Calendar 2012 (more dates soon)
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Poetry School sessions
I'm leading a weekly reading/writing/discussion group ('Staying Alive') on a term-time Monday in Exeter for the Poetry School; new term begins 9th January, 7pm; still places (www.poetryschool.com)
Thresholds
Intensive day retreat near Totnes, Saturday 21st January; see course details page
UNCUT Poets, Exeter Phoenix: I'm guest reader, Thursday 26th January, 7.30pm
Ground of Being
Dartmoor: re-imagining the world: poetry, land and silence, solstices and equinoxes. Sundays: March 18th 2012
A Poetical Landscape ('walkshop') Sunday 25th March, 1pm-4.30pm for South Devon AONB, at Hope Cove. Adult £4, child £2 (yes really!). Bookings to me; me outside fisherman's reading room, Inner Hope (isn't that lovely??) www.southdevonaonb.org.uk
Islands of the Heart annual creative writing retreat on Iona
Saturday (eve) April 21 to Friday morning April 27 FULL
Littorals
Poetry and land art (with Roselle, and Michael Fairfax): tba - probably May
Writing the Bright Moment:Zen & Poetry weekend retreat at the beautiful Barefoot Barn, Chagford, Devon; May 11th-13th. Details tba
'In a dark time the eye begins to see.' Poetry and story are tools for healing. We'll look at the stories of our own lives through this lens. Near Totnes tba
'If nobody speaks of remarkable things' The art of seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary, and the joy as well as the despair of being human at this time. Near Totnes tba
The Grail of the Heart (ongoing group to begin, tba)
Further day courses in progress:
The Pairs of Opposites
Riding the Big Waves
Ongoing courses
Elements of Poetry
6-month correspondence course; next one begins January 2012 (If this link doesn’t click through, go to Courses, hover until Correspondence Courses appears, hover until Poetry Correspondence Course appears, click)
Storymaking
6-month intensive novel writing correspondence course. You can sign up for this at any time.