Online Poetry Workshop with Grace Wilentz
‘Poetry in the Anthropocene‘
Starts: Wednesday 5th November
Time: 6.00pm – 7.30pm
Duration: 4 weeks (November 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th)
Cost: €40
Course Level: Beginner/Emerging
All remote courses take place on Irish Standard Time (GMT)
Course Summary
‘I think calling it climate change is rather limiting. I would rather call it the everything change.’ — Margaret Atwood
This course is designed for poets who want to engage in sustained poetic attention to our transforming planet. Over four weeks, we’ll explore different approaches to writing, workshopping, editing and publishing poetry that pays close attention to our natural world, its cycles and its shifts. Together we will explore poetics encountering the ways climate change is redrawing our lives and landscapes through the work of poets writing in Ireland and internationall
Course Outline
Over the four weeks we will workshop participants’ original poems. Alongside this, we will collaborate around close readings of poems, and participants will be led in creative exercises for generating new work.
Course Outcomes
Writers receive feedback on work-in-progress, come away with freshly drafted poems, and discover new approaches to climate writing.
Course Leader
Grace Wilentz was born in New York City and grew up in Greenwich Village. A graduate of Harvard University, with postgraduate degrees from Oxford University and University College Dublin, she moved to Ireland in 2005 to study the Irish language and became an Irish citizen in 2015. Her first collection, The Limit of Light, was published by The Gallery Press in October 2020 and went on to be named a book of the year in The Irish Independent and The Irish Times. She has received support from The Arts Council including Literature Bursaries and a Next Generation Award. Her most recent collection, Harmony (Unfinished), published in October 2024, was a finalist for the Munster Literature Centre’s Farmgate Award. She is the inaugural Writer in Residence at Notre Dame in Dublin and has previously led writing workshops at UCD, the Irish Writers Centre, the Hugh Lane Gallery and the DLR Lexicon.
For more check out www.gracewilentz.com