The Erotic Life is a Burrowing Life: Paper Houses
Led by Phoenix Yemi

What does it mean for language to hold form?

As part of the Applied Poetics series, this intimate workshop explores the poem as object, spell, memory and portable shelter.

Through guided writing exercises and paper house-making, we'll experiment with text as object, considering how language can become something we inhabit, carry and return to. Together, we'll ask what happens when a poem leaves the page and begins to take physical form.

No previous writing experience is necessary. Just bring your curiosity, a willingness to make, and an openness to what language might become.

No previous writing experience is necessary. Just bring your curiosity, a willingness to dig, and whatever has been quietly following you.

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Phoenix Yemi is a Nigerian-British poet, artist, and curator whose work is dedicated to resistance through the erotic. Rooted in surrealist traditions of liberation, she works at the intersections of body and earth, desire and dissent, reimagining language to summon new ways of being. She has performed across London in spaces including Tate Modern, the Barbican, and the Serpentine. She writes A Worm Moon for Worms Magazine, and is the founder of Black Geographies.