Writing from Art

Writing from Art: Uncertainty in the City with Ian Seed

Thursdays 23rd and 30th September, 7th, 14th, 28th October and 4th November 7-9pm

The Poetry Bookcase and Storey Gallery, at Storey Creative Industries Centre, Meeting House Lane, Lancaster LA1 1TH

Are you afraid of dark spaces? What do you feel about animals that wander through the streets at night? Have you ever stumbled across a fox or a badger just outside your door?  Or discovered rats in your loft?  Is there a clear boundary between pet and pest? Do animals encroach on our spaces, or is it we who encroach on theirs? Could we ever celebrate a sense of shared space with those who have become strangers to us?

In response to the Storey Gallery autumn art exhibition, we will explore these and other fascinating questions through discussion and the writing of either poetry and prose.

There will be a complementory guided talk with the curator of the exhibition, Suzy Jones, on Thursday 21st October for all participants.

Ian Seed teaches Creative Writing at the University of Cumbria. He has run creative writing workshops in a variety of settings: museums, schools, colleges, community centres, hospitals and prisons. Ian's poems, fiction, translations and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines, pamphlets and anthologies. His first full-length collection of poetry, Anonymous Intruder, is published by Shearsman Books. His translations of the Italian poet, Ivano Fermini, will be published in late 2010 by Oystercatcher Press.

TO BOOK:

With a credit card, by paypal through the litfest website;

Send a cheque of the appropriate amount made payable to Lancaster and District Festival and post it to Sarah Hymas, Litfest, The Storey, Meeting House Lane, Lancaster, LA1 1TH;

Please also include your postal address, email address if you have one and phone number in case we need to contact you.

Or bob by the Poetry Bookcase at the same address with either a cheque or cash.

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And for more information on other writing workshops this autumn, go to the Get Writing page of the Litfest website