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Type: Workshop
Level: Open to all
Location: North West

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Date: Friday 20th Jul 2012
Time: 10am - 4pm
Cost:
Full cost:£57.00
60+:£45.00
Concs:£34.00

 

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Five Finger Exercises (Manchester Summer School)

This course will examine in detail the essential elements for writing effective poetry. Through a progressive sequence of short exercises, it will help students identify simple strategies for taking their writing from that initial draft towards finished work with genuine impact. It will focus on the various stages in the creative process including the stimulus behind a first draft (often mistakenly called Inspiration); and an analysis of the revision process. Although this course is aimed at beginner/ intermediate level writers, it would also be suitable for serious, dedicated writers at any stage of their development.

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John Glenday

John Glenday is the author of three collections. The Apple Ghost won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award, and Undark was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation (both Peterloo Poets). His most recent collection, Grain, was published by Picador in November 2009 and shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Prize for Excellence in New Poetry. 

 

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