I think I answered the question wrongly. I was talking about
Creative Writing Courses which are a very different thing
from courses in Contemporary Poetry. The only advice is to
read everything and to read, read, read. It is much more
important than writing for someone new to the game.
There are three main libraries for contemporary poetry in
the UK and you might be lucky enough to live near one.
They are the Scottish POetry Library in EDinburgh, the
Northern POetry Library at Morpeth in Northumberland
and the POetry LIbrary at the South Bank Centre in London.
You want to spend a year or two reading one of these out.
Obviously there are other libraries but I doubt if they
will be as comprehensive. In poetry self-education is vital
to form one's own individual taste. Otherwise you risk
turning up as a clone of the person who teaches you.
Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Douglas Clark wrote:
> Regarding UK Creative Writing courses I have to say that I
> have no idea, but they are mushrooming everywhere. There
> is even a prominent one in Bath. Whereabouts would you like
> to go and what poets would you like to discuss with are
> the questions to be asked. I wonder if the POetry Society
> has any information because hunting through the full college
> prospectuses would be daunting. If you asked this question
> on the British-poets mailing list you would probably get
> a blinkered opinion but where would you like to go?
>
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> Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
> Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
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