“What you find in the outside world is what’s escaped from your own inner world” Ted Hughes

You’ll consider whether writing comes from inside or outside the self, or whether it’s a conflation of both to varying degrees. Through writing exercises that will encourage you to go deeper into the self and allow you to travel beyond what’s familiar, together with your tutors and your fellow poets you’ll come to new ways to discover that potent place where the inner self meets the world.

Greta Stoddart’s four poetry books (Anvil, Bloodaxe) have won or been shortlisted for the Geoffrey Faber Memorial, Forward, Roehampton and Costa Awards. Her long radio poem Who’s there? was BBC Pick of the Week and shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award. In 2023 she won a Cholmondeley Award. She lives in Devon where she teaches for the Poetry School.

Shazea Quraishi is a Pakistani-born Canadian poet and translator based in London. Her poems have appeared in UK and US publications including most recently Mapping the Future: The Complete Works Poets (Bloodaxe Books, 2023), and Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic, U.S. 2023). Books include The Glimmer (Bloodaxe Books, 2022), The Taxidermist (Verve Poetry Press, 2020), The Art of Scratching (Bloodaxe Books, 2015), and The Courtesans Reply (flipped eye publishing, 2012). Shazea teaches with the Poetry School and runs Poetry Studio, a programme of writing workshops. She is a trustee of English PEN and an ongoing artist in residence with Living Words.

Guest: Glyn Maxwell

Dates: Monday 10 - Saturday 15 June 2024
Location: Totleigh Barton, Devon
Cost: £926 - £626.50

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