Crafting Poetry
This course will run on Tuesday evenings in the Round Tower Hotel, Ardmore, Co. Waterford from 6pm to 8pm.
15th /22nd /29th September 13th & 20th October and will conclude on 3rd November 2015.
This course with award-winning poet and writing teacher Kathy D'Arcy will work through various elements of theme, form, structure and technique in poetry, using examples from well-known poets and exciting, generative assignments. Work developed during the course will be discussed and constructively critiqued within the group, and we will also look at the process of sending pieces away for publication.
This course is aimed at those who have already begun crafting poems and hope to develop their drafting, editing and critiquing skills in a supportive environment. Therefore a level of writing experience is necessary and it is unsuitable for beginners.
The Arts Office, Waterford City & County Council is highly subsidising this course and places are limited. The cost for the six sessions is a subsided rate of €50 payable on you getting confirmation that you have secured a place on the course. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis but please note that we may request samples of your work to ensure that you will be comfortable working in this group. Please email your interest in attending to morgan@waterfordcouncil.ie on or before 4pm on 11th September 2015. If places are filled in advance of this date you may be placed on a waiting list.
Your Course Tutor
Kathy D'Arcy is a young Cork poet whose collections Encounter (Lapwing), and The Wild Pupil (Bradshaw) were published in 2010 and 2012 respectively. In 2013 she was awarded an Arts Council Literature Bursary, and in 2014 she received an Irish Research Council Award to undertake a PhD in Creative Writing in University College Cork, where she also teaches with the Creative Writing and Women's Studies programmes. D'Arcy originally qualified and worked as a doctor, and now runs creative writing groups for adults and young people. She is also a playwright, and her play 'This is my Constitution' was staged in Dáil Éireann in 2013 at an Irish parliamentary briefing on constitutional change. She has worked with Waterford’s Arts Office on various school and adult literature projects.
'among the best poems I have read in years' - Thomas McCarthy
www.kathydarcy.com