By using blackout poetry – meaning the exclusion of words from an existing text rather than inclusion – as a creative methodology, participants will have the chance to consider the following questions: What are the implications and the complications of blacking out parts of a written text? Can this process allow a closer engagement with the text? And how can we rethink the image-text relationship by applying this methodology? 

In preparation, participants will receive scanned copies of some short texts, which will be used during the session as the basis for creating blackout poems. Participants will require access to PowerPoint. 

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Third meeting: On Valéry

When:  Tuesday 23 May 2023, 17.30-19.00 BST 

Where: Online (via zoom)

Preparatory texts: 

-       Paul Valéry, “The Centenary of Photography”, in Classic Essays on Photography, edited by Alan Trachtenberg, notes by Amy Weinstein Meyers (New Haven, Conn.: Leete's Island Books, 1980), 191-198. 

-       Paul Valéry, “The Angel”, in The Idea of Perfection: The Poetry and Prose of Paul Valéry, Kindle Edition (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), 329-335. 

*The workshops are open to anyone based in the University of York or the University of Thessaly