As promised last week, here is my presentation of the paper I co-wrote with Sue Dymoke in which we argue on the importance of social networks in poets’ development.
I shall present this paper at the Great Writing conference, Saturday 23 June, 2018.
You can download my slides here: Poetry as a socially mediated process_Great Writing_June 2018
Image: The New York Poets: l-r: back: Patsy Southgate, Bill Berkson, John Ashbery; front: Frank O’Hara, Kenneth Koch.
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I am a lecturer, poet and writing tutor. I work in teacher and medical education at the University of Exeter. My anthology Lifesaving Poems, based on the blog of the same name, is available from Bloodaxe Books. Love for Now, my memoir of cancer, is published by Impress Books. Deck Shoes, a book of prose memoir and criticism, and The Afterlife, my fifth book of poems, are available now from Impress Books and Worple Press. My current research project is Young Poets' Stories: https://youngpoetsstories.com/. This blog is archived by the British Library.
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This was of such interest to me. To date my involvement with poetry has been through interaction with poets and poems . Somewhat late in the day I have set about trying to develop my own poetry writing. I have just completed an online course ‘How to Make a Poem’ put forward by Manchester University. I so recommend this course. It gives a fledgling writer the support, structure and encouragement to’ have a go’. This online means of development would seem to be a ‘technological affordance’ (a new term for me), which has opened up a whole new world, one which has inspired, educated and supported me – a would be poetry writer.
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