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Duration: 10 weeks per term
Type: Course
Level: Intermediate
Location: London

Term 1

Start date: Tuesday 4th Oct 2011
Session times: Tuesdays, 6.45-8.45pm
Cost:
Full cost:£125.00
60+:£100.00
Concs:£75.00

Term 2

Start date: Tuesday 10th Jan 2012
Session times: Tuesdays, 6.45-8.45pm
Cost:
Full cost:£125.00
60+:£100.00
Concs:£75.00

Term 3

Start date: Tuesday 24th Apr 2012
Session times: Tuesdays, 6.45-8.45pm
Cost:
Full cost:£125.00
60+:£100.00
Concs:£75.00

 

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Making Poetry 2011/2012

How are poems made? This course looks at how poems are put together using tools that include metre, rhythm, rhyme, imagery, tone of voice, rhetoric and diction. You’ll look at how stanzas, lines, sentences and words work together - taking in traditional forms and styles including sonnets, ballad form and narrative poetry, metaphysical poetry and blank verse; looking at how rhetorical devices work within poems to strengthen them, and how to get the most out of every word. There will be writing exercises but this is not a feedback class.

Tutor:

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Katy Evans-Bush

Katy Evans-Bush's first collection is Me and the Dead (Salt Publishing, 2008). Her pamphlet Oscar & Henry was published by Rack Press in January 2010, and her collection, Egg Printing Explained, is due out in spring 2011. She is the editor of the online literary magazine Horizon Review, runs the blog Baroque in Hackney, and writes reviews and essays in various publications. Find out more on her website.
 
What People Say
 
"[In] Katy Evans-Bush's impressive sequence... [her] sympathies appear to lie with James... but the wit and playfulness of this collection also acknowledge Wilde's more teasing way with the truth." - Andrew McCulloch, Times Literary Supplement
 
"Seriousness, a subtlety of line, an intelligent sense of uhumour and a seriousness about art" - Clare Pollard, book endorsement


"I couldn’t put it down! Very absorbing and satisfying at many levels." - Ian Duhig, book endorsement

"Her ironised yet romantic fatalism... is a model of edgy wit and restrained emotion." - John Stammers, book endorsement

 

 

 

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Access Information

The Poetry School has accessible parking with a front entrance drop-off point. The room used for classes is on ground level and there is adequate space for wheelchair users and an induction loop available upon request. There are fully equipped disabled toilets and an emergency assistance alarm is fitted. For further information please contact the office.


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