Poetic Form II

Join much-loved local poet and publisher Philip Rush on the second of our Dialect Craft Series using the principle of shuhari to learn the art of poetic form. Shu is learn the rules; ha is break the rules; ri is transcend the rules.

Participants will work with sonnets as a foundational form, moving on to the ode, heroic couplet, elegy, ballad and dream vision. The ‘dream vision’ and the ‘elegy’ are defined by content and theme rather than by form per se, but as genre they are interesting applications of form.

Participants will create new work and engage critically and constructively with others. A great opportunity to learn from a true master.  

Time / Date / Venue Details

This course will run face to face in Stroud on Mondays 11am - 1pm in the Blue Room at the Centre for Science and Art, 13 Landsdown, Stroud, GL5 1BB. The venue is a 3 minute walk from the train and bus stations and there is ample parking nearby in Church Street. Please note that if needs be we can move this course online.

Dates: February 7th, 28th, March 21st, April 4th.

Cost £100 for the four workshops; 10% off if you book with Writing Poetry (total £180 for 8 workshops).

To book all 8 workshops, please email dialectwriters@gmail.com.

To book on to Poetic Form only, book via Ticketsource here.

Full and partial bursaries are available for this course on application to dialectsubmissions@gmail.com  

Philip Rush was born and grew up in Middlesex and London. He taught English in Gloucestershire schools for forty years. He has been running an independent poetry press, Yew Tree Press, for several years now and hosts regular poetry events at the Museum in the Park. He endorses poems which combine the surface appeal of well-composed prose with he meditative qualities of a period of silence or of a walk through familiar countryside.