Writing Poetry
Offered By: BBC Maestro
Course Description
Overview
Join Carol Ann on a journey to discovering your poetic voice, from finding inspiration to crafting your own unique poetry style.
- Use memory and imagination
- Develop a unique style
- Learn the power of your senses
- Write for different occasions
- Build your own collection
- Find time to write
Syllabus
- Writing Poetry Introduction
- Memory as imagination: place
- Memory as imagination: people
- Your own words
- Read to write
- Learning poems by heart
- Finding inspiration: art
- Finding inspiration: story
- Finding inspiration: your own interests
- Coming to your senses: looking, smelling, listening, tasting, touching
- Coming to your senses: the weather
- Coming to your senses: love poems
- The world we live in: up close
- The world we live in: towns & cities
- Time: receiving the baton
- Time: a year in your life
- Time: writing backwards
- Choosing a form
- Drafting and redrafting
- Writing for occasions: the personal
- Writing for occasions: the public
- Anthologies and answering back
- Writing poetry for children
- Building a collection
- Don't give up your day job
Taught by
Carol Ann Duffy
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