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Writing Poetry - develop your writing of poetry with an experienced poet and tutor.
Whether you are a beginner, intermediate or poet with some experience, these classes will be tailored to suit your approach and level. The class will be a safe space for you to receive informed feedback on your work, to do lively and fun but challenging exercises, listen to mini-talks, to explore of form in poetry, say, in a lively and accessible manner, to learn about particular poets, past and present, or advice about publishing and other aspects of 'being a poet' relevant to your accomplishments so far.
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Age: | Adults (18-64 years old) |
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Student level: | Beginner Intermediate Advanced |
Duration: | 60 minutes |
The class is taught in: | English |
About Me
Brief Biog | MatthewMatthew’s To Abandon Wizardry, published by Bloodaxe on November 16th 2023, is his seventh full-length poetry collection. His first, Thirst [Slow Dancer, 1999], was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Prophecy Is Easy, a pamphlet of very loose versions from French 20th Century poets, was published by Blueprint in 2021. Another pamphlet, of 19th/20th Century French Women poets titled The Sealed Well is being readied. He recently made a Poem-Film for Unicorn Street - a poem from the new book- with film-maker Jesse Adlam. These days he is a mentor for The Poetry School, and has also recently taught poetry at the universities of St Andrews [twice], Winchester and Royal Holloway, London. He has just recently read in The Hastings Bookshop with Abigail Parry and Amali Gunasekera and at The Wheatsheaf, Fitzrovia with Camille Ralphs and others; as well as at The Eagle Bookshop, Bedford and The University of Nottingham. Two new poems The Phase and MittleEuropa will appear in this autumn's The Poetry Review.
'To Abandon Wizardry'
"The games plays with simile and metaphor, the word-play, the close observation and the startling timeshifts all create a surface texture that can resemble Surrealism but which usually turns out to be based on a close observation of reality, or, as the poem put it, 'existence without plot' (the bay tree tells the coffee-drinker to 'steal / god's breath'). As Gide said of Henri Michaux, 'excels in making us feel the strangeness of natural things and the naturalness of strange things.'However much one reads Matthew's poems, I suspect one will always be pulling something new from them."
DOMINIC RIVRON | Stride 'Trawlerman's Turquoise'
“Chief amongst British poets takes seriously the vision of synaesthetic abundance laid out in Mallarmé’ s essay ‘Crisis and Verse’...[ ] is a great poet of transposition and vibration...[ ] at his very best, an offhand philosopher and bard of the demi-monde, gently blowing our minds”.
DAI GEORGE | Poetry Wales
‘The humour and playfulness...shows off 's carefree ability to draw lines across time and space. It also feels profoundly European – a poetry in which borders do not exist, and we are all reflected in this multicultural, pan-historical vision.’
CHRISSY WILLIAMS | Poetry London
Education
I have recently taught poetry for The Poetry School, London; The School of English, University of St Andrews; Royal Holloway University London and University of Winchester.Experience / Qualifications
I have been a Senior Lecturer in Art & Design for many years and since 2015, a Poetry tutor, mentor and lecturer. I have published 7 collections of poetry and mentored, advised and edited poets of all levels.Ask a question
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