Poetry
On our lively poetry courses, enjoy explores this captivating genre, revisit classic texts and discover new writers plus share your views in classroom discussions.
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Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath: bursting all the doors
Course Date: Thu 2 Nov 2017
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetNo two voices could be more dissimilar, yet the impact of both remains unparalleled in American women’s poetry. Explore the full range of Dickinson’s and Plath’s art - passionate, candid, dangerously subversive, controversial and adored.Full fee: £89.00Senior fee: £89.00Concession: £39.00 -
Introduction to poetry
Course Date: Sat 4 Nov 2017
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetAlways wanted to read and discuss poetry? Enjoy this introduction to a range of poetry from the last 400 years and explore how the poets shape our responses.Full fee: £49.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £25.00 -
Frank O'Hara and the New York School
Course Date: Sun 19 Nov 2017
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street‘Urbane, ironic, celebratory, wildly funny’, Frank O’Hara’s poetry registers the pulse of post-war New York, city of abstract expressionism, modern jazz and innovatory poets, many of whom circled O’Hara’s sun.Full fee: £49.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £25.00 -
The emperor of ice cream: why Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore and Frank O'Hara matter
Course Date: Wed 10 Jan 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetExplore why these three poets are important for their original uses of language and form, their wit and humour, and their life-long belief that poetry can enrich the reader’s imagination.Full fee: £179.00Senior fee: £143.00Concession: £79.00 -
Modern and contemporary Eastern European literature from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania
Course Date: Fri 12 Jan 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetEastern European writers have for too long been overshadowed by their Western counterparts, as if a wretched political history were not enough. Wit, fantasy, audacity, refinement – explore works by Kundera, Gombrowicz, Szymborska, Rebreanu and others.Full fee: £119.00Senior fee: £95.00Concession: £52.00 -
Milton: Paradise Lost – ‘Our inner freedom’
Course Date: Sat 27 Jan 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetParadise Lost excites fascination and controversy, confronting the existence of evil in a divinely ordained world. We shall consider a representative selection of crucial passages to illuminate the practical contemporary significance of this cosmic work.Full fee: £49.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £25.00 -
An introduction to poetry: UA Fanthorpe, Elizabeth Jennings and Carol Ann Duffy
Course Date: Sun 28 Jan 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetFollowing on from Introduction to poetry 1, you will read ,discuss and enjoy a selection of poetry by UA Fanthorpe, Elizabeth Jennings and Carol Ann Duffy in terms of their styles and themes.Full fee: £49.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £25.00 -
The freedom of our crimes: the poetry of WW2 across Europe
Course Date: Sat 17 Feb 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetWe shall study responses to the war from poets representing several combatant nations. In the process, we shall discover just how impressive and various were their evocations of this terrible and many-faceted conflict.Full fee: £49.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £25.00 -
Earth and air: three Romantic poets
Course Date: Sat 3 Mar 2018
Location on this date: OS - Off SiteThe most human of the elements, earth and air, will lead us into some of the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats, and their meditations on the relations between the individual, nature and society. The course will take place at Keats House in Hampstead.Full fee: £39.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £39.00 -
The plays of Anton Chekhov
Course Date: Sat 3 Mar 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetWe will read, view and discuss extracts from 'The Seagull', 'Three Sisters', 'Uncle Vanya' and 'The Cherry Orchard' and consider their revolutionary nature in terms of the concept of 'inner action'.Full fee: £49.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £25.00 -
Rising stars in contemporary poetry
Course Date: Mon 9 Apr 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetPoetry sales are rising. We will read a range of up-and-coming poets and discuss whether their work offers us something long-lasting, perhaps permanent, or whether they will fade away as fashions change.Full fee: £169.00Senior fee: £135.00Concession: £74.00 -
Milton: Paradise Lost
Course Date: Wed 11 Apr 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street'Paradise Lost' excites fascination and controversy, confronting the existence of evil in a divinely ordained world. We shall explore each of the twelve books to develop our understanding of this most complex and rewarding epic.Full fee: £189.00Senior fee: £151.00Concession: £83.00 -
The poetry of Keats: a literary workshop
Course Date: Sun 6 May 2018
Location on this date: OS - Off SiteThis course, led by Nick Field, Build literature tutor and former Keats House Poet in Residence, will give you the chance to read, explore and discuss some of Keats' most significant poetry in the location in which many of them were written. Poems include "The Odes" and "The Eve of St.Agnes".Full fee: £39.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £39.00