Official Canadian Poetry Association Lit-serv

One-day Poetry Courses coming this Saturday June 14
The Language of Poetry:
By developing a heightened awareness of language-use students will write poems rich in linguistic verve. In-class assignments will be varied and consist of exercises using metaphor, rhythm, rhyme and meter to write active and imaginative poetry. We will also look at tightening language and taking leaps.
In addition to creating new pieces in class, students will look at the work of other poets and each other’s work.
This is an intensive, one-day class to help stir the imagination toward poetry.
Course runs from 10-4 on Saturday June 14 @ Cost $80
Minimum 4 students required to run
Location to be announced
Contact Yvonne Blomer at 250-380-5125/ yblomer@shaw.ca
Please contact Yvonne by June 6 if you are interested and ready to register.
Bio: Yvonne Blomer completed her MA in Creative Writing at The University of East Anglia in 2006. Her work has won awards and been published internationally. Most recently she was a finalist in the Descant/ Winston Collins Prize for Best Canadian Poem and in the CBC Literary Awards in 2007. Her first book, a broken mirror, fallen leaf, released in the spring of 2006, was short listed for Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for Poetry. Yvonne has been teaching private courses in poetry and memoir for several years.