Poetry Workshop with Isobel Dixon
Date:
01/10/2011
Times:
10am - 4pm
Prices:
£50 / £40 conc
Location:
Writers' Centre Norwich
Take a dram of poetry inspiration in this workshop with South African poet, Isobel Dixon.
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Description
‘You end up liking the poet a lot after reading this book, which is too rare an event in poetry.’ David Morley on A Fold in the Map.
Is your poetry in need of a revitalised approach? Do you think your methods are becoming a tad sober?
Take a dram of poetry inspiration in this workshop with South African poet, Isobel Dixon.
About the workshop
With a clean slate in hand, Isobel will help you focus on a few separate exercises for leaping into the poem. Using simple devices and practises, including objects and images, we’re sure that you’ll be back in the flow in no time.
More workshop information to follow…
About the tutor
Isobel Dixon is a director of the Blake Friedmann Literary Agency where she represents writers from around the world. Her interests are wide-ranging and her clients' work includes literary fiction, young adult fiction, crime and thrillers, memoir, popular culture, biography, history and current affairs. Her clients have won all the major South African literary awards, and authors on her list have, among others, won the Caine Prize, Commonwealth and PEN Awards, the Barry Award and been shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, the Ondaatje Prize, the Author's Club First Book Award, and the Booker Prize.
Isobel was born and educated in South Africa, and in Edinburgh where she completed Masters degrees in English Literature and Applied Linguistics. She has translated novels from the Afrikaans and her debut poetry collection Weather Eye (Carapace, 2001) won the Sanlam and the Olive Schreiner Prizes in South Africa. Her second collection A Fold in the Map is published by Salt in the UK and Jacana in South Africa, with her new collection The Tempest Prognosticator published by Salt in the UK and Random Umuzi in South Africa.
She is a Frankfurt Book Fair Fellow and often gives workshops on creative writing and agenting and speaks on panels at literary events, to students and to writers' groups.
Book your place Level: Day course for intermediate/advanced poets looking to develop, share, discuss and explore new inspirations for their work.
VenueThis 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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