EVERYTHING CAN YET HAPPEN: breaking new ground in writing poetry | Online workshop with Vanessa Lampert | Monday 30th October – Friday 3rd November
Monday 30th October – Friday 3rd November
Everything can yet happen: breaking new ground in writing poetry A 1-week, online, poetry retreat with award-winning poet and inspirational teacher, editor and mentor, Vanessa Lampert. Embark upon a new journey with language. Destination exciting. Maps provided. Buckle up!
Join us for this transformational deep dive into technique and process in our online week- long retreat. Each exciting day includes dynamic morning sessions – live online, in a small, supportive group; time in the afternoon to develop your writing or have a 1:1 tutorial with Vanessa; and, in the evening, the unique opportunity to attend and participate in events and readings.
You will take risks and leaps of faith with your writing, and learn how to understand more fully the techniques and tools available to take your poems to a new level, while making new friends in an inspirational and encouraging atmosphere.
The week includes 12 workshops, a 30-min 1:1 tutorial looking at your own work with Vanessa, 2 reading evenings, a poetry problems surgery, an open mic (with family and friends if you wish) and a private celebration at the end of the week.
Places on the retreat are limited to 12.
Fee £400
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About Vanessa:
Vanessa Lampert is an acupuncturist and poet from Oxfordshire. Since 2020, she has won the Café Writers, Edward Thomas, and Sentinel prizes and the Ver Poetry prize twice. She has come second in the Fish, Yeovil, Oxford Brookes, Ware, and Kent & Sussex prizes and was commended in the National Poetry Competition 2020.
Vanessa’s work is recently published in Magma, The Moth, The Oxford Times, Finished Creatures, Five Dials, Poetry Wales and The Daily Telegraph. She runs courses at Ty Newydd Wales and workshops for Hive, South Yorkshire, Aldeburgh Festival, Poetry School London, Stanza groups nationwide and as a volunteer in schools. During the pandemic she taught poetry to schoolchildren in India via Learning with Leaders.
Vanessa is a co-founder of and editor for ‘The Alchemy Spoon Magazine’.
Vanessa’s pamphlet ‘On Long Loan’ was published by Live Canon in 2020, and her full collection ‘Say It With Me’ by Seren, to much acclaim, in 2023.
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Do you want to develop your writing, and move beyond your current boundaries to find new ways of using your voice? Then this week-long course is for you.
Each morning has three workshops: a short creative preparation session, followed by an inspirational hour. Then, after a break, a more focussed look at essential tools and techniques to help you become a better poet and a better editor of your work.
The course is also suitable for beginner poets who are not afraid to step outside their comfort zone – the course is fast-paced but no one will be left behind.
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The main sessions are led by award-winning poet and inspirational teacher and mentor, Vanessa Lampert. A mid-week, award-winning guest reader will also offer a Q&A.
Each day will start with some creativity exercises from writer, poet and mentor, Kate Oldfield, to get you in flow.
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Live sessions. On Zoom.
Sessions open 5 minutes before teaching so we can start promptly.
Please check that you have reliable broadband signal, an internal space free from background noise, and that your microphone and camera work before the first session.
We can offer some tech advice to anyone who needs it before the course starts.
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Monday 30th October to Friday 3rd November 2023
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One concession place is available on every week-long retreat – please contact Kate if you wish to apply for this.
Early-bird fee of £375 available to those booking before midnight Sunday 29th September (quoting EARLYBIRD)
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“For anyone looking for the words to what it means to be human look no further: they are here.
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“Lampert is one of the most enthralling new poets writing in – and of – the great aftermath of England.”
“Vanessa Lampert has a rare talent for telling stories which, although they come from a place deeply personal to her, become universal in their rendering.
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