Tutored Retreat: Poetry Collection – John Glenday & Jen Hadfield, Guest: Anne MacLeod

Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 11th Jul - Sat 16th Jul, 2016
5:00pm - 10:00am

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

The Harvest

Transforming a body of work into a poetry collection can be playful, surprising and intensely creative. This is a course for poets who wish to focus on the different ways of editing – and growing – a collection from their body of work. During one to one tutorials, the tutors will advise on which poems to weed out, which to re-write, which poem to give the most weight – and how to do this. There will also be time for new poems to grow out of the evolving work. The week’s goal is to focus on the creative aspects of editing, and produce a balanced and cohesive collection, from first to last poem.

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.

Jen Hadfield held the Gavin Wallace Fellowship (Moniack Mhor & Creative Scotland) in 2015. She won the T.S.Eliot Prize in 2008 for her collection Nigh-No-Place. Her other collections are Byssus and Almanacs. Born in Sheffield, she is now settled in Shetland.

Anne MacLeod’s first collection Standing by Thistles won the Saltire Prize for best first book. Her second collection Just the Caravaggio has been internationally acclaimed. She also has two novels published, The Dark Ship and The Blue Moon Book.

 

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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