NO MORE DYING: A FRANK O’HARA MASTERCLASS

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NO MORE DYING: A FRANK O’HARA MASTERCLASS

precision, excess & everyday magic ✨

Length: 5x2 hour workshops (10 hours total)

Workshop Recording Date: January 2026

Facilitator: Sophie Robinson 

We shall have everything we want and there’ll be no more dying. This is the extravagant promise that Frank O’Hara makes to us at the beginning of his poem ‘Ode to Joy’, & the jumping off point at the deep end of NO MORE DYING. 

Across five workshops we’ll study and practice some of O’Hara’s distinctive stylistic &!formal choices — hyperbole, exclamation, irony, humour, code switching, confessionalism & abstraction, to name a few —  as pathways towards writing generously, directly, smartly and precisely.

Themes explored include:

• Everyday magic
• Intimacy and confession
• Gossip and the quotidian
• Immediacy and the present moment
• Original and striking imagery
• Camp, irony and code-switching

Workshop syllabus/themes

One: Time & Immediacy

Two: Confession & Intimacy

 Three: Art & Image

Four: Camp & Code

Five: Doubling, Magic & Ending

REDUX//RECORDINGS FROM THE DEVOTION WORKSHOP ARCHIVES

REDUX is your chance to dip into our archive of workshop recordings and purchase past courses at a lower rate to take in your own time.

Each workshop will take you through a series of writing prompts and allow you to write in “real” time along with live participants.

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SOPHIE ROBINSON is a poet, novelist, nonfiction writer and teacher. She is the author of Prairie Oyster (2026) and Rabbit (2018). Her writing has been published in Granta, The Guardian, Stylist, BOMB Magazine, The Believer, N+1, The Poetry Review and The White Review. 

Sophie founded Devotion in 2020 as a radical, inclusive and accessible creative writing workshop space. She was previously a full time assistant professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia for ten years, and has facilitated public creative writing workshops at the Tate, the V&A, the ICA, the British Library, Arvon, The Poetry Society, and The National Poetry Library.

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