Poetry Fundamentals - A Seven-Week Course Taught by the North Sea Poets
Tue, 29 Apr
|Webinar
Week 2 - Niall Campbell: The Point of the Mask is Not the Mask | Charles Wright in his poem ‘Chickamauga’ writes: ‘The point of the mask is not the mask but the face underneath.’ The mask, in its own way, can be revealing.
Time & Location
29 Apr 2025, 19:30 – 21:30 BST
Webinar
About the event
Beginning in Poetry is a series of seven classes, delivered weekly by members of the NSP Collective. Classes will run between 90 minutes and two hours long, and students will have an opportunity to directly interact with the tutor through a brief Q&A at the end of the session.
This workshop series is suitable for both experienced and emerging writers.
Week 2: 29th April 2025 7:30-9:30pm
Niall Campbell: The Point of the Mask is Not the Mask
Charles Wright in his poem ‘Chickamauga’ writes: ‘The point of the mask is not the mask but the face underneath.’ The mask, in its own way, can be revealing. This workshop will begin by looking at how different poets (including Seamus Heaney, Liz Berry, Ted Hughes and others) have adopted different personae to create distance from the ‘usual’ author of their ownwork. Later, in generative exercises, we will also put on voices and masks to test how far…