In this writing workshop, Danish novelist and translator Caroline Albertine Minor invites participants to explore the addressed "you": the reader who may or may not have chosen to listen. Who is this "you", and how are it constructed and animated, and what does it do to the text?
The workshop works with texts that sit somewhere between letter, poem and notebook entry. Participants will ask whether a portrait is at best an elegant sleight of hand and at worst a kind of theft, and will draw on Iris Murdoch's idea that attention is a moral matter, asking whether we can truly see the person we think we love. Inspiration comes from Frank O'Hara, Sebastian Nathan, Edith Södergran, Forough Farrokhzad, James Schuyler and Patricia Cavalli, and the aim is to write in the territory between the intimate and the ecstatic.
Minor debuted in 2013 with the novel Pura vida and has since published a novella collection, a further novel and a poetry collection. Her most recent novel, Den forelskede ven, came out in June this year and is a kaleidoscopic study of a ten-year friendship that is intellectual and erotic.
