Welcome to 2018. (Yes I know it’s been underway a while. I was giving it all time to make sure it was actually the new year happening, and not just 2017 in a loop.) As you will notice, the website has had a bit of a refurb. Hopefully you like what you see. A change …
Free session – An Introduction to Close Reading
As a final little flourish before we all pack things up for the year, I’m offering a free short seminar-style class immediately after the final session of Reading for Writing on December 3rd – an Introduction to Close Reading, focusing exclusively on Don Paterson’s poem Imperial. I talk a bit about the practice of close reading on my …
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Poetry Workshops for Summer 2012
After a certain amount of deliberation (ok, not that much), I’m offering two poetry workshops for the Summer – a Billy Collins Weekend, and a Poetic Endings Masterclass. The Billy Collins Weekend – Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd January – will be a Reading for Writing class, where we’ll look exclusively at Billy Collins poems. …
Reading, Writing, and Good Intentions
Well that's Reading for Writing all done for term one. I've had a ball – I hope my students did too. (I guess that will become apparent when I get the signups for the term two classes …) The thing that amazed me was how happy everyone seemed to be to do the close reading …
site update – Commentaries posted
If you look right below the header image, you'll see that a new page has appeared – Commentaries! Yes, I've finally managed to get around to formatting some of my close readings and putting them up. I hope to be able to post quite a lot more of these. I really enjoy getting in to …
