Ty Newydd Course Brochure - Literature Wales

April 2 - 7
2. POETRy
Gillian Clarke and Carol Ann Duffy
Guest: Christine Evans
A course for poets at all levels of experience. Develop your
skills alongside two of the most successful poets publishing
today. workshops will encourage discussion of work in progress
and there will be ample time devoted to one-to-one tutorials.
During the week the tutors will give a reading of their work and
participants will contribute to an anthology and a celebratory
reading on the Friday.
Gillian Clarke is the National Poet of wales since 2008 and
President of Tŷ Newydd. In 2010 she was awarded the Queen’s
Gold Medal for Poetry. Her Collected Poems was published in
1997. At the Source, six essays and a journal, appeared in 2008, a
collection of poems, A Recipe for Water, was published in 2009. A
new collection, Ice Music, is due in 2012.
www.gillianclarke.co.uk / www.sheerpoetry.co.uk
Carol Ann Duffy is the Poet Laureate. Her poetry collections
include Mean Time (Anvil Press, 1993), which won the whitbread
Poetry Award and the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry
Collection of the year), The World’s Wife (Anvil Press, 1999) and
Rapture (Picador, 2005), which was a PBS Autumn Choice and
won the TS Eliot Prize. The Bees (Picador, 2011) is shortlisted for
the TS Eliot Prize 2011.
www.sheerpoetry.co.uk
Fee: £540 (single room) / £460 (shared room)
08/09