Masterclass Recording: Poetry

“… held between finger and thumb the blue

planet, and lifted it up to his watchmaker’s eye.”

– Simon Armitage, The English Astronaut

Award-winning poet Mark Pajak leads a creative workshop exploring the different ways in which you can interrogate and craft vivid and precise imagery in your writing. By studying the inner workings of some of the best contemporary poetry and prose, you will collect and construct your own central and subordinate images in surprising, challenging, and effective ways.

From the blinding to the subtle – the sonorous, kinaesthetic, acrid, textured – you will be encouraged to look past what is immediate to the deeper mechanisms of your images. You will learn how the precision of just one well-chosen word can evoke multiple senses and meanings.

This recording will be available to watch at your convenience. Please see the ‘Access’ tab for information on how to find it.

Online: £25.00

Concessions: £12.50

We are committed to making our Arvon at Home programme accessible to as many people as possible.

When you make your purchase, you will receive an email confirmation, including a link to the recording. You can access it at any time using that link. It can also be accessed by logging in to your account on our website, opening the course card on your ‘My Bookings’ page, and clicking on the red ‘Recording’ button. Any course materials that may have been shared for the live session will also be available via a button in the course card. All Masterclasses are recorded with auto-generated captioning, which appears on the recordings.

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