Welcoming new and experienced poets, Maura Dooley will lead an inspiring workshop in which lines and phrases from Jane Austen’s novels and poems will be used as starting points for new work of our own.

Maura Dooley’s most recent collection of poetry is Five Fifty-Five (Bloodaxe). Anthologies she has edited include The Honey Gatherers: Love Poems and How Novelists Work. In 2016 she was Poet-in-Residence at Jane Austen’s House. Her own poems from the residency are published as A Quire of Paper . She also edited an anthology of poems by other contemporary poets responding to Austen’s work,  All My Important Nothings. In 2018 she published versions (with Elhum Shakerifa) of work by the exiled Iranian poet Azita Ghahreman, Negative of a Group Photograph (Bloodaxe) which received a PEN Translation Award. She has twice been short-listed for the T.S. Eliot Award and also for the Forward Single Poem Award. Her work has received an Eric Gregory Award and a Cholmondeley Award and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Details:
Date: Saturday 13 September
Times: 10.30am – 1pm
Location: This event is at Jane Austen’s House in Chawton. Find us
Tickets: £35

☕ This event includes refreshments, please let us know on booking if you have any dietary requirements.

🏠 This event includes House admission on this day only.

 This event is part of our Persuasion Festival, running from 12 – 21 September 2025