- Poem Poem Poem (PPP) Making Poetry
Four month poetry email course course open for booking.
Bob Commin, poet, writer, storyteller, pastor, and I will be running this. There will be a syllabus (20 poets to be savoured), input on poetic technique (rhythm, image, cadence, metre, rhyme) an assignment section and group conversations around your work. Email Dorian for details! Next course starts in February 2008
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- The Poet’s Voice: Advanced Poetry Writing Course
Bob Commin and I will be offering an email continuation of the PPP course - The Poet’s Voice . This apprenticeship aims to take you further up the writing mountain and offer you a deeper engagement with your craft and your calling. Our chief concern is not the academic approach to a poem, but a holistic one in which a meeting of reader and poet takes place in and through the text.
This four month course in which participants work through assignments, is structured in the nature of an ongoing conversation. You engage with us and you engage with the group as well. You are committed to keeping a poetry journal to record your four month’s reflections. The journal is a vital part of the process. Next course starts in February 2008 Flyer
Bob Commin poet, writer, storyteller and pastor, runs poetry courses/events in the Cape Town Southern Suburbs (Obs to Fish Hoek)
writing as the activity of soul…be inspired in your creativity
for those who think about writing and never do it
… have lived through a trauma and would like to write about it
… are going through great changes in their lives
… have heard that writing can heal you
… want to learn about the great magic of writing
… would like to meet and learn from others about writing
we share our wisdom and writing (if we wish) with each other
- Here are some partnership adventures:
Mon 24 to Fri 28 Nov - Writing, Reflecting, Being. Hogsback East Cape. Join East Cape poets, Cathal Lagan and Brain Walter and West Cape poets Bob Commin and me for this retreat. Visit the eco-shrine, walk the labyrinth, write in the mountains, read at the fireside. Come live the life of a writer. We already have two bookings.
