Poetry Workshops
Anne-Marie has taught facilitatory & critical workshops for many years, founded Wordworks at Richmond-upon-Thames College (1993) and founded (& taught for many years) the creative-writing strand of the John Hewitt International Summer School.
Over the years she has developed a portfolio of unique ‘themed workshops’, mostly premiered at the Troubadour and offered to writers’ groups & venues/festivals everywhere. Each of these frequently-oversubscribed ‘themed-workshop’ days allows writers & would-be writers to explore their own experiences of, & imaginative responses to, a chosen theme, through a range of resources & techniques, through examples from literature & the wider culture, through visual imagery & through led exercises, resulting in finished work in each session, & in constructive mutual criticism.
Literature Classes
Some seminar subjects…
- Emily Dickinson
- Thomas Hardy
- Eavan Boland
- Robert Lowell
- Anne Sexton
- Sylvia Plath
- Seamus Heaney
- Jane Kenyon
- Elizabeth Bishop
Theme Titles
Themed-workshop titles include:
- Smoke & Mirrors
- And the Rains Came
- Edge of the Depths
- As I Write This Letter
- In the Clouds
- Journey without Maps
- A Long Dark Night
- A Tree Grows
- River Deep
- Exploring Rooms
- Stop All The Clocks!
- Shadows in the Cave (on cinema)
- The Prose Poem
- Let it Snow!
- Relative Values
- Charting the Heavens
- A Bridge Too Far
- To Sleep, Perchance
- Stranger than Fiction
- An Exaltation of Larks
- Sun in an Empty Room (Edward Hopper’s paintings)
- Late Check-Out (on hotels & motels)
- The Dark Side
- The Lure of Libraries
- Seeing Red!
- Locked Rooms
- The Eye of the Storm
- Going Home
- Dawning Reality
- Self Portrait
- The Summer House
- Brief Encounters (on railways…)
- The Art of Losing
- Ocean’s Edge
- Mapping the Island
- Winter Journey
- Fly me to the Moon
- Writing Space
- Under my Umbrella
- Perfume
- Sounds of Silence
- Rear Window (on cars)
- A Life of One’s Own
- Honey Still For Tea?
- Behind the Big Top (on circus & carnival)
- The Overcoat
- Gloomy Sunday
Venues
Festivals and organisations who’ve hosted Anne-Marie’s workshops, talks & poetry classes include:
- Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation, Carmel CA
- L’Age Baston, Angoulême, Charente
- Faber Academy, London
- Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
- Aldeburgh South Beach lookout
- Ulster University International Literary Festival
- Richard Jeffries Museum, Swindon
- Buzzwords, Cheltenham
- 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
- 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
- Tonbridge School
- 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…
