Advanced poetry workshop
London
This weekly workshop is for people who are writing regularly, maybe working towards a pamphlet or collection, and/or have begun to have poems published in magazines, and would like to improve their work among a network of peers.
The group reads and discusses work by other poets both living and dead, English and foreign, in a variety of poetic styles and techniques. Recent sessions have covered different kinds of sonnets, found poems, poems about John Keats, ghost poems, a review of current poetry magazines and e-zines, and a reading of Ezra Pound's tenets of good poetry - followed by a reading of two poems by Pound, according to his own principles. In the spring term we'll be looking at the winner of the TS Eliot Prize, blank verse by John Milton and others, Wiliam Blake, different versions of the same poem, and more.
The workshop devotes half its time to critiquing one another's poems, developing a peer group of readers.
If you join the group it should help you develop and improve:
* ability to tell what's working and what isn't in a poem
* insights into your own work, with a view to increasing successes
* confidence in critical reading & analysis
* knowledge of contemporary poetry and poets
* knowledge of traditional poetic techniques and how these are applicable in contemporary writing
The workshop meets from 6.30-8.30pm Wednesdays for 11 sessions a term
upstairs at the Artillery Arms, Bunhill Row, London EC1
£135 a term
If you'd like to join, please send me up to four poems and a short description of what you hope to get out of the workshop.
Contact me for more information.
Mentoring
If you are unable to join the workshop or have more specific needs, I am happy to undertake personal mentoring and manuscript appraisal. Pease contact me for details.