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

Term 1

Start date: Tuesday 18th Sep 2012
Session times: Tuesdays, 6.45 - 8.45pm
Cost:
Full cost:£129.00
60+:£117.00
Concs:£103.00

Term 2

Start date: Tuesday 5th Feb 2013
Session times: Tuesdays, 6.45 - 8.45pm
Cost:
Full cost:£129.00
60+:£117.00
Concs:£103.00

Term 3

Start date: Tuesday 7th May 2013
Session times: Tuesdays, 6.45 - 8.45pm
Cost:
Full cost:£129.00
60+:£117.00
Concs:£103.00

 

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Poetic Technique

How does a poem work? This course looks at how stanzas, lines, sentences and words fit together – using techniques that include metrics, rhythm, rhyme, imagery, and narrative structure. You’ll learn the difference between a dactyl and an amphibrach (no, they’re not extinct!). We’ll unpick how different kinds of poems work, including sonnets, sestinas, story poems, list poems, and lots of techniques from Anglo-Saxon alliterative poems up to Modernist and post-modernist ones. Students are encouraged to experiment with the techniques discussed, but this not primarily a feedback class.

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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.
 
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"Seriousness, a subtlety of line, an intelligent sense of uhumour and a seriousness about art" - Clare Pollard, 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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