Places where we are inspire feelings of familiarity and belonging, entrapment and exile. Remembered or imagined places evoke ways of life we’ve lost or never had.

In this course we’ll look at how different poets have harnessed some of this power in their poetry. 

We’ll explore how we can incorporate their strategies into our own writing  and will workshop poems produced by members of the class. 

Poets we look at will include Eliot, Yeats and Larkin, Derek Mahon and Sarah Maguire, Baudelaire, Cavafy and Seferis and a range of younger contemporaries.

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