Booking information

Duration: 10 weeks (five fortnightly sessions)

Type: Interactive Online Course
Level: Open to all
Location: Poetry School Online

Details

Start date: Thursday 4th Oct 2012

Session times: Thursdays, fortnightly, 7pm (UK Time)

Cost:

Full cost:£76.00
60+:£67.00
Concs:£60.00

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Experimental Sonnet Writing

The Sonnet has proved to be the most popular form of poetry over the last 500 years or so. The twentieth and twenty-fi rst century has seen the form reinvented time and time again in staggering ways which suggests there are no end to the possibilities it has to offer. On this course we will explore the form’s malleability and range. By reading a small amount of the key sonnets of modern and contemporary times, whilst considering the sonnet’s heritage, you will write your own 14 liners. Tasks will be based around sonnets written in the last hundred years or so (with a particular focus on the last fifty years). By the end of the course you will be inventing your own methods and processes and adding to this rich tradition. Students should have 5-10 of their own poems ready to work on which they are prepared to treat and manipulate; these need not be sonnets nor in any way complete.

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James Davies

James Davies is author of Plants, Acronyms and The Manual Handling Process. He works as editor of if p then q and was formerly editor of the cult poetry object Matchbox. He collaborates with photographer Simon Taylor as Joy as Tiresome Vandalism. In this guise they have two collections, most recently Absolute Elsewhere. In addition he is one of the organisers of The Other Room poetry night and website.