North Sea Poets Autumn Course - 'Writing With ...' (Saturdays)
Sat 20 Sept
|Online Workshop
A series of seven classes, each one delivered weekly by a different member of North Sea Poets, with a Q&A at the end of each session.
Time & Location
20 Sept 2025, 11:00 – 13:00 BST
Online Workshop
About the event
Due to popular demand, we're offering a second section of ‘Writing With …’ on Saturdays, 11am-1pm BST, starting 20th September.
'Writing With ...' starts 20th September running weekly until 1st November, 11am-1pm BST on Saturdays. Your ticket gives you access to all seven workshops.
Week 1 - Writing with Plath – Don Paterson
In the public imagination, Sylvia Plath's work has long been confused with her biography and early death. Among poets, however, she is still regarded as master of image and symbol, formal technique and rhetorical power. This class will concentrate on what we can learn from Plath's skill with the poetic line, her concentration of dramatic energy, her transformation of the mundane – and most of all, her astonishing gift for the unforgettable phrase. Most poets who write quickly also sound like it, but Plath shows how we might use our technical fluency to transfer the immediate energy of the…
Tickets
General Admission
This ticket gives the buyer access to all seven 'Writing With ...' online workshops, plus access to event recordings and materials.
£250.00
+£6.25 ticket service fee
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