Cumbrian Poetry Workshop Weekend
IMAGINATION-BASED POETRY WORKSHOP
WHEN? JULY 22-24 2011
WHO? CO-RUN BY NY POET GEORGE WALLACE AND UK POET GERALDINE GREEN
WHERE? AT MADDY PRIOR’S ‘’STONES BARN’’ – ROWELTOWN, CUMBRIA, UK
Stimulate your writing through exercises based on re-discovering and using your imaginative skills. Imagination-based poetry moves away from the traditional or confessionalist approach to writing poetry and, through magical realism, surrealism and fictive writing, permits the writer to create space for the imagination to explore, invent and roam. This workshop will encourage you to play with language. As well as producing new work, we will also spend time on feedback and editing, and host a poetry reading for course participants and tutors.
For more details contact Geraldine Green: Geraldinegreen1@aol.com
Programme:
Friday: Lunch at Stone Barns & Welcome!
Friday: 2-5pm (with coffee/tea break)
Workshop Exercises
Friday evening:
Reading by George & Geraldine
Saturday: 930-1230
Workshop Exercises
Saturday: 2-4pm
Group workshop: editing & polishing poems
(Participants are asked to bring with them 2-3 poems which they’d like to have workshopped by the group – those with no previously-written poems can have poems they’ve produced on the course workshopped instead)
Saturday evening:
Candlelit Dinner, with special guest and host at Stone Barns, Maddy Prior
Poetry Reading by the Group
Sunday morning: 10-12
One-to-one Tutorials
Lunch & Depart
Info on Tutors George Wallace and Geraldine Green can be found on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace_(poet)
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/english/profiles/Geraldine-Green/
Cost: £150 per person (excluding accommodation)
Min. 10 people (max.15/20)
Stones Barn Telephone Bookings or Queries +44 16977 48424 (8am-5pm UK time)
Stones BarnAddress Stones Barn, Roweltown, Cumbria. CA6 6LA
