Mondo: The Global Avant Garde

Start date: Thursday 5th Nov 2015 Session times: Thursdays, 6.45 – 8.45pm, weekly. 5 sessions.

Explore a world of avant-garde poetry movements in SJ Fowler’s company and discover how their remarkable explorations in the written word often compliment, rather than antagonise, more formal writing practice. Over 5 sessions, 5 global avant-garde poetic movements will be used as references to springboard you into new writing techniques, stressing the possibility amidst the history. Covering five different movements of the post-war period, in five different nations, this course – with the energy, dynamism and invention of the writing it explores – will enrich anyone’s poetry horizons. Steven will organise a post-course reading for students on this course. See more at The Poetry School site.

The Sonnet in Modern Times

The Sonnet in Modern Times

Tutor: James Davies

Location: Manchester

Venue: Friends’ Meeting House

Day / Time: Thursdays 7 – 9pm

Duration: 5 weeks

Start Date: 26 April

Price: £63, £50, £38

Level: intermediate

The Sonnet has proved to be the most popular form of poetry over the last 500 years or so. The twentieth and twenty-first century has seen the form reinvented time and time again in staggering ways which suggests there are no end to the possibilities it has to offer. On this course we will explore the form’s malleability and range. By reading the key sonnets of modern and contemporary times, whilst considering the sonnet’s heritage, you will imagine new ways of writing your own 14 liners.

This and other courses are available in the Poetry School’s Summer 2012 programme.

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