Strange Poetry Writing with John McAuliffe
Date:
22/06/2010
Times:
2-4pm
Prices:
£25 / £20 conc
Location:
Writers' Centre Norwich
Look at how we experience and employ strangeness in poems with John McAuliffe
Description
'McAuliffe's got the gift. Mark the name. His sure hand is apparent in every line.' — August Kleinzahle.
The beauty of poetry can lie in its strangeness.
So why not join the director of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing, John McAuliffe, in a workshop looking at how we experience and employ strangeness in poems.
John, winner of the RTE Poet of the Future Award, will focus on how you can use language as a way of re-orienting a reader. You’ll look at how poetry greats Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon tackle peculiarity in their work and then take that learning forward through set exercises.
You’ll be learning from the former programme director of Ireland's biggest poetry festival Poetry Now at Dun Laoghaire and a poet whose first collection, A Better Life (2002), was shortlisted for a Forward Prize.
Find out how strangeness can be your best friend by booking your place today.
Booking:
Call: 01603 877177 or email: info@writerscentrenorwich.org.uk
Read John’s poems online:
• http://www.thepoem.co.uk/limelight/mcauliffe.htm
• http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eire-ireland/v040/40.3mcauliffe.html
• https://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/online/2007/mcauliffe.html