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(One workshop to be chosen, and attended for f ive
mornings).
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| A. | Through Memory and Moment; a Pilgrimage, with Roselle Angwin : |
| On this poetry-journal journey, you are invited both to savour the quality of each day and what we bring to it, and to dip into the well of the past. Through bringing one of our five senses into awareness each day, we will take associations, love, losses, encounters with place and persons, as ways into writing - also our meetings throughout our life with the Other, whatever we conceive that to be. Please bring with you a special journal-type notebook, and, if you like, drawings, clippings, objects and/or significant photographs of places and people from your past | |
| B. | In Search of Style, with Mimi Khalvati : |
| Yeats in his Memoirs writes that "Books live almost entirely because of their style". What does he mean here by "style"? Is it possible to develop one's own style? Can we write in a variety of styles and still be distinctive? In these mornings together we shall explore such questions through writing, crafting and conversation, attempting to address the living and lasting qualities of poetry. | |
| C. | Moving Hearts and Minds with your Poetic Voice , with Hugo Williams: |
| Not so much slash and burn as hearts and minds. How to move on and develop your own peculiar direction. Reading suggestions; group exercises; new starts; courage to fail for the Greater Good. Through various tried and tested exercises we will ambush our abilities into making the (alarming) transition from the abstract to the particular. The abstract may seem safer, the particular may attract elements of fiction, but which is truer? | |
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Each afternoon Janis
Mackay is offering optional work in the Art of Speaking Poetry.
Alternatively, you may be glad of free space for walks, conversation
or individual writing.
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