My Poetry School Spring 2008 courses in the U.K.

Click onto "search by tutor": The Poetry School workshops directory page
and then scroll down to Alan Summers, and click search for the workshops I'm offering.

haiku & senryu Saturday workshop:
Participants will learn the 'real rules' of these ultra-compact forms and consider their relevance to modern British poetry.

The renga Saturday workshop:
This workshop introduces the shared writing linked verse form of renga (both haiku and senryu originate from renga). Through group activity we will aim to complete a twenty verse nijuin renga by the end of the day.

Korean, Japanese & Chinese Forms
This workshop introduces the forms of Sijo, Sedoka, Tanka, and Jueju. Participants will learn how these forms are still active today.

The purpose of these three workshops:
is to examine and practice, through group discussion and participation, both the traditions and contemporary possibilities of various classic Asian poetry forms. Participants will aim to have finished poems at the end of each session and are invited to bring work-in-progress as well (16 copies of each poem).

There is no requirement to enroll onto all three courses.

I will be delighted to see you whether you book one, two, or three workshops!

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