Starting Out in Poetry: Jo Shapcott & Maura Dooley, Guest Jim Caruth

Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 12th Jun - Sat 17th Jun, 2017
5:00pm - 10:00am

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

Aimed at beginner poets, this course will stimulate fresh work and encourage you to share it. Bring your notebooks and writing tools to explore the many ways poetry brings ideas, stories and emotions to life. The tutors will suit the course to the individual needs of the participants. Come prepared to write, to be open to techniques and approaches old and new, and to have fun with language.

Jo Shapcott was born in London. Poems from her three award-winning collections are gathered in a selected poems, Her Book (2000). She has won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Collection, a Costa Book Award for Of Mutability and the National Poetry Competition twice. In 2012 she was awarded the Queen’s Medal for Poetry.
www.joshapcott.com

Maura Dooley’s most recent collection of poetry is The Silvering. Anthologies she has edited include The Honey Gatherers: Love Poems and How Novelists Work. In 2015 she was Poet-in-Residence at the Jane Austen House Museum, Chawton. Her poems from the residency are published as a pamphlet: A Quire of Paper. She has directed Literature festivals, worked with Jim Henson film and Performing Arts Labs and currently teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Jim Carruth has had six well received chapbook collections of poetry since Bovine Pastoral in 2004. His poetry has won numerous prizesand he was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson award in 2009. He is thechair of St Mungo’s Mirrorball and the artistic adviser at StAnza. He was appointed Glasgow poet laureate in July 2014. His first book Killochries came out in 2015 and was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Poetry book of the year and The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry and the Fenton Aldeburgh first collection prizes. His new collection Black Cart comes out in Spring 2017

 

On this course, tutors will read a sample of your work ahead of time to get a feel for your work. Details of how and when to submit this will be sent to you in the course notes upon booking.

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