TUTOR: Charly is a poet from South Wales. She spends her time travelling around the world finding people and places that inspire her to write. She published her first collection of poems ‘A Collection of Wildflowers’ in March 2024 and is currently working on her second book. Her writing is largely influenced by nature, mindfulness and wellbeing. She sees writing as a way to connect with the world and is very excited to accompany you on your own writing journey!

Start Date: 8th January, 2025

Duration: 6 Weeks

Fee: €190

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Elevate Your Poetry: Join Our 6-Week Online Course

Discover the world of poetry with our exclusive 6-week Online Poetry Writing Course, a creative journey that dives deeply into the art of poetry. Guided by experienced and published poets, you’ll unlock your inner poet and explore the depth and beauty of this timeless craft. Our course is designed to sharpen your poetic skills and nurture your unique writing style.

Course Structure and Flexibility:

Each week, you’ll receive a new module with text lessons that you can engage with at your own pace, providing maximum flexibility to fit your lifestyle. We recommend dedicating 2-3 hours per week to the course. With no set class hours, you have the freedom to learn on your own terms.

Registration and Course Availability:

Due to high demand, we recommend registering early to secure your spot. Our classes are open to students worldwide.

Course Access and Materials:

You’ll retain lifetime access to all course materials, allowing you to revisit the content whenever you need a refresher, even after the course concludes.

Starting Your Course:

Your tutor will email you the first module on the course start date. Be sure to check your Spam/Junk folder to avoid missing this essential information. Each week, you’ll receive a written task designed to enhance your learning and skill development. Upon completion, you’ll submit these assignments for personalised feedback from your dedicated online tutor, who will guide and support you every step of the way. Our goal is to help you refine your craft and elevate your poetry to new heights!

Outline of our Poetry Course

Week One – Writing Poems That Matter

We start with setting intentions: for our poems, practice, process. We will examine the ‘why’ that carries us to the page – what dreams and desires do we have for the poems we write? What do we want them, if anything, to ‘do’? What makes them matter, if only to ourselves? How can we embed a sense of creative urgency to write braver and bolder work, over the next six weeks?

Week Two – The ‘Long-Armed’ Poem: Letting Anything Belong

This week we will explore examples of poems that roam, wander freely, welcoming various thoughts, feelings, and observations inside their doors, rather than shutting them out. We will reflect on the potential limitations we set ourselves by what we feel should ‘belong’ in a poem, and work to allow chaos to enter our first drafts, before deciding what we let stay, what we choose to cast off.

Week Three – Poems That (Like Us) Contain Multitudes

This week we will challenge the idea that a poem must sing in one note, and instead turn to Donald Hall’s belief that when it comes to poetry: ‘no conflict, no energy’. We will explore the importance of empathy and nuance when writing our own personal experience / the experiences of others, and examine the impact of poems that hold vast emotional landscapes.

Week Four – Poems That Reimagine, Retell, Make Possible

This week we look to the poets who use poetry to imagine a world different than this one. Who turn to the page to rewrite their own stories, reclaim a history. We will investigate the power of erasure and blackout poetry: forms that enable you to take an experience, feeling, or entire text, and transform it into something fresh, new, yours.

Week Five – On Finding The Form

This week we take a deep-dive into the many ways poetic form can both restrict and set free. Make a poem sing or stifle it. We will explore how learning the rules, only to break them, can create delightful surprises for both writer and reader. You will also have the opportunity to devise your own, personalised form of poetry, based on elements that both excite and challenge you.

Week Six – What We Did, What Will Do Next

In this session, we will look back on what we have achieved, however small or large. You will have the chance to ‘showcase’ a poem that you are proud of, and we will set out clear goals and ideas that will support you to keep going, and growing, as a poet.

To find out more about how our poetry writing course works, visit our FAQ page.
You can also email us at info@creativewriting.ie
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