courses
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Happy new year, everyone! Sorry I’m a week behind the time in spreading the good wishes, but a felicitation is certainly better late than never. Anyway, on the writing front, the new year has certainly been well hanselled for me. I was surprised and delighted last week to see that Robert Peake had chosen me
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Ruth Padel’s Radio 4 programme “Poetry Workshop” is back for another series. I missed the first one in its entirety, and only noticed this evening when I wandered to the iplayer for “The Verb” that it was back for a second round. So I listened and enjoyed. I listened even more closely when I heard
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There’s only one place left on my Poetry School Online course and one more week before it goes live. The first live chat tutorial isn’t until 11 October, but there will be an assignment to complete before then. I’m looking forward to it and can’t wait to find out who’s signed up! If you’re interested,
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Good news for anyone who would have liked a space on my online Poetry School course on structure and form: apparently, it isn’t sold out. A technical glitch made some of last year’s students from another course appear to be enrolled, so there are still around eight spaces left. If you’re interested, simply go to
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The Poetry School has a fine new website and a new programme for the new season. I’m joining the school’s roster of tutors. It’s quite an honour and somewhat daunting, as it includes a good number of the finest, most distinctive poets writing in the UK, among them several of my fellow Salt authors. I’m
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Some kind of note on the Arvon course of a few weeks ago is certainly overdue. Matthew Hollis and Colette Bryce both gave useful and encouraging feedback and advice alongside interesting, stimulating workshop discussions and exercises. As the course was billed as being about working towards a collection, it is a tad irritating that they
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Just back home today from a few days with the in-laws either side of the course at Lumb Bank. A fine week, but more about that later. At the moment, I’m trying to apply my rather travel-weary mind to the fact that I have an interview for a place on the Scottish Book Trust‘s mentoring
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I’m off to a course with Matthew Hollis and Colette Bryce at the Lumb Bank Arvon centre tomorrow, so this online tongue will stop wagging for the next five or six days at least. Still, there’s a reasonably amount for you to enjoy in the virtual cupboard under the stairs. It should be a fun
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Helena Nelson, in her HappenStance guise, e-mailed me yesterday to let me know that, apart from the small handful of sale copies I have myself, Tonguefire is officially sold out! For all sorts of reasons, it feels good to have reached that landmark at this point. I’m in a good position to appreciate it at
Amy Jo Philip 