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A CAMPUS group for Poetry and Visual Art: Margate and London

This is a Campus group associated with Tamar Yoseloff’s Poetry & Visual Art courses, a place for course members to share work, resources and conversation.

Course description: Poets have long drawn inspiration from painters and sculptors; with the rise of a new generation of artists challenging traditional media, can we find in them a source for poems which push boundaries in a similar manner? Tamar will take you into gallery spaces to engage with contemporary art and to encourage new poems in response. You will also look at parallels between the gallery as a space for exhibition and
the page as a dynamic space for composition, and, based on the tutors’ own experience, will discuss the technicalities of artist / poet collaborations, publications and residencies.

Explore folklore and myth in your poetry.

Excavate from the language hoard of radical, underground and late modernist British poetry

Shape bold new poems under the mastery of the great sculptors

Going back-to-basics-and-beyond with the essential unit of poetry

Discover your sensuous side and write poems exploring the radiant materiality of interesting objects

Re-juvenate your poems with a bold, new wave of Chinese voices

What can poets learn from short fiction, and vice-versa?

Write against English, take it apart, and explode language altogether

Re-imagine Homer’s cast of Olympians, sea-monsters, Lotus Eaters and mere humans with Emily Wilson’s ground-breaking new translation

Choose love, write against brokenness and towards the idea of praise

Incorporate variability, instability, transformation, and change into your writing process

How do we write responsibly about our historical traumas?

Awaken the mysterious, divine power of rocks, rivers, birds, trees, ourselves

Put your poems on the anatomist’s slab and sing the body electric

Conquering the complex, elaborate, diabolical sestina

Be empowered to ‘make it new’ in writing about this most primal, universal force.

Tell, don’t show, with multiloquent new work

Explore the expansive modern tradition of British experimental poetry, as S J Fowler presents a necessarily idiosyncratic insight into the vibrant innovative poetries which have sought originality in the UK over the last 50 years. The sessions will explore the distinctive qualities of the British avant garde and chart a course through an enormous field of writing. Not formed by generation, region or faction, Vanguard explores characteristics that are possessed by, but in no way encompass, the work of many great British poets.