Online: Poetry Clinic

Date:

Wed 12 July 2017 – 11:59 PM to Wed 8 November 2017 – 11:59 PM

With:

Terry Jaensch

Rating:

EARLY, EMERGING

Receive direct feedback from your tutor and fellow course participants with this email correspondence course for early and emerging poets.

a portrait of Terry Jaensch — Terry Jaensch

Poems due midnight Wednesdays 12 July, 16 August, 13 September, 11 October, 8 November.

You will learn

to move through the personal to the universal in poetry
about the central place of metaphor in poetry
how to understand the relationship between content and form in poetry
about knowing when to leave your poems alone- when to put the ‘pen’ down
to locate your own particular voice in poetry.

About Terry Jaensch

Terry Jaensch is an Australian poet, director and monologist. His first book of poetry, ‘Buoy’, was shortlisted for the Fellowship of Australian Writers’ Anne Elder Award. He has worked as a Writer-in-Community, Poetry Editor of ‘Cordite’, Artist-in-Residence, dramaturge, Director of the 2005 Emerging Writers’ Festival, poetry teacher and more. His latest volume of poetry is ‘Shark’.