Fact into Poetry

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With Helen Ivory Saturday 27th February 2010¦10am – 5pm¦Writers’ Centre Norwich, 14 Princes Street, Norwich¦£50 / £40 conc. [caption id="attachment_1325" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Helen Ivory. Photography: Martin Figura"][/caption] How important are facts in a poem? How far can you take an idea before it’s fully realised? This workshop explores the process of changing fact into art. Bloodaxe published and Eric Gregory award winning poet Helen Ivory will lead participants, looking at aspects of the self, the metaphorical truth and how facts can be manipulated creatively to make poems. Helen Ivory was born in Luton in 1969 but has lived in Norwich for nearly 20 years. She has worked behind bars, on building sites and with 2000 free range hens. She studied art at Foundation level and has a Cultural Studies Degree from Norwich School of Art and Design. In 1999 she won a major Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors for a collection of then unpublished poems. In 2005 she was given an Arts Council Writer’s Award. She has two collections of poetry with Bloodaxe Books The Double Life of Clocks (2002) and The Dog in the Sky (2006) and her third, The Breakfast Machine is due in 2010. She has taught creative writing for Continuing Education at UEA for nine years and has been Academic Director there for four. She also teaches on Norwich University College of the Arts’ BA in Creative Writing and MA Writing the Visual.  She is an Editor for the Poetry Archive, a judge for the PBS Pamphlet Choice, and a tutor for the Arvon Foundation.  She is currently studying for a PhD in Creative and Critical writing at UEA. Booking details: To book email info@writerscentrenorwich.org.uk or call 01603 877177. Back to Poetry workshops