Folksongs of Here and Now

Folksongs can have enormous power: the best mix specificity of landscape with universality of emotion. But in order to have resonance, they must ring true. This poetry workshop will invite ways to write modern-day folk-like poems: ones which acknowledge and enfold the contemporary, rather than smoothing experience into flat nostalgia. Folksongs for our times need motorways as much as moss. We’ll read poems by contemporary poets like Clare Shaw and discuss how to look both forward and back in time.

Tutor: Penny Boxall MA

Term: Autumn

Day: Saturday

Start Date: 16 November 2024

Time: 10am-1pm

No. of weeks: 1

Full fee: £30

This course will be delivered via Zoom. Students joining the course will need access to a computer, laptop or tablet with a microphone (essential) and a webcam (desirable), as well as a reliable broadband connection.

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