Online Writing Day: Poetry

“The ghosts swarm.

They speak as one

Person. Each

Loves you. Each

Has left something undone.“

Rae Armantrout

In what ways might a poem be like a ghost? How might the body of the speaker become invisible? What ideas can be said to ‘haunt’ a poem? Join award-winning poet Richard Scott for this one-day course inspired by the diaphanous and the uncanny. During workshops, you’ll explore the idea of a poem as a vanishing, taking a journey in your work from the known and the corporeal into something altogether more haunted and spectral. Be prepared to generate lots of new material. Richard says: “In the words of Lucie Brock Broido, we will be ‘a freak of letters crossing down a rare / Path bleak with poplars’; following Ocean Vuong in his quest to ‘ disappear [. . .] let the fog spill through the cracked window & cover my fangs’; as we firmly enter Wallace Steven’s landscape in which all ‘the houses are haunted.”

The guest speaker for this writing day will be poet CAConrad.

To make the event as accessible and flexible as possible, all sessions of the day are delivered live via Zoom webinar. You have the choice to attend each session live, which will mean you can contribute via the chatbox, or you can watch the recordings of each session at any time over the course of the following month. Please note, your camera and audio will not be visible/audible, allowing you to relax and take the day at your own pace. 

Cost: £85

Concessions: £42.50

As part of our effort to increase participation in the arts, 50% concessions are available for this course at checkout.

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

See here for more access information.