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Duration: one day workshop

Type: Workshop
Level: Open to all
Location: London

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Date: Saturday 10th Nov 2012

Time: 10.30-4.30pm

Cost:

Full cost:£69.00
60+:£59.00
Concs:£51.00

Face to face

Reading the Japanese

A day for readers and writers of poetry. We start with a 4th-century empress’s beautiful lyrics and centuries of folk poems bristling with myth and history, discover Japanese poetry’s most consummate voices, and open Japan’s miraculous first anthology, the Man’yoshu, one of whose star turns, Princess Nukada, singlehandedly revolutionised the nation’s poetry by her authentic individual voice. Through fifteen hundred prolific years, we explore why Japanese poets prefer autumn, how the haiku was perfected by Basho, and what gave Japan’s poets such power over 20th-century America and the poetry of Pound, Creeley and Amy Lowell.

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Graham Fawcett

Graham Fawcett is a poetry teacher, and a writer and broadcaster on literature and music. Radio programmes include a play, a verse translation of Dante's La Vita Nuova, and features on The Divine Comedy, the Kalevala, Berio and Sanguineti, Venice, Pastoral Poetry, the teaching of creative writing in the US, and Chekhov. He lectures on poetry in Britain, Italy and Spain, translates from Italian and French, and has taught translation at Goldsmiths College for many years. He was co-editor of The Poetry School's second anthology, Entering the Tapestry (Enitharmon, 2003) and is President of the T S Eliot ( UK) Society.

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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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