Workshops in 2024
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 £25-£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 Terry Dyson.
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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 £25-£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 Terry Dyson.
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Innovative forms – found, lost and rediscovered
with Janet Sutherland
Saturday 3rd August, 10.30 - 4.30
Broadhempston Village Hall
This workshop aims to look at some poems which use innovative approaches and to draft our own poems using them. We'll be looking at what value the form has in how we approach the poem. Does stepping outside of conventional forms have benefits, e.g. bringing new energy into our writing and steering us away from concentrating on the areas we usually inhabit and making us more flexible as a writer? There will be handouts of poems by Anne Carson, Ocean Vuong, Lucy Hamilton, Carrie Arizona and Mary Ruefle.
'Absolutely brilliant' - Rosie Jackson
Janet Sutherland is the author of five collections, most recently The Messenger House (Shearsman Books, 2023). Her previous collections are Home Farm (2019), Bone Monkey (2014), Hangman’s Acre (2009) and Burning the Heartwood (2006). Her poems are widely anthologised and published in magazines such as New Statesman, The Spectator and The North. A critical essay on the poet Charles Reznikoff appeared as an afterword to two new editions of his work, Holocaust. She won the 2017 Kent and Sussex Poetry Prize and received a Hawthornden Fellowship for 2018. She has an MA in American Poetry and lives in Lewes, East Sussex. https://www.janetsutherland.co.uk/
Workshop with Chris Waters
Saturday 21xt September
Full details to follow.
with Janet Sutherland
Saturday 3rd August, 10.30 - 4.30
Broadhempston Village Hall
This workshop aims to look at some poems which use innovative approaches and to draft our own poems using them. We'll be looking at what value the form has in how we approach the poem. Does stepping outside of conventional forms have benefits, e.g. bringing new energy into our writing and steering us away from concentrating on the areas we usually inhabit and making us more flexible as a writer? There will be handouts of poems by Anne Carson, Ocean Vuong, Lucy Hamilton, Carrie Arizona and Mary Ruefle.
'Absolutely brilliant' - Rosie Jackson
Janet Sutherland is the author of five collections, most recently The Messenger House (Shearsman Books, 2023). Her previous collections are Home Farm (2019), Bone Monkey (2014), Hangman’s Acre (2009) and Burning the Heartwood (2006). Her poems are widely anthologised and published in magazines such as New Statesman, The Spectator and The North. A critical essay on the poet Charles Reznikoff appeared as an afterword to two new editions of his work, Holocaust. She won the 2017 Kent and Sussex Poetry Prize and received a Hawthornden Fellowship for 2018. She has an MA in American Poetry and lives in Lewes, East Sussex. https://www.janetsutherland.co.uk/
Workshop with Chris Waters
Saturday 21xt September
Full details to follow.