This course is designed to build your knowledge and enjoyment of English poetry, and encourage you to find your own poetic voice. We will study a range of poems, from medieval times to the present, and learn about the different forms of verse: sonnet, sestina, villanelle, blank verse, rhyming couplets, and more! Classes are discussion-based, as we share our responses to poems and consider different ways of reading, to appreciate a writer’s meaning and technique. By the end of the

course, you should be able to pick up any anthology of English verse with confidence and read it with pleasure! There will be opportunities to write your own poems in response to what we read, and share them with the group.

This course will use The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms as a course book, with some supplementary material.

Part-payment plans can be arranged if you’d like to pay in three instalments.

Wed 05 Aug – £320

Mon 05 Oct – £320

Sat 05 Dec – £320

Please contact carla@rawwriting.co.uk if you’d like to arrange this.

Session Dates

• Sep dates: Tue 15, Tue 22 & Tue 29
• Oct dates: Tue 06, Tue 13 & Tue 20
• Nov dates: Tue 03, Tue 10, Tue 17 & Tue 24
• Dec dates: Tue 01 & Tue 08
• Jan dates: Tue 12, Tue 19 & Tue26
• Feb dates: Tue 02, Tue 09 & Tue 16

About The Tutor

After studying English at Oxford, Malcolm Hebron taught for many years at Winchester College, preparing students for A Level. Over that time, he published books on medieval and renaissance writing, literature and linguistics and wrote a guide on how to read poetry.

Malcolm is a Fellow of the English Association, and as an editor of a journal, he has worked with critics and poets, helping them prepare work for publication. Malcolm writes poems himself, of course, as a daily habit; and above all, he loves sharing what he has learned and learning from others.

Please email Carla at carla@rawwriting.co.uk if you have any questions before booking or call or message her on 07474 116771

www.rawwriting.co.uk

Venue: Meeting Room, Exeter Phoenix

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