The poems referred to in Session Two will be poster here after Friday's class
Please note that there will be no class on Friday 8 October as I will be away. An extra class will be added on the the end of the course.
Exercise
for Friday 15 October
Go the Van Gogh Gallery. Or any other online or real art gallery. If you're in the neighbourhood of Parnell Square you could drop into the Hugh Lane Gallery. Choose one of the paintings that you find interesting. Look carefully at your painting now, its textures, shapes, tones and emotions; observe the various objects in its composition.
In this exercise, you will learn how a poem can be saturated with images.
Imagine that you are some thing in the painting and try to write a poem from that point of view. When you begin to write, speak in your poem as though you have become that thing in the painting. Step inside the painting and imagine that you are actually there, standing, observing, smelling, and tasting the things around you in the painting.
