Face to face

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft’ - H G Wells. While most writers will appreciate this passion, they’ll also understand there’s much more to editing than altering a draft, and that if a promising writer is to become a successful author, he or she must develop sound editorial skills. Together with the honing of individual poems, this course will approach the task of compiling a pamphlet manuscript for publication or pleasure, focusing on choosing poems that collect (and the ordering of them), and considering the possibilities offered by dedications, epigraphs, author biographies, notes and cover blurbs, with the aim of developing a collection with a strong and coherent identity.

Students must have a batch of 10 to 15 nearly complete poems for this course.