Breaking the Habit: Brush Up Your Technique with Helen Farish - Workshop

Helen Farish

Date: Thursday, 09 October 2008 | 11:00am - 4:30pm

Location: Various

Ticket Prices: £45/£35

Whether you have been writing poetry for a long time or are relatively inexperienced, this workshop will help you focus on your technique. Looking at the close relationship between writing and reading, contemporary American and British poems will be used as examples to reveal your own methods. Helen Farish is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Lancaster University and has previously taught at Sheffield Hallam University. Her debut collection of poetry, Intimates, won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2005 and was also shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize.

HOW TO BOOK Participants are selected on a first come, first serve basis and places are secured by payment of the workshop fee by cheque (payable to The Poetry School). The deadline for applications is Monday 29 September and there are 15 places available. If you wish to book a place, please contact Julia Bird, Coordinator, The Poetry School, 81 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6DX. Phone 0207 582 1679 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Helen Farish, Intimates, (Jonathan Cape, May 2005)

In association with The Poetry School.

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