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Course 7

POETRY MASTERCLASS
July 21-26 • Gillian Clarke and Carol Ann Duffy
Guest: Imtias Dharker
Residential: £480 (single)  £420 (shared) 
Online booking is not possible for this course.

This is the opportunity for committed poets to move their writing up a gear alongside two of the most successful poets publishing today. This Masterclass will follow a similar pattern to a normal poetry course at Tŷ Newydd. Workshops will encourage discussion of work in progress and there will be ample time devoted to one-to-one tutorials. During the week the tutors will give a reading of their work and participants will contribute to an anthology and a celebratory reading on the Friday. In order that everyone can benefit from a high level of participation poets will be selected. See below.*

 

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF POEMS: April 1st, 2008



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GILLIAN CLARKE
is a poet, editor, playwright, writer-in-schools and occasional broadcaster. Her Collected Poems was published in 1997 and her most recent collection is Making the Beds for the Dead (Carcanet, 2004). Gillian is the National Poet of Wales, President of Tŷ Newydd and was Capital Poet for Cardiff in 2006. 

www.gillianclarke.co.uk

 
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CAROL ANN DUFFY
is a poet, editor and freelance writer. Her poetry collections include Mean Time (Anvil Press, 1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award and the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year), The World’s Wife (Anvil Press, 1999) and her most recent Rapture (Picador, 2005), which was a PBS Autumn Choice and won the T.S. Eliot Prize.

www.carolannduffy.co.uk

 
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* Details of how to apply for a place:

  1. Send 6 poems (via email or post) to Tŷ Newydd before April 1st.  Make sure that all your work has your name on it and is marked “Masterclass”
  2. Send any information regarding publication record (this is not essential)
  3. Please also let us know whether you would require a single or shared room - please note that we have only 8 single room places available
  4. If you are asking for a bursary please send in a bursary application form with your poems
  5. We will inform you by May 1st whether you have been selected. If you are selected you should then send in a booking form (from our programme or website) and a deposit/first instalment of £100 or the full amount

 

Poems will only be returned if accompanied by a sae. 

 

The selection will be made by Gillian Clarke and Carol Ann Duffy. Their decision is final.

     
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