Knowing how poems are made is a help in
knowing how to read them: the ideal experience of reading a poem is, in many
respects, close to the experience of writing it: one goes through uncertainty,
flashes of perception, small satisfactions, puzzlement, understanding,
surprise. A reader who knows how poetry is made has a better chance of
responding to what is there. - Kenneth Koch
I'm really looking forward to getting my 'Appreciation of
Poetry' course started in just over a fortnight, on Wednesday, 5 October.
Themes will include: ways of understanding and reading a poem; how poetry is
made; the sonnet; the villanelle and forms of rhyme; poetry in free verse;
language and vision in ekphrasis; the haiku; image, nature and description;
common things: poetry of the antipoetic and spoken word. We'll explore the work
of the poets below as well as RS Thomas, Wendy Cope, Patrick Kavanagh, Lucille
Clifton, Sylvia Plath & Bronwyn Lea. Only a few days left to register (before 28 September)! Contact Berna Morgan, Adult Education, NUI Galway, Nuns Island, berna.morgan@nuigalway.ie, 091-494055 for further information and see page 10 of the Short
Courses booklet: http://www.nuigalway.ie/…/fil…/Short-Courses-Series-2016.pdf See also my
last post with full details.
No comments:
Post a Comment