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Why Understanding Music Can Improve Your Poetry Writing
As part of our Poetry Craft series, Tristram Fane Saunders discusses why understanding music can improve your poetry writing. In what ways can poetry be considered a form of music? Listen to a poem in a language that you cannot speak, and very often you’ll come away with a strong sense of the emotion behind…
Tristram Fane Saunders
Transreading Ethiopia with Chris Beckett
Selam hullu…..Hello everyone! I’ve already blogged about my boyhood in Addis Ababa as an intro for my autumn 2021 course on Childhood: A Source of Praise. So I don’t want to repeat too much of what I said then, but it feels like I’m travelling the same path again! It’s a really great feeling, because…
Chris Beckett
Soundtext Anthology
Soundtext was a course run in the Spring Term of 2020 for the Poetry School. The course sought to push the boundaries of possibility in terms of sound and text. Our hypothesis: what can an artist create when they approach text from the ends of sound, and sound from the ends of text? We have…
Antosh Wojcik