Waymaking, Buxton Adeventure Festival April 9th 2019

After a busy start to 2019, April sees IDP poet Geraldine Green reading at the Buxton Adventure Festival on April 9^th. Geraldine says she’s delighted to be reading her poem ‘Signs’ from the Waymaking anthology published by Vertebrate Press, and poems from her IDP collections, Passing Through, Salt Road and The Other Side of the Bridge.

She’ll be reading alongside another IDP poet Kathleen Jones, as well as Polly Atkin and Ruth Wiggins. Host is Claire Carter, of Kendal Mountain Events / Kendal Mountain Media Ltd. There’ll be time afterwards for questions from the audience.

You can find out more here: Waymaking, Buxton Adventure Festival April 9th

Midsummer Poetry Course, June 24-26 2019, Brantwood Coniston Cumbria UK

Coniston water

June 2019: Midsummer Poetry Course
 Brantwood, Coniston, Cumbria, UK, with experienced tutors and published poets George Wallace and Geraldine Green, Monday - Wednesday, 24th-26th June 2019

Brantwood Coniston East of Lake

The beautiful grounds and gardens of Brantwood with Coniston Water, the Old Man and Dow Crag across the lake, the light and airy classroom next to Ruskin’s Studio all provide a relaxing and inspirational setting in which to write and reflect.

Coniston and the Old Man

Place and the Imagination:

How does place influence your poetry? How do we create poems that are anchored in the senses yet are free to explore inner or imagined places? Imagination-based poetry moves away from the traditional approach to writing poetry and, through dreams, the unconscious and surrealism, allows the writer to create space for the imagination to explore, invent and roam.

Workshops will comprise a series of writing prompts and a variety of stimuli enabling you to create new poems in a supportive environment. There will be time for group and tutor feedback as well as one to one tutorials. Some sessions will take place outdoors. Non-residential option available.  Meals and refreshments provided.

Mon 2.00pm – Wed 2.00pm.  £255 per person

Accommodation: The Lodge and the Coachman’s Quarters, Brantwood: The B&B rate is £55 per person per room/£35 per person shared occupancy/£35 per night single room

Residential and non-residential options available. Booking is through Brantwood

*early booking is advisable*

Tel: 015394 41396

Email: enquiries at brantwood.org.uk

www.brantwood.org.uk

Information on co-tutors can be found here:
George Wallace

Geraldine Green

George is writer-in-residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace Long Island, New York.
Geraldine will be the writer-in-residence, 2019, at The Quaker Tapestry, Kendal, Cumbria

Poetry on the Terrace, Brantwood Coniston, March 17th 2019

Poetry Afternoon, Open Mic and Refreshments - March 17th 2019, 3-5pm, 
in The Terrace Café Brantwood, Coniston East of Lake, Cumbria

Come and join host Geraldine Green, who’s delighted to be reading with guest poets Pippa Little, Kerry Darbishire and Kathleen Jones

8 open mic slots available, early booking recommended!

Booking is through Brantwood

More info here

Place and the Imagination: Midsummer Poetry at Brantwood, June 24th-26th 2019

Mon 24th – Wed 26th June 2019

Place and the Imagination - Midsummer Poetry Course with Geraldine Green & George Wallace

How does place influence your poetry? How do we create poems that are anchored in the senses yet are free to explore inner or imagined places? Imagination-based poetry moves away from the traditional approach to writing poetry and, through dreams, the unconscious and surrealism, allows the writer to create space for the imagination to explore, invent and roam.

Workshops will comprise a series of writing prompts and a variety of stimuli enabling you to create new poems in a supportive environment. There will be time for group and tutor feedback as well as one to one tutorials. Some sessions will take place outdoors. * Non-residential option available.  All materials and refreshments provided.

Mon 2.00pm – Wed 2.00pm.  £255 per person

Booking is through Brantwood early booking is advisable!

October Writing Retreat, Brantwood, 11th-14th October 2019

11th – 14th October 2019

Creative Writing Retreat with Geraldine Green and Pippa Little

AUTUMN IN THE LAKES  - OCTOBER WRITING RETREAT

11^th-14^th October 2019

Come and join Pippa Little and Geraldine Green on a 4-day residential poetry course at Brantwood, Coniston Cumbria, former home of John Ruskin. Brantwood is beautiful at any time of year and autumn in the Lakes is especially magical.

Using a variety of writing prompts and stimuli new writing will be produced in a safe and friendly environment. There will be an opportunity for group feedback at the end of each session and one-to-one tutorials with Geraldine and Pippa. 

There’ll also be time to enjoy your own quiet writing time, if you choose.

Pippa and Geraldine will give a reading on Friday evening and you’re all welcome to read a poem or two on Saturday evening when the group give a reading to the tutors.  

Residential and non-residential options are available.

Friday 2.00pm – Monday 2.00pm.  £285 per person

Booking is through Brantwood early booking is advisable!

March 17th 2019: Poetry Afternoon and Open Mic, Terrace Cafe, Brantwood

POETRY AFTERNOON and OPEN MIC

Poetry Afternoon and Open Mic Terrace Cafe Brantwood Coniston Cumbria

Come and join host Geraldine Green, and guest poets Pippa Little, Kerry Darbishire and Kathleen Jones for an afternoon of poetry. Running 3-5pm in The Terrace. Tickets £5. To book please call 015394 41396 or email theterrace@brantwood.org.uk

UK poet Geraldine Green creative writing tutor and editor was born, grew up and still lives on the Furness Peninsula, Cumbria. Her work is widely anthologised in the UK and US. Frequent visitor to North America, in 2015 she celebrated 10 years of poetry readings there. In 2011 she gained a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. Her third full collection, Passing Through was published in 2018 by Indigo Dreams. She blogs at: Salt Road

Kerry Darbishire songwriter and poet grew up in the Lake District where she continues to live and write in a remote area of Cumbria. Her poems have appeared widely in anthologies and magazines and have won several competition prizes, including shortlist Bridport 2017. Recently she was a runner-up in the international Mslexia Poetry Competition. Her first full poetry collection, A Lift of Wings published in November 2014 by Indigo Dreams. A biography Kay’s Ark, the story of her mother, published in September 2016 by Handstand Press. www.handstandpress.net. Her second poetry collection, Sweet on my Tongue was published by Indigo Dreams in August, 2018. She co-edited the new Handstand Press Cumbrian Poetry Anthology, This Place I know.

Pippa Little is Scots, living in Northumberland. She’s co-tutored on several poetry courses at Brantwood, is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newcastle University and currently working on her third collection.

Born and brought up on a hill farm near Caldbeck, Kathleen Jones is a poet, novelist and biographer, currently living in an old mill in the Eden valley.  Published work includes 2 novels, 4 collections of poetry, and biographies of  Katherine Mansfield, Norman Nicholson, and the women of the Wordsworth and Coleridge families.  www.kathleenjones.co.uk

EVENT INFORMATION

Date & Time:Sunday 17th March 2019 - 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Advanced booking essential.

March 15th Spotlight Lancaster, poetry, music and stories...

Friday 15th March 7pm

Spotlight

Venue:  The Storey Auditorium, Meeting House Lane, Lancaster, LA1 1TH Tickets:  £5 Full/ £3 Concession available on the door We are delighted to see the return of this staple of the Lancaster Arts Scene in our programme. Founded in 1995, Spotlight seeks to promote and encourage the development and performance of writers in the North West.  On the third Friday of every month Lancaster’s Spotlight Club takes over The Storey Auditorium to provide a platform for poets, writers, comedians and musicians. The evening begins with six 5 minute open mic slots, to apply for one of these please emailspotlightclub@btinternet.com. This will be followed by two fiction writers, two poets and two musical acts including Claire Dean, Geraldine Green and Kerry Darbishire. Join us for an evening showcasing some of the best of the North West arts scene! Claire Dean is a writer and performer whose short stories have been widely published in anthologies and magazines including The Best British Short Stories, Best British Horror and Cabinet des Fées. Her collection of short stories, The Museum of Shadows and Reflections, has been published by Unsettling Wonder with illustrations by Laura Rae. Claire also creates digital stories that respond to readers or their environments. She is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University and lives in Lancashire with her family. Geraldine Green is the former writer-in-residence of both Brantwood, the home of John Ruskin, and Swarthmoor Hall, the home of George Fox and Margaret Fell. Geraldine has performed widely in the UK, North America, Italy and Greece. Her    third full collection, Passing Through, was published in 2018 by Indigo Dreams. She  has also completed a Research Diploma in Ecopoetics, exploring the influence of the land on the poetry of Emily Bronte. Kerry Darbishire is a poet and songwriter. She grew up in the English Lake District where she continues to live on a Cumbrian fell side with her artist husband Stephen. Her poems have appeared in many anthologies and magazines and she has won  several competition prizes including shortlisted Bridport 2017. Her first poetry collection, A Lift of Wings was published in 2014 by Indigo Dreams. Her biography, Kay’s Ark, the story of her mother, was published by Handstand Press in 2016.