Body Poetics

A five-week course with Christiana Aliu. Monday evenings 6.30 - 8.30 p.m. 5th October - 2nd November 2026. Booking will close on Friday 2nd October 2025 at 12 noon. Due to limited resources, we are UNABLE TO ACCEPT LATE BOOKINGS after this date. This course will be held in Room 2G 03 of the Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee. Monday evenings 6.30 - 8.30 p.m. for five weeks, 5th October - 2nd November 2026. Body Poetics Writing the Body, Identity and the Politics of Being Human What stories does the body carry? In this creative writing course, participants will explore how the body shapes identity and experience, and how poetry can give language to the stories we carry within us. Through poetry readings, discussion, and guided writing exercises, participants will examine themes such as memory, gender expectations, sexuality, identities, social stereotypes, trauma, body transformation, and belonging. Open to writers of all levels, the course offers a supportive and inclusive space to experiment with voice, imagery, and expression while transforming personal experience into powerful creative work. By the end of the course, participants will have developed new creative skills and produced original pieces exploring the body as a site of memory, identity, and expression. Come prepared to reflect, challenge assumptions, and write with courage. Sessions respect inclusivity and diverse lived experiences. Tutor: Christiana Aliu Christiana Aliu is a passionate writer and an MLitt graduate in English Studies and Literature from the University of Dundee. With a growing body of published work, she is the author of two poetry pamphlets, and her poems have been featured in the Black in White Community Collection, The Sun Review (Reader's Selection), and an American anthology—where she was first published at the age of sixteen. Christiana brings a deep love for language, a sharp editorial eye, and a commitment to inclusive creativity. Course code: 10 109 Enquiries should be sent to: [email protected] As a volunteer organisation with limited resources, we try to respond to all queries as quickly as possible. Please bear with us.