Good Form - Working With Poetry's Toolkit

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7 - 9pm 1st and 3rd Tuesdays January - June (roughly)

Meeting Room at the Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter

(Tuesdays 19 January, 2/16 February, 2/16/ 23 March, 20 Apr, 4/18 May, 1/15/ 22 June)

These 12 workshops will provide an introduction to - and opportunity to play with - a number of the most common techniques and tricks of poetry.

Arm yourself with a medley of poetic devices to lift your poetry to the next level, including:

Lineation, metre, form (cento, golden shovel, ghazal, haibun, pantoum, sestina, sonnet, villanelle), enjambment, caesura, rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, sybillance, personification, metaphor and simile.

The first hour will consist of discussion of a poetical form and related writing exercises; the second hour will consist of feedback as we workshop our own poems.

All welcome!

Matt Bryden is an experienced poet and tutor. His teaching work has been supported by the Arvon Foundation, the Poetry School, the Poetry Society and the George Orwell Foundation. His poetry has won the William Soutar prize, the Charroux Memoir prize and, in 2018, a Literature Matters Award from the Royal Society of Literature. His most recent publication, The Glassblower’s House, details fatherhood against a backdrop of personal catastrophe and was a winner of the Live Canon pamphlet prize 2023. He is a Royal Literary Fellow at the University of Plymouth.

£25 an evening drop in, £90 (in advance) for any 4 sessions

Cost includes handouts of materials