Booking information

Duration: Six weekly sessions
Session dates: 5th Oct, 12th Oct, 19th Oct, (no class 26th Oct), 2nd Nov, 9th Nov and 16th Nov

Type: Course
Level: Open to all
Location: London

Details

Start date: Friday 5th Oct 2012

Session times: Six weekly sessions. Fridays, 6.45pm-8.45pm.

Cost:

Full cost:£82.00
60+:£70.00
Concs:£61.00

Face to face

Reading Contemporary American Poetry

This class will introduce you to seven American poets of the new generation: Timothy Donnelly, Nuar Alsadir, Jason Schneiderman, Katy Lederer, G.C. Waldrep, Dan Beachy-Quick and Sarah Manguso, linking them to writerly ancestors such as Wallace Stevens, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Theodore Roethke, Gertrude Stein, John Donne, Sappho, the New York School, LANGUAGE poetry and Confessionalism. Several of the poets have volunteered a personal statement about their work, predecessors and contemporaries: you’ll examine them to discover a unique insight into the current American poem.

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Tutor:

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Kathryn Maris

A New Yorker now based in London, Kathryn Maris is the author of a poetry collection The Book of Jobs. She has won many awards including a Pushcart Prize and an Academy of American Poets award, and her work has appeared in Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Guardian, Modern Poetry in Translation, The Harvard Review, and several anthologies including Women's Work and Dark Matter: Poems of Space. She teaches creative writing and literature and Morley College and Kingston University.

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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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