Explore how the Unconscious can inform our writing, as we break from narrative logic and delve into dreams.
‘Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will.’ – Carl Jung, CW 10:317
In this course, we will explore our connections as dreamer-poet-magicians, looking at how dreams and the Unconscious inform our poetry, just as they have informed poets we all know and love.
We will make use of various experiments and tools, such as Jung’s dream analysis method to generate portals to dream logic, producing innovating new poems along the way.
No live chats. Suitable for UK & International students.
Sascha Akhtar is a CW lecturer at the University of Greenwich. Akhtar has poetry forthcoming with both Intergraphia and Haverthorn Press and a book of translations from Urdu with Oxford University Press (2023).These follow on from six poetry collections, including The Grimoire of Grimalkin, (SALT, 2007), The Whimsy of Dank Ju-Ju (Emma Press 2019), and the innovative tarot deck of poetry Only Dying Sparkles (Zimzalla 2018). Akhtar has been facilitating teachings in magical practice and poetry at the Poetry School exclusively since 2018.
Dates: 26 May - 4 August 2023 (5 fortnightly sessions over 10 weeks)
Location: Online
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(Update: Since adding, this course has now sold out so you may want to see if there is a waiting list.)