West Cork Literary Festival present a three day Poetry Workshop with Míchéal McCann will run from Monday 15 to Wednesday 17 July 2024 from9.30am to 2.30pm each day.
This workshop will begin each morning with explorations of several poems, and their ‘approach’, with mind to pursuing similar effects in our own writing. The 11:30am-1pm slot will be a communal workshop where participants will workshop existing poems – each participant is asked to submit up to two poems (max line count 40 lines) to info@westcorkmusic.ie no later than Friday 5 July. Please specify which of your two poems you would most like to discuss, if there is only time for one poem per person.
The afternoon will conclude with more focused writing and thinking based around various prompts, inspirations and each section of the workshop will seek to produce new and various forms of work for the participant as they approach publication.
Max: 15 participants
Admission: €230 Book Now
Mícheál McCann was born in Derry City, and has published poems in The Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, Queering the Green, Cyphers, Romance Options: Love Poems for Today and The Manchester Review. His first pamphlet of poems Safe Home was published in June 2020 by Green Bottle Press. He holds a PhD from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s where he is the 2024 Publishing Fellow. His first full collection of poems, Devotion, will be published by The Gallery Press in May 2024.
