Urban vs Pastoral: When the City meets the Country with Tamar Yoseloff
Date:
17/03/2012
Times:
10am - 4pm
Prices:
£50 / £40 conc
Location:
Writers' Centre Norwich
Explore what happens to your poetry when the urban and pastoral collide with poet Tamar Yoseloff.
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Description
“These compressed and vivid poems have a mind and a music all their own. Tamar Yoseloff is emerging as one of the best poets of her generation.”
Thomas Lux
Does your writing thrive under the urban lights of city life, or do you prefer the pastoral in your poetry? What about a touch of both?
Book your place on this poetry workshop and discover what happens when both landscapes collide with the author of four collections and experienced tutor, Tamar Yoseloff.
About the workshop
Tamar will help you examine the grey area between the urban and the pastoral in poetry, and if the built environment can be celebrated in the same manner as the rural landscape.
You'll start with a discussion of William Wordsworth's 'Westminster Bridge', move to examples by contemporary poets, and then write an 'urban lyric' of your own.
About the tutor
“Tamar Yoseloff’s Fetch is a delicate book of haunting strength, of strangeness uncontained. These poems are irresistible.”
Alison Brackenbury
Tamar Yoseloff ‘s first collection,
Sweetheart (Slow Dancer Press, 1998) was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and the winner of the Aldeburgh Festival Prize. Her most recent book,
The City with Horns, was published by Salt in May this year. Tamar currently works as a freelance tutor in creative writing, working with creative organisations Spread The Word and The Poetry School.
Visit Tamar's website.
This workshop is sure to be popular. If you came to Tamar’s Nature Cure workshop in Cambridge last year, this will develop the work you produced then. If not, new students are equally welcome!
Level: Intermediate; those with writing under their belt looking to improve, share and learn.
This workshop is in collaboration with
The Poetry School.
Venue
This workshop will take place in the workshop room situated on the ground floor of the Writers’ Centre Norwich office, on 14 Princes Street.
The room provides an ideal environment for creative thinking and learning with plenty of space and natural light.
14 Princes Street is fully accessible. Please let us know if you have any access or other special requirements.
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