Events Calendar

  • 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

Not Just a Different Language

The third and final day of the salon brought to the fore another key issue for the creative writer, that of translation. The dominant creative writing courses of British and American universities attract a wide international student base, yet the focus, inevitably, is writing in English. As readers, we enrich our understanding of literature, [...]