Award-winning poet and author Michael Symmons Roberts will be in Germany this October to read from his work and lead workshops in Dresden, Frankfurt and Hamburg. Michael teaches poetry at the Manchester Writing School (Manchester Metropolitan University) and is currently programme leader for the MA in Creative Writing.

Michael Symmons Roberts will be reading from his poetry and from his most recent work, Edgelands, at 7 pm on the evening of October 26th (Literaturhaus Villa Augustin, Antonstraße 1).

In the morning of October 27th (9:20–12:40) he will give a workshop and you can apply to participate. This workshop will be held in Zeunerstraße 1c, 325.

You don’t have to be an experienced or published poet to take part. You can start from scratch here. This is a unique opportunity to work with an experienced mentor and practitioner and will give you a deeper understanding of the nuts and bolts of poetry.

Please send in your registration by October 20th to Robert Troschitz at Robert.Troschitz@mailbox.tu-dresden.de

You can also download a leaflet containing all the relevant information concerning this workshop via the following link. 

Further details will be published soon on this website.

About Michael Symmons Roberts

Michael Symmons Roberts has won the Whitbread Poetry Award and been shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the Forward Prize, and twice for the T.S. Eliot Prize.

His work as a librettist with composer James MacMillan has included choral commissions, song cycles, music theatre works and operas for the Royal Opera House, Scottish Opera, Boston Lyric Opera and Welsh National Opera.

Their WNO commission – ‘The Sacrifice’ – won the RPS Award for opera. His broadcast work includes ‘A Fearful Symmetry’ - for Radio 4 - which won the Sandford St Martin Prize, and ‘Last Words’ commissioned by Radio 4 to mark the first anniversary of 9/11.

His most recent book, Edgelands, written in collaboration with fellow poet Paul Farley, won the Jerwood Prize for non-fiction in 2010 and was broadcast as a BBC Book of the Week.

The edgelands are those desire paths you make when you take a short cut across the grass, they’re the old warehouses waiting for what comes next, the burned out car-wrecks on waste ground, the vacant lots being reclaimed by bushes, trees and flowers.

To find out more about Michael and Edgelands, have a look at his homepage .