Monthly seminar groups with Susan Wicks in Kent, featuring close reading, in-depth discussion and feedback on your poems-in-progress, as well as conversation around contemporary poetry and guidance on your next steps as a poet. Entry by application only.
With a maximum of eight students in each group, these seminars provide an intimate setting and generate supportive and critical friendships, helping you to become part of your local poetry community.
(Level: Advanced)
Entry into the seminars is by application only. If you would like to sign up, please contact the office for information and we will assist you in the application process.
Susan Wicks has published seven collections of poetry, four of them with Bloodaxe Books: The Months (2016), House of Tongues (2011), De-iced (2007) and Night Toad: New & Selected Poems (2003). She has also published three novels, The Key (Faber, 1997), Little Thing (Faber, 1998) and A Place to Stop (Salt, 2012), a short memoir, Driving My Father (Faber, 1995), and a collection of short fiction, Roll Up for the Arabian Derby(Bluechrome, 2008). Her two book-length translations of the French poet Valérie Rouzeau have between them won the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation from French and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize for Literary Translation. Born and raised in Kent, she lives in Tunbridge Wells, and is a freelance writer and translator.
Dates: Fridays, 21 September 2018 - 3 May 2019, 10am – 1pm (8 x monthly sessions in Susan’s home)
Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Cost: £240
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