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Irish Writers Centre: Finding and Developing Imagery that Resonates: The Object Correlative with David McLoghlin
Wed 10 Sep 2025 to Wed 29 Oct 2025
The “Objective Correlative” (T.S. Eliot) is, quite simply, the ability to find in the “outside world” a signifier, or equivalent, for our inner human experience. For poets, typically, we see the Objective Correlative in the form of an image.
From the haiku poets, via the Imagists, to Plath and beyond, imagery has been continually identified as the engine of the poem. Some of the most significant poems employ “deep imagery” that resonates on more than one level, staying with us long after the poem is read. Finding imagery that conveys our deepest experience is at the centre of this course.
We will divide our time equally between craft and workshop. Each class will dedicate an hour to reading and discussing exemplary poems. The second hour will be dedicated to workshopping our own work. Depending on student numbers, we should be able to workshop one poem each per class.
David McLoghlin’s third collection, Crash Centre (Salmon Poetry, 2024) was shortlisted for the 2025 Pigott Prize in association with Listowel Writers Week. He was awarded a Katherine and Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship in 2023, and was selected as one of two poets to represent Ireland on the Versopolis EU poetry network. He has taught creative writing widely (both memoir and poetry, online and in person) in the community and in university settings, and offers writing advice on memoir and poetry manuscripts.
Dates: Wednesdays at 6.30 pm - 8.30 pm, 10 September - 29 October 2025
Location: Online
Cost: €275 (€247 Members)
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Additional Information:
Location:
Online
Region(s):
International
Price:
€275 (€247 Members)
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