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Course 19

POETRY FROM NOWHERE: HOW TO CREATE WHEN YOUR HEAD IS EMPTY
November 8-13 Tiffany Atkinson
and Peter Finch
Guest: Ira Lightman

Residential: £525 (single); £450 (shared) 

Is it possible to create poetry from thin air?  How does life reprocessed become verse?  When the muse won’t visit what do you do?  Finch and Atkinson explore a range of techniques available to the determined poet.  Nothing is impossible.  Poetry is there waiting to be grabbed.  A week of creativity, fun and furious invention. 

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TIFFANY ATKINSON is a lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University, and she gives regular readings and poetry workshops across England and Wales. She was winner of the Ottakar’s and Faber National Poetry Competition (2000) and the Cardiff Academi International Poetry Competition (2001). Her poems are published widely in journals and anthologies, and her first collection, Kink and Particle (Seren, 2006) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex New Writers’ Award, and winner of the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Award (2007). Her second collection is forthcoming from Bloodaxe in 2010.

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PETER FINCH is a poet, short story writer and literary entrepreneur who lives in Cardiff.  After publishing more than thirty books his work is collected in Selected Later poems (Seren 2008) and Zen Cymru (Seren 2010).  He is author of the idiosyncratic psychogeographies, Real Cardiff (series) and edits the series of guides to the conurbations of Wales and beyond that they have spawned.  He is a well known experimenter and platform performer who works as much in new as he does in traditional forms. www.peterfinch.co.uk

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Residential: £525 (single) - deposit of £100 will be taken
Residential: £450 (shared) - deposit of £100 will be taken
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