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Free

19 Sep 2025

Bradford City Library

Language is a Queer Thing: Workshop

Parth Rahatekar

The emotional engine of writing explored

What drives a poem and what are we healing from?

In this intimate, generative workshop, poet Parth Rahatekar invited participants to explore the emotional engine of their writing. Together, they traced their poem’s “motive,” examine its turning point, and sharpened their poetic weapon: the question at its core.

There were writing prompts, reflection, and space to experiment as participants built a practice rooted in intention and clarity.

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BBC Contains Strong Language is a partnership between the BBC, Word Up North and Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture. It is supported by Arts Council England

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