Listening to the City
John Wedgwood Clarke

• Saturday 21 June 2014, 10.00AM to 1.00pm
• Free admission
  Booking requiredyorkcuriouser1@gmail.com
• King's Manor, Exhibition Square (map)

Event details

John Wedgwood Clarke has spent the past six months exploring the yards, passages, snickets and ginnels of York. Concerned with the relationship between the way we move through the city and the way we read, he'll be getting you to mix up the two in this walking and writing workshop. Primarily focused on poetry and the prose poem/ short fiction, he'll be encouraging you to let the narrative of desire lines thwarted and satisfied, and the everyday accidental encounters, into your writing. He's particularly interested in the boundaries between the pure and impure, between the clean and the unclean, the licit and the illicit within the city walls, and the ways in which paths allow passage between the two.

This workshop will involve a 45-minute walk through narrow spaces and into hidden corners - come suitably prepared!