Poetry in the Making - Developing Your Poetry Voice - West Bridgford Library - Adult Learning

About this course

• What is Poetry? How to discover your unique style 
• Sources of inspiration 
• In depth look at published poems - how they can inspire and shape your work  
• Rhyme, sound, images, form and meaning 
• Developing the skills, to offer developmental feedback to yourself and others 

The course is aimed at beginners and those who have done some poetry writing but are not consistently published and will focus on developing learners’ skills so that they become more confident and are able take their poetry writing to the next level. 

The course will be workshop style, lively and supportive with lots of opportunity for discussion and feedback on learners’ work. Each week we will also look at a poem by a contemporary published poet as well as setting 'prompts' for the following week 

By the end of the course, you will: 

• Have a number of drafts of poems underway and some completed poems 
• Have gained the confidence to move forward in your writing 
• Have experimented with using existing poems, images and other prompts to make a start on your poems  
• Be able to recognize a number of poetic forms  
• Will be able to give and receive developmental feedback to help others and to use it in your work 
• Discover the work of published poets, their lives and contexts 

 Suggested Reading for the course:  

• 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem – A Poem for Every Week of the Year, Ruth Padel, Vintage Books, 2004 ISBN 978-0-099-42915-9  
• The Rattle Bag, ed. Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, Faber and Faber, 1982 ISBN 0 571 11976 X  
• Here to Eternity: An Anthology of Poetry, selected by Andrew Motion, Faber and Faber, 2001 ISBN 0 571 20464 3  
• Staying Alive, Real Poems for Unreal Times, ed. Neil Astley, Bloodaxe Books, 2002 ISBN 9781 8522 46754 

Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course  please visit our webpage for further information  https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

• Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
• Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

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To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Greater London
• Greater Manchester
• Liverpool City Region
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
• Tees Valley
• West of England
• West Midlands
• West Yorkshire

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• By phone: 01623 677 200
• By email: learning@inspireculture.org.uk

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