Poetry Retreat with Tuition – Peter & Ann Sansom, Guests Jo Shapcott & John Burnside

Poetry Retreat with Tuition - Peter & Ann Sansom, Guests Jo Shapcott & John Burnside

Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 28th Sep - Sat 3rd Oct, 2015
12:00pm

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


Peter and Ann SansomThis is a retreat with a difference.  Writers will send a short portfolio of poems in advance for Ann and Peter to mark up as they would any of their list (‘real old fashioned editing – invaluable’ as Blake Morrison says).  There will also be (optional) writing workshops to generate new work which will then be discussed alongside the submitted poems in order to consider the writing and editing process.

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.

Guests:

John Burnside teaches at the University of St Andrews. His poetry collections include Black Cat Bone (2011), which won both the Forward and the T. S. Eliot Prize and, most recently, All One Breath ( 2014).

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 First Collection, the Forward Prize for Best Collection, a Costa Book Award for Of Mutability and the National Poetry Competition (twice). In 2011, Jo Shapcott was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.
www.joshapcott.com


Bookings

This course is now fully booked. Please contact us on info@moniackmhor.org.uk or 01463 741 675 to be added to the waiting list.


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