welcome
from Coffee-House Poetry organiser, Anne-Marie Fyfe
September (see right) & they’re gathering outside already – not hatching Hitchcockian plots, just planning the winter vacation, so like humans… Or is it that we’re so bird-like, so ornithologically inspired, as writers, in our desire to metamorph, take off, to wing it, to glide, to swoop, to soar, to see the earth-bound world from a bird’s-eye perspective?
A chance to try out your creative wings this autumn: email me asap on coffpoetry@aol.com if interested.
And a reminder that our 2023 judges for the Troubadour International Poetry Prize are Mona Arshi, Visiting Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, & Tom Sleigh, Distinguished Professor at New York’s Hunter College.
£3,500 in prizes, with winners invited to read with judges (live & online) at West London’s Bedford Park Festival ‘Yeats Birthday’ reading next June, & with all prize proceeds going to support the WB Yeats Bedford Park Artwork Project.
Poems on any theme, all via email submission & online payment, full details on our prizes page!
Meantime, Between the Lines is back with a new autumn masterclass, six great new poets to explore collectively via email handouts & discussion, plus you’ll be writing one new poem per week in response, to be workshopped by course-tutor Cahal Dallat & a super group of fellow-masterclass poets with a Zoom get-together at the end (via email & Zoom, click here for details).
Also, from the start of September, for nine weeks, we’re sharing home thoughts (in Home Truth: Architecture & Longing), unearthing home truths, discovering a world we think we know so well (or do we?) in the here & now, in the past, in our dreams of the future, in floor plans & secret spaces. A unique poetic journey to the heart of ‘home’, (by email/Zoom, click here for details).
classes & courses
- sun 8 oct, 2.30-5pm, £24: land of heart’s desire: wb yeats literary walk with cahal dallat for “wb yeats bedford park project”
- sun 24 sep—sat 25 nov, £280: the avian eye: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
- fri 8 sep—sat 28 oct, £280: between the lines #13, a 7-wk close reading & critical masterclass with cahal dallat
- sun 3 sep—sat 4 nov, £280: home truth: architecture & longing: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
- sun 23 jul—sat 23 sep, £280: taking a walk: the poetry of footfall: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
- sun 28 may—sat 29 jul, £280: taking a walk: the poetry of footfall: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
- sun 5 mar—sat 6 may, £280: nocturne: a 9-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
- fri 3 mar—sat 29 apr: between the lines #12 – focus on form#2, a 7-wk close reading & critical masterclass with cahal dallat
- sun 15 jan—sat 18 mar: solitary spaces: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series on solitude, with anne-marie fyfe
See full details of classes and workshops
readings
- Wed 14 Jun, 7.30 for 8pm, Bedford Park Festival celebrates Yeats’s Birthday: Only My Dreams with special guest Marina Warner …plus London and local poets, hosted by Anne-Marie Fyfe & Cahal Dallat
