A chapbook-length collaboration with four emerging poets, Lucy Cunningham, Ruby Lewis, Graeme Miller, Olivia Russell, with whom I ran an extra-curricular poetry workshop for 3 years.
Commissioned by Andreas Bülhoff for the second series of his experimental print-on-demand project, Sync.
From the Postscript:
"Teaching is strange. It happens in lots of different ways. The five authors in this little collection have experimented for nearly 3 years with the idea that 'the workshop' might be a context in which students and teachers take one another's creative work seriously. This 'what if...?' over-turning of the normal classroom dynamic is premised on reading together and listening. In our case, it's about paying attention, together, to language acts, and not worrying too much about who wrote what, as if the workshop were a productive echo chamber.
That echo chamber can become a space of the 'we'. It's full of imperfections and awkwardness, but through its commitment to serious sharing a writerly 'me' (the 'I') has a chance to emerge as a dynamic, inadequate, yet necessary and social voice. Here, those voices have been woven, in call-and-response to the four broken lines of the very short poem, 'How to Speak Myself Out of Myself' by Nick Thurston, which was first published in Try to Be Better, edited by Sam Buchan-Watts and Lavinia Singer and published by Prototype (London, 2019)."
