Poetry workshop: John Glenday

Date/Time
Date(s) - Thu 16th Jun, 2016
4:30pm - 5:30pm

Location
Dingwall Community Library, Dingwall, , IV15 9LT

Poetry is all about making words memorable, and this workshop will offer ideas and tips for turning turn your poem into ‘a little machine for remembering itself’. Through discussion of examples and some fun exercises, John will provide you with the necessary tools and clockwork for building from scratch a poem that really works. Suitable for those new to writing, as well as those with some experience who are keen to improve their technique.

John Glenday was born in Dundee but now lives in the Scottish Highlands. His first collection, The Apple Ghost won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and his second, Undark, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His most recent collection, Grain (Picador, 2009) was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for both the Ted Hughes Award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize. A fourth collection will be published by Picador in September 2015.

Free to all Highland residents aged 14 – 25.

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