WALKSHOP: This Wilderness with Martin Kennedy Yates
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham, B4 7XG
Sunday 11th October 2026
Join poet Martin Kennedy Yates as he walks you through the pages of This Wilderness – his rich reworking of T.S. Eliot’s seminal poem
of place The Waste Land, transposed to the weirded landscape of Digbeth. Bringing the poem’s variety of moods, attitudes, visions and voices to life, the poet journeys to the locations that inspired and informed them, evoking the narratives of this unique territory through poetry prompts and writing suggestions specifically geared towards those who want to write their own place-inspired pieces.
Sponsored by Birmingham City University.
of place The Waste Land, transposed to the weirded landscape of Digbeth. Bringing the poem’s variety of moods, attitudes, visions and voices to life, the poet journeys to the locations that inspired and informed them, evoking the narratives of this unique territory through poetry prompts and writing suggestions specifically geared towards those who want to write their own place-inspired pieces.
Sponsored by Birmingham City University.
