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Duration: five fortnightly sessions
Session dates: 17th Sep, 1st Oct, 15th Oct, 29th Oct, 26th Nov
Type: Course
Level: Open to all
Location: South West

Details

Start date: Monday 17th Sep 2012
Session times: Mondays fortnightly, 7-9pm
Cost:
Full cost:£63.00
60+:£54.00
Concs:£47.00

 

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Pan-American Poetry Tour

Tired of these stiff, Old Country ways? Join us for a pan-American road trip as we dip into the Great American Songbook. Running on a bi-weekly basis this course will take the poems of Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Elizabeth Bishop, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara, Grace Paley, Maya Angelou, Mark Doty and Sharon Olds amongst other American Greats as our roadmap and guide. We’re looking for inspiration, craft and some good old-fashioned rulebreaking, so loosen your stays and let’s hit the road.

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Fiona Benson

 

Fiona Benson is an Anglo-Scottish writer currently living in Exeter with her husband James. She was educated at Trinity College Oxford and then St Andrews University, where she completed the MLitt in Creative Writing and a PhD on Ophelia as a dramatic type in early modern drama. She received an Eric Gregory award in 2006 and is working on her first book of poems.

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