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Irish Writers Centre: Creating Portraits in Poetry and Prose with Shelley Tracey
Tue 14 Jan 2025 to Tue 18 Feb 2025
This six-week online course focuses on portraits and self-portraits in poetry, fiction, life writing and art. Writing activities will include poetry, fiction, character studies, ekphrasis and memoir pieces.
The course draws from a range of literature as inspiration, as well as examples of portrait paintings, photographs and ekphrastic responses to these. In general, ‘ekphrasis’ refers to verbal responses to visual art.
We will explore the limitations and possibilities of ekphrasis, and how encountering and reflecting on art works can develop ideas, characters and insights into creativity.
Shelley Tracey’s collection Elements of Distance (Lapwing, 2017) includes a series ‘Self-Portraits of Pablo Picasso’. Shelley’s poems have also been published in journals including The North, Honest Ulsterman, Abridged, Skylight 47 and The Haibun Journal. Shelley has facilitated a wide range of face-to-face and online creative writing classes, many of which incorporate responses to art. ‘The Art of Pictures’ was developed during COVID to explore how images can stimulate creativity and offer different approaches to writing.
Dates: Tuesdays at 6.30pm - 8.30pm, 14 January - 18 February 2025
Location: Online
Cost: €190 (€171 member)
Further info and to book here
Additional Information:
Location:
Online
Region(s):
International
Price:
€190 (€171 member)
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