Poetry Classes
A former lecturer in English & Creative Writing, (her ‘Women and Mother Ireland’ was published in Image & Power, Longman, 1995), Anne-Marie gives seminars for poets and readers of poetry (lasting from one-hour to all-day to six-week courses) on significant poets’ poets, with in-depth analysis of the work, together with context, lives, letters and early literary leanings. Frequently requested “subjects” include Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, Jane Kenyon, Eavan Boland…
Photos: Paul Stephenson
Venues
Festivals and organisations who’ve hosted Anne-Marie’s workshops, talks & poetry classes include:
- The Voyage Out tour including Cushendall; Crickhowell; Felixstowe; Boston MA; Martha’s Vineyard; Yarmouth ME; Bangor ME; Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; Lunenburg, Nova Scotia; Launceston, Cornwall; Stromness, Orkney; Clachtoll, Assynt; Findhorn, Moray; Lochmaddy, North Uist; Cork, Duncannon, Co. Wexford; Swansea; Torbay; and Earls Court
- Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation, Carmel CA
- Lenoir Rhyne University, Hickory NC
- L’Age Baston, Angoulême, Charente
- Faber Academy, London
- Cornwall Contemporary Poetry Festival, Falmouth
- Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
- Aldeburgh South Beach lookout
- Charles Causley Festival, Launceston
- Arundel Festival
- Ulster University International Literary Festival
- Richard Jeffries Museum, Swindon
- UNC, Chapel Hill NC
- Buzzwords, Cheltenham
UNiversity of North Florida, Jacksonville FL - Carson Newman College, Jefferson City TN
- St Hilda’s College, Oxford
- Bath Poetry Café
- Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville NY
- Almassera Vella, Relleu, Alicante
- Place Basse, Caux, Languedoc
- Suffolk Poetry Society
- Chateau Ventenac, Languedoc
- The Really Big Dream, Montmelard, Burgundy
- American International University, Richmond
- Poetry on the Lake, Orta
- Ledbury Poetry Festival
- Arvon Foundation
- Marlborough Literature Festival
- British Library
- Ballyeamon Barn
- Ohio University, Athens OH
- South Downs Poetry Festival
- Swindon Poets
- Goldsmiths College
- Univ. North Florida, Jacksonville FL
- Univ. Mississippi, Oxford MS
- Ballyeamon Barn, Cushendall
- Boyne Music Festival, Drogheda
- Let Me Take You to the Island Festival on Rathlin Island
- North London Collegiate School
- University of East Anglia
- Keats House, Hampstead
- Falmouth Poetry Group
- Dungannon and Omagh Public Libraries
- South Downs Poetry Festival
- Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea
&* Penzance Stanza - Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana
- Camden Poets
- Aspects Irish Literature Festival, Bangor, Co. Down
- Notre Dame University in London
- Univ. Maryland, College Park MD
- Lyth Arts Centre, Caithness
- Mendham Writers/Waltham Forest Literary Festival
- Wallace Collection, London
- Marlborough Literature Festival
- Ó Bhéal, Cork
- Off the Shelf, Sheffield
- Dulwich College
- Write-by-the-Sea, St. Ives
- St. Mary’s University College, Strawberry Hill
- American International University, Richmond, Surrey
- Tonbridge School
- Auburn University, Auburn AL
- Age Concern, London
- Kingston University
- Swindon Literary Festival
- Torbay Poetry Festival
- Bethlem & Maudsley Hospital School, Beckenham
- Bluegate Poets, Swindon
- Hunter College, NY
- Westchester Poetry Festival, NY
- Northern Valley Regional High Poetry Festival, NJ
in addition to Coffee-House Poetry and the John Hewitt International Summer School, plus libraries, prisons, schools & community groups…
