Poetry: Peter Sansom & Ann Sansom, Guest: Michael Longley

Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 14th Aug - Sat 19th Aug, 2017
5:00pm - 10:00am

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

An intensive but very enjoyable course of writing and reading with ‘the best poetry teachers in the world’ (The Guardian). Taking classic and contemporary poems as model and stimulus, we will create our own new pieces throughout the week. Writers are invited to submit two poems in advance to compare with work produced during the course, so as to discuss writing practice.

Peter Sansom’s collections include Selected Poems (Carcanet) and Writing Poems (Bloodaxe). Peter has been writer in residence with M&S and the Prudential, and taught at Leeds and Manchester Universities. Together with Anne, they co-direct the ACE-initiative Writing School for published poets and The Poetry Business.
www.poetrybusiness.co.uk

Ann Sansom’s publications include Romance and In Praise of Men & Other People. Ann has worked as a writer with First Direct Bank and has been Guest Poet at the Times Educational Supplement. She has taught poetry at Sheffield Hallam, Manchester Metropolitan and Oxford Universities.

Michael Longley is one of Ireland’s leading poets. His collections include Gorse Fires (1991) which won the Whitbread Poetry Award and The Weather in Japan (2000) which won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Hawthornden Prize. His Collected Poems was published in 2006 and A Hundred Doors won the Irish Times Poetry Now Award. In 2002 he was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, one of the rarest British honours for literary achievement. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of Aosdana. His latest collection The Stairwell won the Griffin International Prize. His eleventh collection Angel Hill will appear in June 2017.  He and his wife, the critic Edna Longley, live and work in Belfast

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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