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August 6 - 11 10. POETRy: BREAKING BOuNDARIES Daljit Nagra and Pascale Petit Guest: Karen McCarthy woolf Poetry should cross the bounds of imagination and conventional taste because it should surprise by its fine excess. Pascale and Daljit will set writing exercises designed to inspire you to imagine in radical ways so exciting new work is produced over the week. In addition the course will focus on how to energise your poems so their rapture will thrill the reader. The course will be a mixture of writing exercises, focus on ground-breaking contemporary poetry and discussions about the key issues that will help to innovate new writing. Daljit Nagra comes from a Punjabi background. He was born and raised in London then Sheffield. In 2004, he won the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem with Look We Have Coming to Dover! This was also the title of his first collection which was published by Faber & Faber in 2007 and which won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and The South Bank Show Decibel Award. Daljit is on the Board of the Poetry Book Society. and is the Lead Poetry Tutor at The Faber Academy and has run workshops all over the world. Pascale Petit was born in Paris, grew up in France and wales and lives in London. She has published five poetry collections. Her latest collection is What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo (Seren, 2010), which was shortlisted for the TS Eliot prize, wales Book of the year and was a book of the year in the Observer. She tutors at Tate Modern and is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Fee: £540 (single room) / £460 (shared room)
August 13 - 18 11. CREATIVE NON-FICTION Horatio Clare and Helena Drysdale Guest: Jan Morris This course will identify key areas for the writer of non-fiction: character, action, truth, story, structure, dialogue and setting. using a variety of sources, exercises, examples and tasks it will take participants into the heart of what it is to write well about life, whether from memory, sources or observation. we will look at how the techniques of fiction and drama can best be applied to non-fiction with the aim of producing work which is vivid, gripping and original. Though it will not focus explicitly on the business of publishing or marketing books, the production of publication-standard material is its aim. Horatio Clare’s latest book is The Prince’s Pen, a novel based on a welsh myth. He is the author of Running for the Hills (Somerset Maugham Award), Truant and A Single Swallow (shortlisted for the Dolman Travel Book of the year and longlisted for the wales Book of the year). Horatio is also an award-winning journalist who writes frequently for Conde Nast Traveller and the Daily Telegraph, and a broadcaster on BBC Radio 3 and 4. His next book is Down to the Sea in Ships, a story of boats, oceans and men. Helena Drysdale’s five books include Looking for George: Love and Death in Romania (Picador), shortlisted for the Esquire/Apple/ waterstone’s Non-Fiction Award, and the PEN/J.R.Ackerley Award for Autobiography and Strangerland: A Family at War (Picador, 2006). She is currently working on a book about Greece. She is a Royal Literary Fellow at Exeter university and edits manuscripts for the writer’s workshop. Fee: £540 (single room) / £460 (shared room) 18/19
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