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Workshop: Poetry & Voice
led by Katherine Gallagher
Dates: 2011-2012, London
Saturdays, 1.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.:
22 October |
12 November |
10 December |
21 January |
18 February |
24 March |
28 April |
19 May |
16 June |
14 July |
Wanting to develop your poetry-skills, explore your poetry 'voice'?
This workshop offers ways into writing poetry. Writing-exercises and constructive feedback. Practical criticism of existing work.
The emphasis is on tuning into ourselves and the poem, its particular shapes and rhythms. For new and experienced writers. Please bring 12 copies of one poem for critique and feedback.
Katherine Gallagher is a widely-published poet and experienced poetry tutor. She has five full-length collections of poetry, including Tigers on the Silk Road (Arc Publications, 2000), Circus-Apprentice (Arc, 2006) and Carnival Edge: New & Selected Poems, published by Arc in April, 2010. From 2002 - 2008, she was Writers Inc Education Officer. Circus-Apprentice was selected as Book of the Month (March 2007) on the Poetry Kit (http://www.poetrykit.org).
Penelope Shuttle on Circus-Apprentice – ‘. . strong, resourceful and varied’
Patricia McCarthy (ed. Agenda) on Tigers on the Silk Road – ‘. . an impressive clarity and freshness of voice.’
Venue:
Torriano, 99 Torriano Ave., Kentish Town, NW5. Kentish Town Tube.
Cost per session: £18 (£14 conc.) per day.
Pre-bookings and further details:
- T: 0208 881 1418
- E: mail@katherine-gallagher.com
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Barnet Writers Workshop
led by Katherine Gallagher
at Friends' House, Leicester Street, East Barnet, London. EN5.
Dates: 2011-2012, London
Wednesdays: 1.00 - 4.00 p.m. -- Monthly
Ways into Writing. For new and experienced writers.
Dates of next workshops:
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12 October |
16 November |
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7 December |
18 January |
15 February |
14 March |
25 April |
16 May |
12 June |
11 July |
Cost per session: £12
Pre-bookings and further details:
Contact Katherine Gallagher
- T: 0208 881 1418
- E: mail@katherine-gallagher.com
N.B. PLEASE SEND ANY MAIL FOR ME TO MY PRIVATE ADDRESS:
49 Myddleton Road, Wood Green, London. N22 8LZ
AND NOT TO THE FRIENDS’ HOUSE.
Thanks.
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RESIDENTIAL WORKSHOP
Normandy
May 27 - 31 and June 3 - 7, 2012: Voices and Masks : two five-day poetry courses for 7 participants, with experienced tutor, Katherine Gallagher at Le Moulin, Normandie, France. . . .
Course Fees: £380 inclusive. Fees include accommodation, tuition, all meals from Saturday evening for the duration of the course, and until departure on the Friday. One day of the course (Tuesday) will be left free for an off-site outing, with a reading event that evening. Course participants will be involved in the choice of destination, eg Mont St. Michel, Bayeux, Granville.
The only additional costs are transfers to and from airports or ferry ports (maximum £30),
spending money for the free day; extra day, if needed: £30.
The Course: Katherine Gallagher welcomes new and experienced writers working towards a collection. There will be a strong emphasis on identifying and improving the personal skills of course participants, and individual tutorials will be arranged. With your booking, please include two poems that you feel are representative of your work, for possible discussion at your tutorial.
Group sessions in the morning will take place ion the open plan ground floor of the barn, with its long Norman dining table and comfortable seating area. Evening events will also be in the barn.
Please let us know if you have any specific accommodation needs. Otherwise, rooms will be allocated on a first come firstg served basis. All rooms have a writing desk and power points.
Voices and Masks are at the heart of risk and avoiding the predictable. We will look at ways of approaching personal experience to focus on turnabouts and transformations - letting go of the first person, presenting through other voices. Using 'example' poems, we will highlight oppositions and tensions to write poems that are illuminating, heartfelt, wry, ironic, polished and surprising, always with sympathetic criticism and constructive feedback.
Please complete your booking form and send it to us with your £50 deposit, cheque payable to Kay Cotton, with the balance payable on 1st May, 2012. Please email poems to Katherine : mail@katherine-gallagher.com
Accommodation: Course participants will stay on site, in La Grange, which has 7 bedrooms: 1 en-suite double bedroom on ground floor, easy access; 1 double and 2 singles, plus bathroom, in each of the two converted haylofts, extra shower-room downstairs.
There will be no need to share a room.
Katherine Gallagher (http://www.katherine-gallagher.com) is a widely-published prize-winning poet and experienced poetry tutor.
She has five full-length collections of poetry, the most recent the acclaimed Carnival Edge: New & Selected Poems (Arc Publications, 2010) declared Book of the Month on the Poetry Kit website. In 2008, she received a Foundation Award from the Society of Authors.
BOOKING DETAILS,
including transport: Kay Cotton and Sylvia Miles, Le Moulin, 50410 VILLEBAUDON, Normandy, France.
Tel: 0033 (0)233 592181
Email: moulin50410@hotmail.com
Dietary needs: please be explicit, we want you to enjoy your meals.
Website: http://www.lemoulin50410.eu
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