www.pascalepetit.co.uk

     
Poetry from Art at Tate Modern photo by Masayo Matsuda                                       Poetry from Art at Tate Modern photo by Katie Snooks

Would you like help with your poems? I offer workshops and courses, including Poetry from Art at Tate Modern, Extending Your Boundaries at Chateau Ventenac in the Languedoc, France, 18-24 May 2013; Ty Newydd residential poetry course Sky in the Eye, with Pamela Robertson-Pearce, 15 – 20 July 2013; and Towards a Collection Online with The Poetry School, see below for further details for all courses. You can buy the online Towards a Collection course by visiting http://www.poetryschool.com/courses-workshops/downloads/towards-a-collection.php

"I find the classes amazing for taking me on journeys in writing I would never have embarked on by myself. The most creative poetry classes I have ever attended."
Nathalie Teitler

"Just wanted to thank you for such a magical week at the Chateau, it generated lots of ideas and I had a total shift in my thinking about poetry – and life."
Seraphima Kennedy

"I was impressed by how much material you helped us generate and how much we were  encouraged to revise in the few days we were together. It is one of the most productive courses I have attended, and of course, the setting was magnificent."
Kate Kingston

I was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art 2011-12, a core course tutor on the MSt (Master of Studies in creative writing) at Oxford University 2007–9, and I tutor for Tate Modern, the Arvon Foundation, and Ty Newydd. I mentored Mahfuz Mir Ali for Spread the Word's The Complete Works project, am a co-founding tutor of The Poetry School, give workshops/talks/readings in colleges and universities, and was Poetry Editor of Poetry London for fifteen years.

 Future Courses and Workshops

 
Poetry from Art at Tate Modern
Poetry-writing courses led by award winning poet Pascale Petit.
Transformations: Poetry from Art 25 Feb - 25 March  2013
Tate Modern throughout the galleries
Bankside, London SE1 9TG
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/courses-and-workshops/transformations-poetry-art
to book online or call 020 7887 8888
£120 (£90 concessions) for the term, booking essential
Price includes entry to exhibition and drinks in the Members Room after each class

Extending Your Boundaries – poetry writing course at Chateau Ventenac in the South of France with Pascale Petit 18–24 May 2013
 For more details and bookings http://www.chateaulifecourses.com/poetry-pascale-petit/
To book please email julia@chateauventenac.com phone ++44 (0) 7773 206344  or 0033 671 894990
May is the best time to experience the Languedoc. Chateau Ventenac sits beside the Canal du Midi in the South of France and offers fabulous views across the vineyards towards the Pyrenees. The surrounding landscape is of lush vineyards, wild causses, gorges and Cathar strongholds.

Do you wish you could go further and deeper in your poems, that you could transform the raw material of your life and imagination into poems that surprise you and the reader? This course will encourage you to explore what is important to you as a poet and offer inspiration and renewed energy. There will be plenty of exercises each morning to generate vivid imagery and fresh language, enabling you to produce new poems each day, drawing on a wealth of source material. As well as generating new work we will spend time discussing how to shape drafts into vivid and memorable art and how to get published. Be prepared to extend your boundaries during an enjoyable week of hard work and fun in the divine surroundings of the Château and Languedoc landscape. There will be a maximum of ten participants.

This course will develop creativity and free the imagination through women surrealists’ art and practices. Whether you are a poet, prose writer, visual artist, or just interested in the potential of surrealism to energise your work, this course will help you find an authentic voice for a sustained art practice.

 
Towards a Collection Online: a downloadable course from The Poetry School

To buy the course from The Poetry School please click here cost £10

When does a bunch of poems become a collection? How does a poet achieve book publication? Perhaps you have thirty poems you are pleased with and you wonder if you are ready to submit your manuscript. The aim of this course is to give guidance and advice towards compiling a collection and getting it published. This could be your first full-length book, a pamphlet, or an application for an Eric Gregory Award.

Towards a Collection is divided into ten lessons. In each lesson we'll look at different aspects of the process, starting with extending your creative limits, getting a track record in magazines, compiling a pamphlet, structuring and ordering a full-length volume, the function of poem and book titles, and the rigorous editing required to prepare a manuscript for submission. We'll also consider covers, publicity, what happens when you do get accepted, and what readers and publishers might be looking for.

Lessons:

• Extending Your Limits
• Getting Published in Magazines
• Pamphlet Publication and Other Opportunities
• Structuring a Collection
• Ordering a Collection
• Editing Poems Part One
• Editing Poems Part Two
• Titling Poems and Collections
• Submitting Manuscripts to Publishers
• From Manuscript to Book