Mimi is the founder of the Poetry School and was the Coordinator from 1997-2004.
The Poetry School offers a comprehensive programme of events led by practitioners who are not only recognised for their artistic achievements but for their ability to inspire and instruct. Courses and workshops are held at spectacular venues across the UK including in Aldeburgh, Bath, Dorchester, Exeter, Falmouth, London, Manchester and Newcastle. The School is committed to new writing and to the nurturing of exciting talent and welcomes everyone regardless of formal qualifications or experience.
Since its inception, Mimi has been a core tutor for The Poetry School. Courses she has previously led include her acclaimed Versification and Advanced Versification annual courses, The Long Poem Workshop, Stealing the Language, Finding the Form, Giving Good Readings and Saturday Workshops. In 2008, she offers:
Versification with Mimi Khalvati
This course is suitable for those who have been practicing poetry for some time, have gained confidence in their writing and now wish to address some of the more formal challenges in both metrical and free verse. We will explore the relationship of form and content; metre, rhyme and syntax; stanzaic and fixed forms; lineation and stylistic choices in free verse.
venue: The Poetry Studio, the Poetry Society, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BU
day/time: Tuesdays weekly 6.30 – 8.30pm
dates: Autumn term 9 Oct – 18 Dec 07 (not 20 Nov),
Spring term 8 Jan – 11 Mar 08,
Summer term 15 Apr – 17 Jun 08
fee: £95, £76 conc. (per term)
bookings: programme@poetryschool.com www.poetryschool.com
Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mimi Khalvati
Rather in the spirit of a seminar, these workshops will focus not only on work in progress but also on new lines of development in each poet’s work. There will be no writing exercises but sessions will be enlivened by provided texts as stimuli for writing and discussion. Applicants are invited to submit 4 poems, with SAE, to the tutor at 130C Evering Road, London N16 7BD, by 14 September 2007.
venue: Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Ave, London NW5 2RX
day/time: Thursdays weekly 5.00 – 7.00pm and 7.30 – 9.30pm
dates: Autumn term 11 Oct – 13 Dec 07,
Spring term 10 Jan – 13 Mar 08,
Summer term 17 Apr – 19 Jun 08
fee: £95, £76 conc. (per term)
bookings: programme@poetryschool.com www.poetryschool.com
Scansion with Mimi Khalvati
This workshop will address the technical issues of scansion, how scansion affects our reading of poetry and how, in our own work, we can employ it to best advantage. Please bring a poem to work on.
venue: Seminar Room, Fairfield Mill, Garsdale Road, Sedbergh, Cumbria LA10 5LW
day/time: Saturdays, 12.00 – 3.00pm
date: 1 Mar 08
fee: £20 (for each workshop, including tea & coffee)
Bookings through Sedbergh Book Town Tourist Office, 72 Main Street, Sedbergh LA10 5AD
tel: 015396 20125, email: booktown@sedbergh.org.uk web: www.sedbergh.org.uk
The Tourist Office can also arrange overnight stays and pick-ups from the trains station etc.
'I have been a student of The Poetry School for about six years. Throughout my life I have been taught by many good teachers, have been a colleague to many good teachers and have aspired to be a good teacher myself. Mimi is a truly great teacher. She is warm, humorous, generous, exacting. She has appreciated my work and spurred me on to make it better. She has widened my knowledge and understanding of poetry and what it is to be a poet. She continues to inspire and surprise me.’ – Kate Ling
