Online Poetry Workshop with John FitzGerald
‘Walking the Line’
Starts: Wednesday October 8th
Time: 6.30 pm – 8.00 pm
Duration: 4 weeks (October 8th, 15th, 22nd & 29th)
Cost: €40
All remote courses take place on Irish Standard Time (GMT)
Course Summary
In this workshop you’ll get to focus on interesting approaches to writing poetry, including writing to a specific form, responding to other works of art and mobilizing your own unique voice. We’ll discover how these can free your creative thinking in exciting and unexpected ways. You’ll have time to workshop individual poems and read and critique each other’s work in a safe environment. The workshop atmosphere will be inclusive and not too formal, ensuring there is time for learning, exchange and enjoyment.
Course Outline
Participants will receive a small number of published poems to read in advance of each session, and these will be visited during the workshop for their merits and learnings. You will also bring along a poem of yours to share and these will be workshopped by the group. The focus throughout will be on deepening your awareness of technique and the ways in which your work can be improved.
Course Outcomes
Writers will come away with a greater awareness of how to write in response to the world around us, and how to build structure and originality into your writing. You’ll also have some new and workshopped poems along with some new techniques and concepts to deploy as you practice and develop your own writing. In the final session, we will discuss pathways for disseminating and publishing your poems.
Course Leader
John FitzGerald has published three books of poetry with the Gallery Press: Long Distance (2024), The Lament for Art O’Leary (2023) and The Time Being (2021). Two letterpress editions of his work have appeared with The Salvage Press, Haiku na Feirme (2022) and Darklight (2019), and his chapbook First Cut appeared in the Southword New Irish Voices series in 2017. He won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Prize in 2014, and The Atlantic Currents Prize in 2021. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the School of English, University College Cork, where he delivers a poetry workshop module for the MA in Creative Writing. He has led poetry workshops in Spain, Greece and Ireland.
For more check out: www.johnafitzgerald.com