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  • Sat 3/13/2010: What Does the Poem Need from the Poet? With Sean O’Brien
  • Sat 3/20/2010: Writing East Anglia with Jeremy Page
  • Sat 4/24/2010: Making Poems with Alan Jenkins
  • Tue 4/27/2010: Writing a Novel: Short Course with Rachel Hore
  • Wed 4/28/2010: Poetry Short Course with Michael Laskey

Form and Performance

With Tim Turnbull

Saturday 4 April | 11am – 5pm | £40

Forward prize nominee Tim Turnbull leads a workshop looking at how formal aspects of poetry relate to a performance/reading. Through a variety of practical exercises writers will consider the basics of metre, the use or absence of rhyme, and the impact of line length to see how traditional methods that may seem daunting can be used to improve performance. No previous knowledge is necessary.

Tim Turnbull

is the author of Stranded in Sub-Atomica (2005) and Caligula in Ice and other poems is due out on May 07th 2009. Es lebt!! is due out in Germany in March and a CD with Scarborough absurdists Mormonhead, Direct from the Rock Factory, to be released later in the year. In 2006 Turnbull was awarded the first Performance Poetry Fellowship by the Arts Foundation

Booking details:

Further details of the travel burseries are available on application. To book email info@writerscentrenorwich.org.uk or call 01603 877177.

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