Poetry – Christine De Luca, Guest: MiKo Berry

Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 16th May - Sat 21st May, 2016
5:00pm - 10:00am

Location
Moniack Mhor, Kiltarlity, Inverness-shire , IV4 7HT

‘Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass,’ said Chekov.

On this poetry course, you’ll have opportunities to improve on poems you’re working on as well as be challenged to write fresh new poems.  You’ll be encouraged to think what makes a poem work at more than one level.  All levels of experience welcome. It is suggested you bring a few poems you’re still working on and one or two you feel are finished.

Christine de Luca will lead the majority of workshops on this course with John Glenday running one workshop and one-to-one sessions with each participant one afternoon.

Christine de Luca is Edinburgh’s Makar, and one the foremost contemporary poets in Scotland. She writes in both English and Shetlandic. She won the Shetland Literary Prize with her first collection Voes and Sounds. Her collection Dat Trickster’s Son was short-listed for the Michael Marks Poetry Prize. www.christinedeluca.co.uk

John Glenday’s most recent collection Grain was short-listed for the Ted Hughes Award and the Griffin International Prize, as well as being a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His first collection The Apple Ghost won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award, and his second, Undark, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His fourth book, The Golden Mean, was published in 2015.

MiKo Berry is Scottish Poetry Slam Champion and recently took 4th place in the World Championships in Paris. He is also the founder of the poets’ collective Loud Poets. His flair for combining the finest literary technique with consumate stage savvy ensures his kudos as a poet and a performer.

Please note: due to circumstances outwith our control the advertised tutors on this course have changed.

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