Poetry Unlocked: A Creative Journey (short course)

*** For Loughborough University students and staff only ***

About the course

Join us on this short course as we read and write poems together, led by local poet Carol Rowntree Jones. In a supportive space, we’ll look at how poems work, what techniques poets use, and how form and content work together.

Working with poetry prompts, we’ll try our hand at writing our own poems, with a ‘light-touch’ sharing of work (if attendees wish). The aim is to grow your enjoyment of poetry and build confidence in your writing.

Open to all students and staff. You do not need any prior experience in writing poetry, just a desire to learn!

It is possible to join the course after the first week.

Course outline

Week 1: Coming out of winter, poems and prompts

Week 2: Poetic form – stanzas, white space, specific forms

Week 3: Poetic techniques – imagery, metaphor, use of language

Week 4: Feeling and meaning “Poetry should not mean but be”

Week 5: Finding joy in the world, paying attention

About the tutor

Carol Rowntree Jones won the inaugural Overton Prize with her sequence This is not normal behaviour (published by Lamplight Press, Loughborough University), and her work has been further published in The North, Left Lion, Staple, and various anthologies. One of her writing highlights has been working with Open Doors organisation, leading creative writing sessions in men’s and women’s prisons.

She lives in south Nottinghamshire and is currently working on a creative non-fiction project focused on the National Forest.

Accessibility

There is step free access into Martin Hall and an accessible toilet is located on the ground floor corridor.

If you have any specific access requirements or anything you would like us to be aware of when running the classes, please let us know via the booking form or email LUArts@lboro.ac.uk in advance of booking and we will do our best to accommodate them.

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