Online 5-Week Evening Course: Poetry

Following a soldout course earlier in the year, Helen Mort and John McCullough return to Arvon at Home, helping you shape your poems into a pamphlet in evening sessions over the course of five weeks. Helen and John will guide you as you structure your work into a coherent whole. You will examine the changing nature of publishing, as well as the range of poetry publishers to which you might submit. You’ll think about how to assemble poems so that they reinforce each other, considering organizing principles such as subject matter and form. You will be encouraged to explore themed pamphlets, as well as those containing narrative arcs and sequences. You will also discover the effects of a variety of poetic devices, techniques and structures, both traditional and experimental. During the course, you’ll share poems, you’ll consider how different poems of yours might go together and, through a series of exercises, you’ll be encouraged to create new pieces too. By the end, you’ll have a strong sense of avenues to follow to construct a pamphlet and of the publishers you might pitch to when seeking publication.

Do you want to commit time to your writing but can only manage a couple of hours a week? Would you like a writing boost and a network of writing buddies? Then join us for this Arvon Evening Course which unpacks our popular 5-day online writing week over 5 weeks of evening classes. Each week, your tutors will deliver a workshop designed to propel your writing forward, with one-to-one tutorials offered mid-course, alongside tutor readings and weekly socials.  You will develop a regular writing routine and come away from the course with a whole new network of contacts and companions for your writing years ahead.

Online: £425

Concessions: £297.50

As part of our effort to increase participation in the arts, we offer limited concessionary places at a 30% reduction. You can select this option at checkout if available.

Grants are available to help with the course fee

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

Across all of Arvon at Home

• All sessions will have auto-generated captioning.
• During sessions we will have a text version available via screen share.
• There is a Chat facility to ask any questions.

Masterclasses and Online Writing Day

• A recording of the Masterclass will be available to view for one month after it is aired live.
• There is a Chat and Q & A facility to ask any questions.
• Zoom webinar format (your video and audio will remain off throughout, & your name will not be visible to other participants so it is a ‘relaxed’ event).

How I Write

• There is a chat and Q&A facility to ask any questions.
• Zoom webinar format (your video and audio will remain off throughout, & your name will not be visible to other participants so it is a ‘relaxed’ event).

Online Writing Weeks / Weekends

• Courses have much smaller groups than Masterclasses and How I Write events, and are also more interactive with your fellow course participants and tutors, so cameras and audio are usually on (though both are completely optional). If you would prefer your camera and audio to be off, it would be helpful to let your course host know this in advance.

Subject to funding/permissions (please contact us for more details)

• Recording of Writing Weeks and Weekends.
• Downloadable transcripts.
• BSL interpretation.
• Live captioning.

If you have any access issues that we have not covered here, please contact us on access@arvon.org

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