Ahead of our Dead [Women] Poets Seance and in collaboration with Dead [Women] Poets Society, come along to be inspired by the female writers who have come before you. Join the poetic conversation - and think about how to steal, allude, translate, remix, modernise and speak to the dead.

Clare Pollard, poet and author of Lives of the Female Poets, will run this warm, friendly poetry workshop with lots of exercises, ideas and prompts, and a particular focus on the spirits we'll be conjuring later that evening at our 's ance': Amy Levy and Christina Rossetti.

Clare Pollard's sixth collection of poetry with Bloodaxe is Lives of the Female Poets. Her poem 'Pollen' was shortlisted for the Forward Prize. She translated Ovid's Heroines for Bloodaxe, which she toured as a one-woman show. Her play The Weather was performed at the Royal Court Theatre, she wrote the non-fiction title Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children's Picture Books, her adult novels are Delphi and The Modern Fairies, which won the Tadeusz Bradecki Prize and her latest children's novel is The Othernauts.

Our events programme is presented in partnership with Hakluyt & Company, the global strategic advisory firm for businesses and investors.

You will receive a 65% discount on s ance tickets when you buy a ticket to the workshop. The s ance ticket will be offered to you when the workshop ticket is in your basket, and the discount will be applied at checkout. To book for the s ance alone, see listing.

This workshop takes place in person in the Study at the Library. Doors will open at 3.15pm for a 3.30pm start. Please see our Event Access Guidelines before you arrive.

Tea and coffee will be provided throughout and we will have pens and paper available but feel free to bring your own writing material.

Fee Required:
Standard Tickets: £37.10
London Library Member/under 30s/unwaged Tickets: £31.80