The Word of a Lie: Writing the Truth in Poems with Helen Mort and Jacob Polley
Date:
06/11/2010
Times:
9.30am Saturday, finishes 4.00pm on Sunday
Prices:
£80
Location:
The Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere
Join poets Helen Mort and Jacob Polley, who will explore 'poetic fictions': how poetry can do justice to reality through the unreal.
Description
To get to the poetic truth, it is not always necessary to tell the literal truth. Through a series of exercises and close-reading of published poems, poets Helen Mort and Jacob Polley will explore 'poetic fictions': how poetry can do justice to reality through the unreal.
The workshop will include:
• group sessions
• a one-to-one session with one of the tutors
• a tour of the Wordsworth Trust site with an introduction to the collection
• readings from both of the tutors
Helen Mort has published two pamphlet collections with tall-lighthouse press, most recently, A Pint for the Ghost, which was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. A previous winner of the Foyle Young Poets competition, she received an Eric Gregory Award in 2007 and won the Manchester Young Writer prize in 2008. She has performed her work at Latitude, the Ledbury Festival and StAnza, and has written a live literature show (also called a pint for the ghost) which will debut at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2010. Her first play Careless Torque was performed in Camden in 2009. She teaches creative writing for the Open University and is Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust.
Jacob Polley has published two collections of poetry with Picador, The Brink and Little Gods. He was selected as one of the Next Generation of British poets in 2004. In 2002 he won an Eric Gregory Award and the Radio 4 Arts Council ‘First Verse’ Award. His first novel, Talk of the Town, won the 2010 Somerset Maugham Award. He is a former Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust. He was Visiting Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, 2005-07 and is a hugely experienced poetry teacher.
Cost: £80.00 not including food and accommodation, payable in advance.
Optional evening meal on Saturday £17.00
Course starts 9.30am on Saturday, finishes 4.00pm on Sunday
Minimum number of participants required. Further information from Andrew Forster on A.Forster@wordsworth.org.uk or 015394 35544