I'd go to as many readings / performances as possible.
It's a live art (as well)
I'd also study something else.
I studied trad englit. It was a good course... But the best thing I did was
to switch my attention to computer science as a study... That's *my bag;
but *something else is good
L
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Clark" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 25 January 2002 11:14
Subject: Re: Newbie
| 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?
| >
| >
| >
| > 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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