AI and Poetry: Don Paterson and Joey Connolly in Coversation
Wed 01 Jul
|Webinar
In this webinar, Don Paterson and Joey Connolly will discuss the role of AI in the future of poetry. Is it just the latest manifestation of a much older story? Are we headed for a future where human-made poems might be viewed as artisanal objects? What will it mean for AI to write a ‘good poem’?
Time & Location
01 Jul 2026, 19:00 – 21:00 BST
Webinar
About the event
Joey Connolly grew up in Sheffield and now lives in Belfast. His first collection of poems, Long Pass, was published by Carcanet in 2017, and was followed by The Recycling (a Telegraph poetry book of the year) in May 2023. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 2012.
Read Joey Connolly’s NSP Guest Post on our Substack: ‘Metrics: Machine-Tooling a New Human Poetry’
In this online conversation, Don Paterson and Joey Connolly will discuss the many current controversies around AI and poetry. AI is part of a much older story of algorithms shaping both culture and politics. It raises old questions that poets have always asked: what is a person? What creates us? What is a poet? What is ‘good’? So much of the rhetoric around the impact of AI on poetry has been negative: AI steals work from writers and unhelpfully blurs ideas of originality and authorship. Poets, however, have always used technologies…
Schedule
1 hourRESCHEDULED - Heaney: A Style Guide
Tickets
General Admission
£15.00
+£0.38 ticket service fee
Concession
If you can’t afford the full workshop/webinar fee, just pay the concessionary rate. If you can afford the full fee, please pay it, as it will allow us to offer completely free places in the future.
£12.00
+£0.30 ticket service fee
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£0.00