Hyperfocus - Ekphrasis (Rachael Allen & Lucy Mercer - October 2026)

£250.00

Duration: 4 weeks
Dates: 6–27 October 2026
Tutors: Rachael Allen, Lucy Mercer
Workshops: Tuesdays, 7–9pm UK (online)

Ekphrasis means using the description of a work of visual art as a literary device, or can also mean just writing about images. What is a text and what is an image, and are poems a type of image? What kinds of strategies and approaches can poets use when they draw on or reference images or works of visual art in their poems? How does a poem change how we interpret and perceive images? Join Rachael Allen and Lucy Mercer as they lead workshops that look at the relation of poems to images; from poems about art, to writing about ways of seeing, to concrete poems, and more.

NEW! Instalment payments available – select Klarna at Checkout.

Full T&Cs of registration can be found here.

Duration: 4 weeks
Dates: 6–27 October 2026
Tutors: Rachael Allen, Lucy Mercer
Workshops: Tuesdays, 7–9pm UK (online)

Ekphrasis means using the description of a work of visual art as a literary device, or can also mean just writing about images. What is a text and what is an image, and are poems a type of image? What kinds of strategies and approaches can poets use when they draw on or reference images or works of visual art in their poems? How does a poem change how we interpret and perceive images? Join Rachael Allen and Lucy Mercer as they lead workshops that look at the relation of poems to images; from poems about art, to writing about ways of seeing, to concrete poems, and more.

NEW! Instalment payments available – select Klarna at Checkout.

Full T&Cs of registration can be found here.