Rhyme, Rhythm & Free Verse: developing your technique
Tutor: Greta Stoddart
Venue: Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter EX4 3LS
Day / Time: Mondays weekly, Reading and Writing alternate weeks, 6-8pm
Duration: 3 terms
Start Date/s: Reading: Oct 5 (no Oct 19 class), Jan 11, Apr 19. Writing: Oct 12, Jan 18, Apr 26
Price: £50 (£38 concs) per course, per term
Two courses, Reading and Writing, on alternate weeks; the former enriching the latter. You’ll read a range of poems together and discuss the ideas about sound, sense and form they suggest. In the Writing course, exercises and assignments on the themes of rhyme, metre and free verse; and some feedback on your work will help your writing develop. (If you prefer, you can choose to do only the Reading or only the Writing course).
Poems & Paintings
Tutor: Lawrence Sail
Venue: Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter EX4 3LS
Date: Saturday 10 October
Time: 10.30am-4.30pm
Price: £49 (£35 concs)
Can a poem do more than just describe a painting? Can a painting be more than a mere illustration of a poem? This workshop considers the relations between the verbal
and the visual in the context of specific poems and pictures, and considers how one might benefit and inform the other. You’ll be writing your own responses to two
pictures, one representational and one abstract.
Publishing your poetry
Tutor: Carrie Etter
Venue: Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter EX4 3LS
Date: Saturday 28 November
Time: 10.30am-4.30pm
Price: £49 (£35 concs)
Do you have poems which are ready for publication? This lively workshop covers the basics of submission to magazines and takes you through the process of
analyzing a magazine to determine its appropriateness for your own work. Please bring one copy of 10 of your poems, and a poetry magazine you like.
Identity
Tutor: Penelope Shuttle
Venue: Devon & Exeter Institution, 7 The Close, Exeter EX1 1EZ
Date: Saturday 6 February
Time: 10.30am-4.30pm
Price: £49 (£35 concs)
To adapt Wallace Stevens’ aphorism: the young poet is a god or a goddess, the old poet a tramp or a bag lady. Which are you? Or are you someone or something
completely other? Try on identities with Penny to see which ones fit – or feel like wearing your shoes on the wrong feet. You’ll explore the bridge of language between
outer reality and inner self, and examine ways of creating identity, and exploring it in others. Close reading, writing and feedback.
