Poetry Classes
A former lecturer in English & Creative Writing, (her ‘Women and Mother Ireland’ was published in Image & Power, Longman, 1995), Anne-Marie gives seminars for poets and readers of poetry (lasting from one-hour to all-day to six-week courses) on significant poets’ poets, with in-depth analysis of the work, together with context, lives, letters and early literary leanings. Frequently requested “subjects” include Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, Jane Kenyon, Eavan Boland…
Venues
Festivals and organisations who’ve hosted Anne-Marie’s workshops, talks & poetry classes include:
- Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
- Ledbury Poetry Festival
- Goldsmiths College
- Let Me Take You to the Island Festival on Rathlin Island
- North London Collegiate School
- University of East Anglia
- Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea
- Aspects Irish Literature Festival, Bangor, Co. Down
- Notre Dame University (London)
- Lyth Arts Centre, Caithness
- Wallace Collection
- Off the Shelf, Sheffield
- Dulwich College
- Write-by-the-Sea, St. Ives
- St. Mary’s University College, Strawberry Hill
- Tonbridge School
- Age Concern, London
- Kingston University
- Swindon Literary Festival
- Torbay Poetry Festival
- Bethlem & Maudsley Hospital School, Beckenham
in addition to Coffee-House Poetry and the John Hewitt International Summer School, plus libraries, prisons, schools & community groups…
