4-week Online Poetry Workshop

All remote courses take place on Irish Standard Time (GMT)

Course Summary: The course is designed for emerging poets with some experience who would like to make new work and explore different approaches to writing, workshopping, editing and publishing. Duality is found everywhere, from nature to our daily experiences of joy and suffering. It creates many of the cycles of balance that are intrinsic to life. In this four-week course we’ll explore poems that encounter duality through the work of poets writing in Ireland and internationally, as well as through guided creative exercises. We’ll delve into discussion of the economy of language, and ways to find meaning and purpose in one’s poetry practice apart from what Derek Mahon dubbed ‘poe-biz’.

Course Outline: Over the four weeks we will collaborate on close readings of poems and discussion of a critical text or two, alongside individual work to generate fresh poems through…