, and Frank Bidart in this workshop that combines craft, erotics, and ambition. 

Oluwaseun (Seun) Olayiwola is a poet, critic, choreographer and performer based in London. He has been published by The Guardian, The Poetry Review, the Telegraph, the Times Literary Supplement and elsewhere. His debut collection, Strange Beach, was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) in 2025 and is forthcoming with Soft Skull Press (US).

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 4 May 2025. After this date it will no longer be accessible.