Poetic Taste – a unique masterclass with Canterbury Laureate Patience Agbabi

Deco 5, Oxford Street
3pm to 5pm

Canterbury Laureate Patience Agbabi invites you to the table to explore the poetic palette/palate and stimulate sumptuous verses. Expert in poetic taste and technique, Patience will take you through the ingredients to create completely satisfying work.

If I didn’t write poems, I’d write about food. I’d be a restaurant critic for the Guardian and enjoy giving marks out of ten like 2.75 and 9.007. I’d move each morsel over different parts of my tongue - salt, sweet, bitter, sour - and find the right word for the sensation. But I’m a poet. I savour the shapes my tongue makes to form soundscapes. I like simple poems with choice ingredients: crisp rhythm, sparkling imagery, depth of emotion. What’s your poetic taste? Come along to find out.

Patience Agbabi

Admission free.

This is Patience’s keynote masterclass during the course of her Laureateship, so book early to avoid disappointment. Email [email protected] or call 01227 452853.