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.