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NEW IN DECEMBER
DECEMBER POETRY WORKSHOP
Please note that this is a four week course from 1st to 31st December 2023
4 weeks of holiday poetry fun to fit around your shopping and holiday preparations. Poetry exercises that will inspire you to engage with the season like never before. We will be looking to develop poems from the small events and the large, from the personal to nature and the time of year. This will be a fun workshop with the serious intent to produce some fine poetry. The course will be conducted online over three weeks, at a cost of £30 –
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Every month we have many short courses that take place over three weeks. These cover many subjects in poetry from Ekphrastic Poetry to poetry in Times of Change. There is something for everyone and we are adding to our course availability each month. In addition each summer we have our Summer School and in December the December Poetry Workshop.
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MENTORING
Our most popular course is the longer mentoring programme. This lasts from 3 to 6 months depending on response times from the participant. All mentoring is with Jim Bennett and is individually designed to meet the needs of the participant. The cost of this is £110 but places are limited. For further details or to enrol for this course, go to mentoring (poetrykit.org)
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