On-line courses, interactive workshops, webinars and presential courses:

 

  • The poet's toolbox
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    An introductory level workshop, suitable for poets and non-poets alike.

    Find out about the tools used by modern poets in this innovative course that combines video and animation techniques to create a friendly and professional learning environment.
     
  • An introduction to translating poetry
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    A participative introductory level workshop for both poets and translators.
    Participants will use both Spanish and English to explore the problems and inspirations inherent in the task of translating the layered language of poetry.
    Next presential workshop scheduled for the Old Olive Press October 31st - November 7th 2009.

     
  • Effective email
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    Email is one of the mainstays of twenty-first century communications. Whether you're using it in a professional capacity or not, it's important to know how to make your mails both efficient and effective.
     
  • Blogs for writers
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    Do you suspect that you ought to have a blog but you aren't sure why, let alone how to go about setting one up? This course will show how blogging offers a cheap and flexible way to create a web presence and enhance your professional image as a writer.
     
  • Simply Spanish: tips and trucos
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    The "tips & trucos" course offers strategies for improving communication and understanding, as well as warning of common pitfalls and suggesting ways to increase vocabulary and exploit simple grammar to greater effect.

     
  • Poetry: the art of patterning
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    A participative workshop exploring how poets use patterns created by repetition and variation - whether of sound, rhythm, structure or ideas - in their writing.
    Next presential course scheduled for Swanwick Writer's Summer School, August 2009.

 

 

 

 


 

Our innovative on-line course combines video and animation techniques to present the tools used by modern poets in a friendly and professional style.Register and try the Poet's Toolbox free.