* Poetry in Grasmere
Josephine Dickinson and Jeremy Over
St Oswald’s Church, Grasmere
Tuesday 25th August 6.45pm
Book on 015394 35544
£7.00 (£6.00 advance payment)
Our poetry season has a Cumbrian flavour. Jeremy Over launches his new collection ‘Deceiving Wild Creatures’. Jeremy Over’s new collections takes the naturalist Gilbert White as it’s starting point but Jeremy’s poems are surreal, witty and imaginative. His reading will take the audience in all kinds of unexpected directions.
Much of Josephine’s work has centred on the Cumbrian hill farm where she lives. Her new collection ‘Night Journey’ is concerned with transformation, much of it a journey through grief. Josephine is a haunting reader of her own work and this promises to be another hugely memorable evening.
*Dove Cottage Poets
with Emma Jones
Next meeting Friday 28th August 2.30pm
The Lower Rotunda, The Jerwood Centre
Writers at all levels of experience have an opportunity to look at the way poems work and get started on their own.
Free but booking essential
Book on 013594 35544
*Friday 6th – Sunday 8th November
The World in the Image
A residential weekend course with the Wordsworth Trust
with Emma Jones & Jacob Polley
Forest Side Hotel, Grasmere, Cumbria
This residential weekend offers an opportunity for participants to focus on a particular aspect of writing poetry while spending a weekend in the heart of the Lake District, the landscape that so inspired Wordsworth. Through a balance of reading and writing exercises, participants will look at how a poem creates an enclosed world through its images.
The weekend will also include a one-to-one session with one of the tutors for each of the participants, an introduction to the Wordsworth Trust collection and a reading by each of the tutors on the Saturday evening.
Participants will be resident in the Forest Side Hotel, a traditional stately home situated on the Lower slopes of Butter Crag, a short stroll away from Dove Cottage, home of Wordsworth when he wrote much of what is now regarded as his greatest poetry. Activities will take place at the Forest Side and in the Jerwood Centre at the Wordsworth Museum.
The course will run from 5.00pm on Friday to 3.00pm on Sunday and the price includes all tuition, accommodation and all meals.
Cost £285.00
Deposit of £100.00 secures a place
Balance of £185.00 due by 1st October.
Minimum number of participants required by 1st September.
Emma Jones was born in Sydney. Her first collection of poems, The Striped World, was published by Faber & Faber in 2009. She is editing a selection of Christina Rossetti’s poetry for Faber & Faber. She is currently Poet in residence at the Wordsworth Trust.
Jacob Polley was born in Carlisle. He has published two collections of poetry with Picador, The Brink and Little Gods. He was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize for The Brink. He has just published his first novel ‘The Talk of the Town’. He is a former Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust and is an Advisor to the Trust’s Literature programme.
*Other literature events in Cumbria
(I have a particular interest in next month’s A Poem and a Pint’!)
A Poem and a Pint
Saturday 12th September 2009
7.30 pm
The Malt Kiln, Bardsea, nr Ulverston
Featuring special guest poet: : Andrew Forster
Floor spots available for six local poets to read (apply at the door) Live Music from Fitz
MC Ross Baxter
Entrance: £4.00 £3.00 concessions (Pay at the door)Please note that there is no bar at this venue – please bring your own refreshments.
For more complete info. go to: http://www.apoemandapint.co.uk
Future Poem and a Pint Guest Poets will include:
November 14th – Clare Shaw at Forum 28, Barrow in Furness.
More complete information will be available on: www.apoemandapint.co.uk
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