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Freewriting

Public Group with 4 members

Freewritten verse both free and formal! ‘Freewriting’ is writing continuously for a set period of time without regard to spelling, grammar, or topic. It produces raw, often unusable material, but often helps writers overcome blocks of apathy and self-criticism. Use this group to upload your automatic efforts – there’s a good idea in there somewhere…

The Eerie

Private Course Group with 16 members

Group for Autumn Term Course 2019

Brief Encounters (Spring 2017)

Private Course Group with 11 members

A Campus group for students on ‘Brief Encounters’ with Kim Moore.

In these sessions we’ll look at what happens when a poem has an encounter at its heart. We’ll write about how we meet and experience people, animals, the natural world, the past and the future. There are the interactions that are instantly life-changing, or ones whose impact might not be fully understood until years later, or encounters which seem innocuous, but which we remember for years. We’ll look at how to turn this raw material into poetry and you will be given a series of prompts and exercises to explore different techniques, angles and approaches. You will produce and receive feedback on your own work, but we will also look closely at how other poets have written about their own encounters.

Transreading Spain (an International Course)

Private Course Group with 13 members

Transreading – reading across, against expectations, anew. Reading poems in English translation not only to encounter unfamiliar poetics and poets whose languages we may not know, but also to respond to their poems through our own writing. After visiting Central Europe in 2014 and Scandinavia in 2015, this autumn we’ll invite writers who may be associated with Spain, though they work in Galician, Basque and Catalan. For the first time we are teaming up with Arc Publications, renowned for their promotion of literary translation. We will ‘transread’ three Arc anthologies in the ‘New Voices from Europe and Beyond’ series: Six Basque Poets (2007), Six Catalan Poets (2013) and Six Galician Poets (planned for August 2016). Every fortnight we will experiment with transforming the originals we have read into our own original poems. No knowledge of Basque, Catalan or Galician is necessary. After all, to quote from the introduction to Six Basque Poets: ‘in the end writing, the act of ravelling and unravelling the world to make sense of it, is a continuous reassessment of frontiers’. During the course we will read a selection from the three anthologies; participants who wish to buy their own copies are entitled to 35% discount on each title. The books may be ordered through the Arc website: arcpublications.co.uk (special code will be issued; the website will calculate postage at cost, with UK orders post-free).