Look North Poetry Workshop - Dramatic Monologue: with Stephen Sexton

Name: Look North Poetry Workshop - Dramatic Monologue: with Stephen Sexton
Start: 2026-02-28T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-28T12:00:00+00:00
Location: Chichester Library

Schedule

Sat Feb 28 2026 at 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Chichester Library | Belfast, NI

Tickets: £10
This workshop will introduce participants to the dramatic monologue. In this most theatrical of genres, the poet’s voice is not their own. It is characters who speak and in speaking, reveal to us – their listeners – their desires, their secrets and in one mysterious case, how exactly they came across a recipe for “smooth, seedless gooseberry sorbet”.
In this workshop, we’ll consider examples of contemporary dramatic monologues and, following group discussion and writing prompts, go about writing our own.
Stephen Sexton is the author of two books of poems: If All the World and Love Were Young (2019), winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and Cheryl’s Destinies (2021). He teaches at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University, Belfast.