Finding the Poem with Paul Lyalls

Complete beginners to poetry sought; relative newcomers very welcome; seasoned poets, come along too! This is a course for anyone who wants to liberate their creativity and immerse themselves in the joy of language. Playful, fun, entertaining, enlightening – explore your word power with Paul Lyalls.

A note to prose writers: have you ever wondered what it is like to write in the poetic form? Perhaps you write in prose automatically, but would like to try to use language in another way. If your fiction needs a lift, if your life-writing needs lilt, if your central characters don’t quite sing (or even if they do!) you can free your writing through poetry. Zoom delivery. Cost £140

Paul has four sets of workshops which can be taken in any order:

Autumn One (Set 3): Evenings Mondays 6.30-9pm Sept 12, 19, 26, Oct 3, 10, 17.

Set 3: The good, the bard and the imagery...

Week 1) How to show fast and slow (momentum in writing)

Week 2) Heart and soul of the people we know (not T'pau)

Week 3) Rooms

Week 4) Wants & desire via road trip to India

Week 5) The cinema within a moment

Week 6) What's So Funny? Comedy in poetry

Autumn Two (Set 4): Evenings Mondays 6.30-9pm Nov 7, 14, 21, 28, Dec 5, 12

Set 4: Writers on the storm...

1) Making headlines for all the write reasons

2) Camera, lights, action and the kodak moment. The writer's camera.

3) Guilty pleasure repent at leisure.

4) Walking with Aladdin.

5) Should have, would have, could have.

6) Speculative poetry, shaping the unshapeable.