Workshops in 2023
Please note: Unless otherwise stated, face-to-face workshops run from 10.00am-4.00pm.
Online workshops run from 2.00pm-5.00pm.
The fee for in-person workshops is from £20-£50, depending on what you can afford.
The fee for online workshops is £15, concessions £10.
Bookings open about a month before each workshop. Please email Simon Millward to reserve a place. Payment should be made asap to confirm your booking. For payment details contact Tom Woodman.
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Please note: Unless otherwise stated, face-to-face workshops run from 10.00am-4.00pm.
Online workshops run from 2.00pm-5.00pm.
The fee for in-person workshops is from £20-£50, depending on what you can afford.
The fee for online workshops is £15, concessions £10.
Bookings open about a month before each workshop. Please email Simon Millward to reserve a place. Payment should be made asap to confirm your booking. For payment details contact Tom Woodman.
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Poetry in Time and Out with Rosie Jackson
Sunday 19th February 2023, 2.00-5.00 pm
Onine via Zoom
Time is happening in all sorts of ways… Greta Stoddart
only in time can the moment in the rose garden… be remembered.. Only through time is time conquered… history is a pattern of timeless moments. T.S. Eliot
We are all caught inside time, but poems can convey moments when time dissolves and gives way to something beyond, where ‘here and now cease to matter’. But what if we want to honour specific history and experience, whether personal or collective? If we anchor events in particular dates and times, do we run the risk of getting our poems stuck in the literal and prosaic, or can they also, while grounded in the human, intimate the timeless?
In this workshop we will explore such fascinating questions, reading lively contemporary examples from Chrissy Banks, Ian McMillan, Kim Moore, Frank O’Hara, Clare Pollard, Sharon Olds, Greta Stoddart, Janet Sutherland and others, and we will endeavour to stop the clocks with our own experiments and play with time lines.
Between now and the workshop, you might like to make a note of poems you encounter that play with specific time frames, or hunt out your own favourite poems on the theme of time, its shackles and transcendence.
Rosie Jackson is a poet and creative writing tutor recently moved to Devon after many years in Frome. She is on the team of Poetry Teignmouth and runs many workshops in UK and in Cortijo Romero, Spain. She enjoys collaborating with other writers, artists, film-makers and photographers.
Her most recent poetry collections are: Love Leans over the Table (Two Rivers Press, 2023), Light Makes it Easy (Indigo Dreams, 2022), Aloneness is a Many-headed Bird (with Dawn Gorman, Hedgehog Press, 2020), Two Girls and a Beehive: Poems about Stanley Spencer and Hilda Carline (co-written with Graham Burchell, Two Rivers Press, 2020). The Light Box (Cultured Llama, 2016). She won 1st prize Teignmouth 2021, 3rd Prize Kent and Sussex 2022, 1st prize Poetry Space 2019, 1st prize Wells 2018, 2nd prize Torbay 2018, 1st prize Stanley Spencer Competition 2017, other awards and is widely published in journals and anthologies. , www.rosiejackson.org.uk
The Lyric and Narrative with Julie-ann Rowell
Sunday 19th March 2023, 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm
Online via Zoom.
In this workshop we will be looking at the two essential forms of cohesion or ordering in poetry: the lyric and the narrative. They aspire to unity but are quite different in how they achieve this. We’ll examine both types, and how we can write a pure lyric poem, and a narrative poem without being too prosaic. In general, poems combine both aspects, and we’ll look at this too. How do your own poems fit within this spectrum and what direction would you like to take them in? We’ll look at poets such as Denise Riley and Robert Hayden among others. A writing exercise will be part of the session.
Julie-ann Rowell. I have been teaching poetry classes in Bristol for over fifteen years, I’ve also given a Moor Poets workshop before. I have an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University. Exposure, my fourth collection, was published in 2019, and I am currently at work on my fifth. The poem ‘Fata Morgana’ from Exposure was Highly Commended in the Forward Prize 2020/21. I was also Highly Commended in the Bridport Prize 2020. My first pamphlet Convergence (Brodie Press) won a Poetry Book Society Award.
Recognition and discovery with Lawrence Sail
Saturday 22nd April 2023, 10am – 4pm
St Andrew's Church Hall, Ashburton, TQ13 7DT
The writing of any poem is, in greater or lesser measure, a journey of discovery - but we learn also to recognise the territory of our own approach and ability. Considering the balance between these two elements can be a fruitful argument, to the benefit of the work in hand. The workshop begins by focusing on an Edward Thomas poem, then invites participants to consider their own work from these perspectives.
Lawrence Sail has published thirteen collections of poems, two books of essays and two volumes of memoirs, as well as editing a number of anthologies. He has been chairman of the Arvon Foundation and director of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. In 2003 he received a Cholmondeley Award for his poetry. His most recent publications are a collection of poems, Guises (Bloodaxe Books, 2020), and Accidentals (Impress Books, 2020) which combines memoir, essays and poems, and is illustrated by his daughter Erica Sail. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Sunday 19th February 2023, 2.00-5.00 pm
Onine via Zoom
Time is happening in all sorts of ways… Greta Stoddart
only in time can the moment in the rose garden… be remembered.. Only through time is time conquered… history is a pattern of timeless moments. T.S. Eliot
We are all caught inside time, but poems can convey moments when time dissolves and gives way to something beyond, where ‘here and now cease to matter’. But what if we want to honour specific history and experience, whether personal or collective? If we anchor events in particular dates and times, do we run the risk of getting our poems stuck in the literal and prosaic, or can they also, while grounded in the human, intimate the timeless?
In this workshop we will explore such fascinating questions, reading lively contemporary examples from Chrissy Banks, Ian McMillan, Kim Moore, Frank O’Hara, Clare Pollard, Sharon Olds, Greta Stoddart, Janet Sutherland and others, and we will endeavour to stop the clocks with our own experiments and play with time lines.
Between now and the workshop, you might like to make a note of poems you encounter that play with specific time frames, or hunt out your own favourite poems on the theme of time, its shackles and transcendence.
Rosie Jackson is a poet and creative writing tutor recently moved to Devon after many years in Frome. She is on the team of Poetry Teignmouth and runs many workshops in UK and in Cortijo Romero, Spain. She enjoys collaborating with other writers, artists, film-makers and photographers.
Her most recent poetry collections are: Love Leans over the Table (Two Rivers Press, 2023), Light Makes it Easy (Indigo Dreams, 2022), Aloneness is a Many-headed Bird (with Dawn Gorman, Hedgehog Press, 2020), Two Girls and a Beehive: Poems about Stanley Spencer and Hilda Carline (co-written with Graham Burchell, Two Rivers Press, 2020). The Light Box (Cultured Llama, 2016). She won 1st prize Teignmouth 2021, 3rd Prize Kent and Sussex 2022, 1st prize Poetry Space 2019, 1st prize Wells 2018, 2nd prize Torbay 2018, 1st prize Stanley Spencer Competition 2017, other awards and is widely published in journals and anthologies. , www.rosiejackson.org.uk
The Lyric and Narrative with Julie-ann Rowell
Sunday 19th March 2023, 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm
Online via Zoom.
In this workshop we will be looking at the two essential forms of cohesion or ordering in poetry: the lyric and the narrative. They aspire to unity but are quite different in how they achieve this. We’ll examine both types, and how we can write a pure lyric poem, and a narrative poem without being too prosaic. In general, poems combine both aspects, and we’ll look at this too. How do your own poems fit within this spectrum and what direction would you like to take them in? We’ll look at poets such as Denise Riley and Robert Hayden among others. A writing exercise will be part of the session.
Julie-ann Rowell. I have been teaching poetry classes in Bristol for over fifteen years, I’ve also given a Moor Poets workshop before. I have an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University. Exposure, my fourth collection, was published in 2019, and I am currently at work on my fifth. The poem ‘Fata Morgana’ from Exposure was Highly Commended in the Forward Prize 2020/21. I was also Highly Commended in the Bridport Prize 2020. My first pamphlet Convergence (Brodie Press) won a Poetry Book Society Award.
Recognition and discovery with Lawrence Sail
Saturday 22nd April 2023, 10am – 4pm
St Andrew's Church Hall, Ashburton, TQ13 7DT
The writing of any poem is, in greater or lesser measure, a journey of discovery - but we learn also to recognise the territory of our own approach and ability. Considering the balance between these two elements can be a fruitful argument, to the benefit of the work in hand. The workshop begins by focusing on an Edward Thomas poem, then invites participants to consider their own work from these perspectives.
Lawrence Sail has published thirteen collections of poems, two books of essays and two volumes of memoirs, as well as editing a number of anthologies. He has been chairman of the Arvon Foundation and director of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. In 2003 he received a Cholmondeley Award for his poetry. His most recent publications are a collection of poems, Guises (Bloodaxe Books, 2020), and Accidentals (Impress Books, 2020) which combines memoir, essays and poems, and is illustrated by his daughter Erica Sail. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
