Poetry - The Next Steps
Zoom Writing Workshop with Mandy Pannett
Poetry - The Next Steps
Six-session online workshop, 1 - 1.5 hours per session, live teaching, via Zoom.
The length of the sessions varies depending on the session topic and the questions and discussions that arise.
Sessions will be a minimum of one hour.
Only ten places available on this workshop.
Starting Tuesday 1st November at 7.15pm for six weeks ending 6th December 2022
Times shown: Greenwich Mean Time
If you are interested in future dates for this workshop please email: [email protected]
Workshop fee: £159.99
(meeting invite will be sent out a couple of days prior to the workshop)
Only ten places available on this workshop.
Starting Tuesday 1st November at 7.15pm for six weeks ending 6th December 2022
Times shown: Greenwich Mean Time
If you are interested in future dates for this workshop please email: [email protected]
Workshop fee: £159.99
(meeting invite will be sent out a couple of days prior to the workshop)
Workshop Outline
Workshop Outline:
Sessions will be interactive with chance for discussions and questions. There will be short writing exercises within the session and optional follow-up work afterwards. The focus of the sessions will be on using your senses to be attentive to the world around you, allowing connections to develop and being open to all the possibilities of language.
Week 1: Poetry Landscapes and a Sense of Place – This session will kick off with a discussion about your inner landscape. Then you'll move onto thinking about the atmosphere of landscapes and how to create the same feeling in a poem. Next you'll look at place names and including figures in your poem
Week 2: A Choice of Words – This week you'll be exploring the senses to bring life to your poems. You'll then move onto examining: Germanic words, writing monosyllabic poems, kennings, naming things, word chains, associations and finally, weird and wonderful words.
Week 3: The Emotional Content of Poems – Here you'll be looking at links between sound and feeling through assonance, dissonance, alliteration and so forth. You'll examine finding the heart of a poem, trigger and discovery of a poem, the poetic turn and how to end a poem.
Week 4: Form and Shape In Poetry – In this session you'll look at using form and shape to match content, different kinds of layout and open field poems. You'll finish off by thinking about poems that are about or using the alphabet.
Week 5: Types of Sentences – This week you'll learn about how to use different types of sentences to add variety and interest to your poems. You then go on to look at writing from different perspectives. Finally you will examine connectives to help you develop tone and mood in a poem.
Week 6: Variations and Techniques – In this final session you'll be thinking about titles and opening lines. Mandy will go through some poetic devices you can use to add variety to you poems.
This workshop is run by Budding Writers in partnership with The Writers Bureau.Workshop Leader
Mandy Pannett
Mandy Pannett lives in West Sussex. She taught children with special needs for many years but now works freelance as a creative writing tutor for adults.
Her poetry pamphlet ‘The Daedalus Files’ was published by SPM Publications in 2021. Five poetry collections have been previously published: ‘Bee Purple’ and ‘Frost Hollow’ (Oversteps Books), ‘Allotments in the Orbital’ (Searle Publishing), ‘All the Invisibles’ (SPM Publications), ‘Jongleur in the Courtyard’ (Indigo Dreams Publishing). A selection of her poems, ‘Ladders of Glass’, was issued by Integral Contemporary Literature Press with English and Romanian parallel texts.
She enjoys writing short fiction as well and two years ago won a national competition for Vignette writing. She has also judged competitions for Flash Fiction. Two novellas have been published by Independent Presses: ‘The Onion Stone’ (Pewter Rose Press) and ‘The Wulf Enigma’ (Circaidy Gregory Press).
Mandy was also poetry editor for five years for Sentinel Literary Quarterly and has edited anthologies and poetry collections for them and for Earlyworks Press. She has acted as an adjudicator for national competitions and won prizes and been placed herself in several others.
For the last eighteen months she has been collaborating with artist Polly Dutton and musicians Terry Pack and The Full Circle Quartet on ‘The South Downs Suite’, a poetry/music/art project inspired by the South Downs. The Suite is currently being performed at several venues in the area and a book of all the art work and poetry is on sale at events and in galleries and museums.
Her poetry pamphlet ‘The Daedalus Files’ was published by SPM Publications in 2021. Five poetry collections have been previously published: ‘Bee Purple’ and ‘Frost Hollow’ (Oversteps Books), ‘Allotments in the Orbital’ (Searle Publishing), ‘All the Invisibles’ (SPM Publications), ‘Jongleur in the Courtyard’ (Indigo Dreams Publishing). A selection of her poems, ‘Ladders of Glass’, was issued by Integral Contemporary Literature Press with English and Romanian parallel texts.
She enjoys writing short fiction as well and two years ago won a national competition for Vignette writing. She has also judged competitions for Flash Fiction. Two novellas have been published by Independent Presses: ‘The Onion Stone’ (Pewter Rose Press) and ‘The Wulf Enigma’ (Circaidy Gregory Press).
Mandy was also poetry editor for five years for Sentinel Literary Quarterly and has edited anthologies and poetry collections for them and for Earlyworks Press. She has acted as an adjudicator for national competitions and won prizes and been placed herself in several others.
For the last eighteen months she has been collaborating with artist Polly Dutton and musicians Terry Pack and The Full Circle Quartet on ‘The South Downs Suite’, a poetry/music/art project inspired by the South Downs. The Suite is currently being performed at several venues in the area and a book of all the art work and poetry is on sale at events and in galleries and museums.
By taking part in this workshop you will:
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meet other writers and poets
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have time to ask questions as there are only ten participants per group
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learn how to come up with new ideas
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develop an understanding of how to bring life to a poem in a variety of ways
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learn how to use different techniques to convey what you are trying to say
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have chance to practice a variety of poetry techniques
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have 60 lines of poetry assessed by Mandy
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gain increased self-confidence to take your poetry forward on your own.
Starting Tuesday 1st November 2022 at 7.15pm for six weeks ending 6th December 2022
Workshop fee: £159.99