Poetry

Discovering the tools

Monday February 3rd - Saturday February 8th 2020

Lumb Bank

Do you need to escape the noise of everyday life? Do you want to make writing your sole focus for a week? Whether you arrive with ideas, or a promising blank page, this is a chance to ignite your creativity and discover the tools needed to shape your poems onto the page. Using a wide range of exercises designed to engage and inspire, we will enable you to become a more confident reader and writer of poetry. In a warm and supportive atmosphere, see your work move in exciting directions and leave with new belief in your creative voice.

Single room price: £795

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COURSE TUTORS

Tutor

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Rebecca Goss

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Rebecca Goss’s second collection Her Birth (Carcanet, 2013), was shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection, the…

Tutor

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Antony Dunn

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Antony Dunn has published four collections of poems: Pilots and Navigators, Flying Fish, Bugs…

Guest

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Luke Thompson

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Luke Thompson is a writer, publisher and editor. His first pamphlet of poetry was published in 2016 by Atlantic Press and…

Lumb Bank

The Ted Hughes Arvon Centre, Lumb Bank is an 18th-century millowners house in West Yorkshire, which once belonged to Ted Hughes. It’s set in 20 acres of steep woodland with breathtaking views to the valley below.

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THE COURSE AT A GLANCE

Writing course tutor delivering a workshop at Lumb Bank

Monday

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Arrive late afternoon, settle in, enjoy dinner and the tutors’ introduction to the week in the evening.

Tuesday

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Morning workshops led by tutors. Afternoons are your time for writing and one-to-one tutorials. Tutors read from their work in the evening.

Course participants writing at the workshop table at The Hurst

Wednesday

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Morning workshops led by tutors. Afternoons are your time for writing and one-to-one tutorials. In the evening a guest speaker joins the group.

Course participant writing on a sofa in the barn at Lumb Bank

Thursday

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Morning workshops led by tutors. Afternoons are your time for writing and one-to-one tutorials. You are free to spend this evening as you wish.

A woman smiling and listening to a writing tutor speak at Lumb Bank

Friday

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Tutors lead the final workshops in the morning. In the evening everyone gets together to share and celebrate their work.

Saturday

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The week comes to a close after breakfast. Have a tissue handy to say your farewells to the group.

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“I arrived at the beginning of the week wondering whether I might be a writer or even if I could write. But when I left, not only did I feel I could write, I knew that’s what I was going to do next.”

—Piers Torday

“It is invaluable to writers at an early stage to have this feedback on their work. Many people on my course said that they wished that they had received this type of input earlier in their career – that it might have borne fruit and improved their success. It also provides time to think – in an over complicated world it is hard to carve time for yourself against the requirements of work, family, and daily chores. Arvon was a breath of fresh creative air.”

—Penny Clark

“Both courses I attended have had a massive impact on my writing, and been part of the motivation and encouragement I needed to begin working professionally as a writer.”

—Course participant