Writing Poetry

In this writing course you will explore new ways into your writing, and think about perspective as much as imagination, feeling and accomplishment.

You will do this via writing exercises, as well as poems brought to class for discussion. There will be a writing and workshop element to all classes, so this course will be ideal for poets who are seeking inspiration for new avenues in their writing, as well as those who are looking for feedback and direction.

This course is intended for poets who are growingly confident in their writing, and want to hone their craft as they send poems out and gather their manuscripts.

About the tutor: 

Mícheál McCann is a poet and editor from Derry.

His poems have appeared in The Poetry Review, Banshee, The Stinging Fly and anthologised in Queering the Green and Romance Options: Love Poetry for Today. He has published three pamphlets of poems, and his first full collection, Devotion, is published by The Gallery Press.

He is the editor of Poetry Ireland Review 143, the founding editor of catflap, and was a co-editor of Hold Open the Door: A Commemorative Anthology from the Ireland Chair of Poetry published by UCD Press.

He holds a PhD from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queens where he is the 2024 Publishing Fellow.