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Duration: 10 weeks
Type: Course
Level: Open to all
Location: London
Level: Open to all
Location: London
Details
Start date: Thursday 20th Sep 2012
Session times: Thursdays, 6.45-8.45pm
Cost:
Full cost:£69.00
60+:£62.00
Concs:£55.00
60+:£62.00
Concs:£55.00
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Tutor Academy
Tutors: Emily Berry, Kayo Chingonyi, Imtiaz Dharker, Emma Hammond and Chrissy Williams
We don’t only teach poetry writing skills at the Poetry School. We help working poets extend their range too - hence this new course where experienced poets, new to teaching, try their wings in front of a class of helpful students. Emily will be working with letter poems, Kayo on poetry and music, Chrissy with poetry and comic books, Emma will ask you to challenge the declaration ‘Poetry is dead! Long live poetry!’ and Imtiaz will explore poetry, the film that runs in your head. Lots of great prompts for and feedback on your writing at half the price of our usual courses.
Emily Berry - letter poems
Frank O’Hara compared writing a poem to making a phone call. This course will look at poems written with another form of communication in mind – letters. What is a letter poem? Why write one? Why read one? Through close readings of poems alongside published letters, we will examine how the latter can correspond with and inspire the former, from brief ‘note’ poems, such as William Carlos Williams’ famous ‘This Is Just To Say’, to more conventional letter poems by a range of poets (and not forgetting ‘email’ poems). Bring in your own letter poems for workshopping in the second week.
Kayo Chingonyi - poetry and music
Across these two sessions participants will look at how recent British and American poets have responded to Walter Pater's suggestion that 'All art aspires towards the condition of music'. The focus will be on reading and writing poems which not only reflect on music but embody it in the treatment of a range of subjects. Reading material will be provided in the first session.
Imtiaz Dharker - poetry, the film that runs in your head
Wake up as a camera. Change your angle, magnification, your focus and depth of field to let the images sing. When you decide what to keep in the frame, what will lurk outside? Choose your soundtrack, your background music, your editing rhythm. These sessions will try to use the language of film to refresh your perceptions, to sharpen the language of your poem and offer practical ways to make it a moving, living thing.
Emma Hammond - poetry is dead, long live poetry
'There is a time to stop reading, there is a time to STOP trying to WRITE, there is a time to kick the whole bloated sensation of ART out on its whore-ass.' (Charles Bukowski). What if poetry made you jump up and dance? This course will look at how poetry is taught the way it is and why. You’ll be introduced to some cutting-edge experimental poetry and be inspired to write something entirely new and exciting. We will discuss ways of taking the ego out of poetry and consider where poetry is going next. Be prepared to not be bored to death.
Chrissy Williams - poetry and comic books
Are Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience comics? Is Neil Gaiman a poet? Who would win in a beard fight — Walt Whitman or Alan Moore? We'll be exploring the interaction between words and pictures using a variety of old and new examples. Rather than diminishing the poetic text, we'll look at how art is able to draw new and unexpected meanings from a text, either by working with or pushing against it. It's not about superheroes — it's about communication. Drawing skills not necessary, just a willingness to explore a new world of poetry comics!
20 September - Emily
27 September - Kayo
4th October - Emily
11th October - Kayo
18th October - Imtiaz
25th October - Emma
1st November - Imtiaz
8th November - Chrissy
15th November - Emma
22nd November - Chrissy
We don’t only teach poetry writing skills at the Poetry School. We help working poets extend their range too - hence this new course where experienced poets, new to teaching, try their wings in front of a class of helpful students. Emily will be working with letter poems, Kayo on poetry and music, Chrissy with poetry and comic books, Emma will ask you to challenge the declaration ‘Poetry is dead! Long live poetry!’ and Imtiaz will explore poetry, the film that runs in your head. Lots of great prompts for and feedback on your writing at half the price of our usual courses.
Emily Berry - letter poems
Frank O’Hara compared writing a poem to making a phone call. This course will look at poems written with another form of communication in mind – letters. What is a letter poem? Why write one? Why read one? Through close readings of poems alongside published letters, we will examine how the latter can correspond with and inspire the former, from brief ‘note’ poems, such as William Carlos Williams’ famous ‘This Is Just To Say’, to more conventional letter poems by a range of poets (and not forgetting ‘email’ poems). Bring in your own letter poems for workshopping in the second week.
Kayo Chingonyi - poetry and music
Across these two sessions participants will look at how recent British and American poets have responded to Walter Pater's suggestion that 'All art aspires towards the condition of music'. The focus will be on reading and writing poems which not only reflect on music but embody it in the treatment of a range of subjects. Reading material will be provided in the first session.
Imtiaz Dharker - poetry, the film that runs in your head
Wake up as a camera. Change your angle, magnification, your focus and depth of field to let the images sing. When you decide what to keep in the frame, what will lurk outside? Choose your soundtrack, your background music, your editing rhythm. These sessions will try to use the language of film to refresh your perceptions, to sharpen the language of your poem and offer practical ways to make it a moving, living thing.
Emma Hammond - poetry is dead, long live poetry
'There is a time to stop reading, there is a time to STOP trying to WRITE, there is a time to kick the whole bloated sensation of ART out on its whore-ass.' (Charles Bukowski). What if poetry made you jump up and dance? This course will look at how poetry is taught the way it is and why. You’ll be introduced to some cutting-edge experimental poetry and be inspired to write something entirely new and exciting. We will discuss ways of taking the ego out of poetry and consider where poetry is going next. Be prepared to not be bored to death.
Chrissy Williams - poetry and comic books
Are Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience comics? Is Neil Gaiman a poet? Who would win in a beard fight — Walt Whitman or Alan Moore? We'll be exploring the interaction between words and pictures using a variety of old and new examples. Rather than diminishing the poetic text, we'll look at how art is able to draw new and unexpected meanings from a text, either by working with or pushing against it. It's not about superheroes — it's about communication. Drawing skills not necessary, just a willingness to explore a new world of poetry comics!
20 September - Emily
27 September - Kayo
4th October - Emily
11th October - Kayo
18th October - Imtiaz
25th October - Emma
1st November - Imtiaz
8th November - Chrissy
15th November - Emma
22nd November - Chrissy
Tutor:
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Tutor Academy is a Poetry School initiative to allow poets to develop their teaching skills in a live class setting. Click the link on the right for details of the current poets involved. Emily Berry was an Eric Gregory Award winner in 2008. Her pamphlet collection, Stingray Fevers, is available from Tall-Lighthouse and she has a selection of poems in the forthcoming Bloodaxe anthology Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century, edited by James Byrne and Clare Pollard.
Her work has been widely published in magazines including Poetry Review, Ambit, Poetry London and The Manhattan Review. She has an MA in English Literature from Leeds University and an MA in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths College.
She lives in London, where she was born.
http://www.poetcasting.co.uk/?p=140
Kayo Chingonyi was born in Zambia in 1987 and came to the UK in 1993. He studied English Literature at The University of Sheffield where he completed an undergraduate dissertation on the work of Saul Williams and co-founded a poetry and music event series called Word Life.
His poems are published in City Lighthouse (Tall-Lighthouse, 2009), The Shuffle Anthology (Shuffle Press, 2009), Verbalized (British Council, 2010), Paradise By Night (Booth-Clibborn Editions 2010), Clinic II (Egg Box Publishing, 2011), The Best British Poetry 2011 (Salt Publishing, 2011) and The Salt Book of Younger Poets (Salt Publishing, 2011).
Chingonyi has performed his work across the UK at such venues and events as London Literature Festival, The Big Chill, Shakespeare’s Globe, Tate Britain, Tate Modern, The University of Bradford and Buckingham Palace and internationally at State Theatre of South Africa (Pretoria), New Space Theatre (Cape Town) and Museum Africa (Johannesburg).
As a creative writing tutor he has devised and delivered workshops for The National Theatre, London School of Economics, Royal Shakespeare Company, YMCA, Poetry Society and Apples and Snakes as well countless schools, youth centres and writer’s groups across the UK. As well as verse, Kayo leads workshops in collaborative practice, life writing, fiction, song lyrics and performance skills.
He is an emerging writer-in-residence at Kingston University and his first pamphlet of poems, Some Bright Elegance, is available from Salt Publishing.
http://kchingonyi.wordpress.com/bio/
Imtiaz Dharker calls herself a Scottish Muslim Calvinist, brought up in a Lahori household in Glasgow, working in Bombay. She is a poet, artist and documentary
film-maker and all her books, Purdah, Postcards from god, I speak for the devil and The terrorist at my table, include her own drawings. She now lives between India, London and Wales.
http://imtiazdharker.com/
Emma Hammond writes ... 'I have self-published some poetry books- 'softly softly catchy monkey' and 'Sleeveless errand'. My new book is 'tunth-sk' for Flipped Eye publishing, poems past and present.'
http://emmahammond.blogspot.co.uk/
Chrissy Williams lives in London, has had work in The Rialto, Horizon Review, Anon, Fuselit, Rising and Southbank Poetry and was included in The Rialto's Young Poets feature, S/S/Y/K/4 and in the anthology Best British Poetry 2011 (Salt). Her pamphlet The Jam Trap has just been published. She works on the Poetry Library's poetry magazine archive.
http://chrissywilliams.blogspot.co.uk/
Tutor Academy
Tutor Academy is a Poetry School initiative to allow poets to develop their teaching skills in a live class setting. Click the link on the right for details of the current poets involved. Emily Berry was an Eric Gregory Award winner in 2008. Her pamphlet collection, Stingray Fevers, is available from Tall-Lighthouse and she has a selection of poems in the forthcoming Bloodaxe anthology Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century, edited by James Byrne and Clare Pollard.
Her work has been widely published in magazines including Poetry Review, Ambit, Poetry London and The Manhattan Review. She has an MA in English Literature from Leeds University and an MA in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths College.
She lives in London, where she was born.
http://www.poetcasting.co.uk/?p=140
Kayo Chingonyi was born in Zambia in 1987 and came to the UK in 1993. He studied English Literature at The University of Sheffield where he completed an undergraduate dissertation on the work of Saul Williams and co-founded a poetry and music event series called Word Life.
His poems are published in City Lighthouse (Tall-Lighthouse, 2009), The Shuffle Anthology (Shuffle Press, 2009), Verbalized (British Council, 2010), Paradise By Night (Booth-Clibborn Editions 2010), Clinic II (Egg Box Publishing, 2011), The Best British Poetry 2011 (Salt Publishing, 2011) and The Salt Book of Younger Poets (Salt Publishing, 2011).
Chingonyi has performed his work across the UK at such venues and events as London Literature Festival, The Big Chill, Shakespeare’s Globe, Tate Britain, Tate Modern, The University of Bradford and Buckingham Palace and internationally at State Theatre of South Africa (Pretoria), New Space Theatre (Cape Town) and Museum Africa (Johannesburg).
As a creative writing tutor he has devised and delivered workshops for The National Theatre, London School of Economics, Royal Shakespeare Company, YMCA, Poetry Society and Apples and Snakes as well countless schools, youth centres and writer’s groups across the UK. As well as verse, Kayo leads workshops in collaborative practice, life writing, fiction, song lyrics and performance skills.
He is an emerging writer-in-residence at Kingston University and his first pamphlet of poems, Some Bright Elegance, is available from Salt Publishing.
http://kchingonyi.wordpress.com/bio/
Imtiaz Dharker calls herself a Scottish Muslim Calvinist, brought up in a Lahori household in Glasgow, working in Bombay. She is a poet, artist and documentary
film-maker and all her books, Purdah, Postcards from god, I speak for the devil and The terrorist at my table, include her own drawings. She now lives between India, London and Wales.
http://imtiazdharker.com/
Emma Hammond writes ... 'I have self-published some poetry books- 'softly softly catchy monkey' and 'Sleeveless errand'. My new book is 'tunth-sk' for Flipped Eye publishing, poems past and present.'
http://emmahammond.blogspot.co.uk/
Chrissy Williams lives in London, has had work in The Rialto, Horizon Review, Anon, Fuselit, Rising and Southbank Poetry and was included in The Rialto's Young Poets feature, S/S/Y/K/4 and in the anthology Best British Poetry 2011 (Salt). Her pamphlet The Jam Trap has just been published. She works on the Poetry Library's poetry magazine archive.
http://chrissywilliams.blogspot.co.uk/
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