This session, we turned our attentions to villanelles and sestinas, two forms pioneered by French poets. These forms are both quite difficult to master, and are restrictive in their form, repetition, and rhyme scheme. I hope the session offered some fun activities to help you get your teeth into these forms! As always, a summary of the activities and links to resources can be found here, or on the 'Sessions' tab above.
The session ended with a small discussion into the future of Pen to Paper: a chance to air opinions and suggestions of how the sessions could be altered to better suit your needs. I'm really open to your thoughts here - I want you to be getting all you can from these sessions, and to continue to enjoy them.
If you didn't attend the session, please do get into contact with me via email (or commenting below) with answers to any of the following:
- are you interested in future Pen to Paper events?
- do you still think the spaces at BMAG, and the spaces available, are suitable for our needs?
- which of the following arrangements are still something that works for you? if not, what might you suggest as an alteration?
- five hour sessions
- Saturday afternoons
- monthly
- group size
- where would you like to see the sessions going in the future? (different venues, external trips, guest lecturers, publications, ect.)?
- please rank the following topics from those you are most interested in (1) to those you are least interested in (5)
a) movements/schools (eg: Beat, Imagism)
b) forms (eg: sonnets, sestinas)
c) poets (eg: female poets, LGBT poets, BAME poets, disabled poets)
d) features (eg: punctuation, layout, metaphor)
e) advice for poets (eg: competition entry, magazine submission, manuscript submission)
- of the above (especially those you ranked 1 and 2), what specifics would you like covered?
It would be great to get this feedback so I can plan future sessions with these things in mind!
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