Poetry Workshops
Anne-Marie has taught facilitatory & critical workshops for many years, founded Wordworks at Richmond-upon-Thames College (1993) and founded (& taught for many years) the creative-writing strand of the John Hewitt International Summer School.
Over the years she has developed a portfolio of unique ‘themed workshops’, mostly premiered at the Troubadour and offered to writers’ groups & venues/festivals everywhere. Each of these frequently-oversubscribed ‘themed-workshop’ days allows writers & would-be writers to explore their own experiences of, & imaginative responses to, a chosen theme, through a range of resources & techniques, through examples from literature & the wider culture, through visual imagery & through led exercises, resulting in finished work in each session, & in constructive mutual criticism.
Literature Classes
Some seminar subjects…
- Emily Dickinson
- Thomas Hardy
- Eavan Boland
- Robert Lowell
- Anne Sexton
- Sylvia Plath
- Seamus Heaney
- Jane Kenyon
- Elizabeth Bishop
Theme Titles
Themed-workshop titles include:
- Journey without Maps
- Exploring Rooms
- Shadows in the Cave (on cinema)
- The Prose Poem
- Feeling for Snow
- Beyond the Sea
- Stranger than Fiction
- Late Collection (on letters)
- Sun in an Empty Room (Edward Hopper’s paintings)
- Birdsong
- The Dark Side
- Charting the Heavens
- The Lure of Libraries
- Going Home
- Reflections (on mirrors)
- The Summer House
- Brief Encounters (on railways…)
- Ocean’s Edge
- Dreaming The Island
- Winter Journey
- Fly me to the Moon
- Writing Space
- Under my Umbrella
- Perfume
- Sounds of Silence
- Rear Window (on cars)
- A Life of One’s Own
- Honey Still For Tea?
- Behind the Big Top (on circus & carnival)
- To Sleep, Perchance
- The Overcoat
- Gloomy Sunday
- Late Check-Out (on hotels & motels)
Venues
Festivals and organisations who’ve hosted Anne-Marie’s workshops, talks & poetry classes include:
- Almassera Vella, Relleu, Alicante
- Place Basse, Caux, Languedoc
- Faber Academy
- 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
- Keats House, Hampstead
- Dungannon and Omagh Public Libraries
- Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea
- Aspects Irish Literature Festival, Bangor, Co. Down
- Notre Dame University (London)
- Lyth Arts Centre, Caithness
- Mendham Writers/Waltham Forest Literary Festival
- Wallace Collection
- O’Bheal, Cork
- 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
- Bluegate Poets, Swindon (forthcoming)
in addition to Coffee-House Poetry and the John Hewitt International Summer School, plus libraries, prisons, schools & community groups…
