POETRY

What next?

You’ve poems in magazines, a pamphlet maybe, even a book – and you’re wondering how to proceed. How do we broaden our range and let in more of the world? Powered by close readings of inspirational contemporary poems, and experimenting with different subjects, alternative styles and new formal challenges, this course will both build on your achievements and initiate fresh directions.

Single room: £595
Shared room: £545
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Start Date:
Monday, 22nd November 2010

End Date:
Saturday, 27th November 2010
Tutors
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Michael Laskey

Michael Laskey founded the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival and has co-edited the poetry magazine Smiths Knoll since 1991. His latest collection is The Man Alone: New & Selected Poems (2008). www.michael-laskey.co.uk

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Sinead Morrissey

Sinead Morrissey’s collections include The State of the Prisons (PBS Recommendation, 2005) and Through the Square Window (PBS Choice, 2009). In 2007 she won the UK National Poetry Competition.

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Dennis O'Driscoll

Dennis O’Driscoll’s publications include eight books of poems; volumes of essays; and Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney.

This course is based at:

Lumb Bank - The Ted Hughes Arvon Centre

Heptonstall, Hebden Bridge
West Yorkshire
HX7 6DF

Tel: 01422 843714
Fax: 01422 843714
Email: lumbbank@arvonfoundation.org
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