I’m really excited to announce that I’ll be running my annual Residential Poetry Course down in St Ives in 2018 with the fabulous Helen Mort as my co-tutor. The course will be running from 9th-14th April 2018, and I’ll be posting up details of the theme that we’ll be exploring during the week very soon, along with details of our guest poet, so watch this space. I’ve also just spoken to the hotel and they’ve already sold a quarter of the places, so if you would like to come, please contact the hotel (details below). If you’d like more details about the week, just get in touch.
The Unsaid: Poetry and breathing space
9th-14th April 2018
Tutors: Kim Moore and Helen Mort
Treloyhan Manor Hotel, Carbis Bay, Saint Ives TR26 2AL
£470
Includes breakfast, three course evening meals, accommodation, workshops and tutorials.
Please contact the hotel to book 01736 796240
What can poems say indirectly? What does the writer choose to leave out and why? Can silence be loud? How do successful poems use blank space? How do poets use repetition, interruption or distraction ? On this course, we’ll look at (and challenge) the power of ‘the unsaid’ in writing. There will be plenty of workshops and time to write your own poems, as well as opportunities for feedback on your work from the group, and a one-to-one tutorial with one of the tutors. There will also be readings from the tutors and a guest poet will perform mid-week. The course fee includes workshops, accommodation, breakfast, three course evening meals and a cream tea each day.
Course Timetable
Monday
4pm-6pm Workshop Kim/Helen
6.30 Evening Meal
8.30 (approx.) Poetry Reading. Bring a favourite poem by somebody else to share with the group
Tuesday
10-1 Workshop – Kim
Free afternoon
6.30pm Evening Meal
8.30pm Poetry Reading by the tutors
Wednesday
10-1 Workshop – Helen
Free afternoon – options for tutorials with one tutor
6.30pm – Evening Meal
8.30pm – Poetry Reading with Guest Poet
Thursday
10-1 – Workshop – Kim/Helen
Free afternoon – options for tutorials with one tutor
5-6– Critiquing poems in groups of four
6.30pm – Evening Meal
8.30pm – Workshop –Helen/Kim
Friday
10-1 – Critiquing Workshop – Kim/Helen
Free afternoon
6.30pm – Evening Meal
8.30pm – Reading by Course Participants
Saturday
Breakfast and finish.
Helen Mort has published two collections with Chatto & Windus, Division Street (2013) and No Map Could Show Them (2016). She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Manchester Writing School (MMU) and a former Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust. She also writes short stories, drama and fiction. In 2014, she won the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize for best first collection.
Kim Moore’s first collection The Art of Falling was published by Seren in 2015. A poem from this collection was shortlisted for the Forward Prize. Her first pamphlet If We Could Speak Like Wolves was a winner in the 2012 Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition and went on to be shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award and named in The Independent as a Book of the Year. She is one of five UK poets chosen to take part in Versopolis, a European funded project to bring the work of UK poets to an international audience. She is currently a PhD student at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Hi Kim I am interested in the residential in St Ives. Do you know what your theme or plan for it is yet please, Thanks, Rose Cook
http://www.rosecook.wordpress.com
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Hi Rose. Thanks for your message. We are currently working on the theme and the timetable and I should have details of these for you by the end of the week. If you want to email me via the contact page, I can send you them directly or you can just keep an eye out on here – whatever is easiest for you.
Reblogged this on Kim Moore and commented:
For those that have been asking, I’ve added a draft timetable for the week and the theme for the residential! Happy reading