Booking information

Duration: Five fortnightly sessions per term
Dates for Autumn 2011: 1st Oct, 15th Oct, 5th Nov, 19th Nov, 3rd Dec
Dates for Spring 2012: 14th Jan, 28th Jan, 4th Feb, 18th Feb, 3rd Mar

Type: Course
Level: Open to all
Location: North East

Term 1

Start date: Saturday 1st Oct 2011

Session times: Saturdays, fortnightly, 10.30am-12.30pm (see dates above)

Cost:

Full cost:£57.00
60+:£45.00
Concs:£34.00

Term 2

Start date: Saturday 14th Jan 2012

Session times: Saturdays, fortnightly, 10.30am-12.30pm

Cost:

Full cost:£57.00
60+:£45.00
Concs:£34.00

Face to face

*Spadework

In his ‘Detached Sentences on Gardening’ Ian Hamilton Finlay wrote ‘Gardening activity is of five kinds, namely, sowing, planting, fixing, placing, maintaining. In so far as gardening is an Art, all these may be taken under the one head, composing.’ Using this as our guide, we will consider the various ways the practice of poetry mirrors these horticultural processes, from the seed of an idea to feeding and weeding. A course of reading, writing and discussion for beginners and more experienced poets, green-fingered or ink-stained alike.

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Tutor:

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Linda France

LINDA FRANCE's five poetry collections include The Simultaneous Dress (2002) and The Toast of the Kit Cat Club (2005), a biography in verse of the 18th century traveller and writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. She also edited Sixty Women Poets (Bloodaxe 1993, PBS Special Commendation). Linda has a particular interest in cross-arts collaborations and has worked with visual artists and musicians on various projects. Her own writing reflects this in its concern with risk, a fascination with form and play.