Poetry master class
with award-winning poet shane book

SOUND SENSE: WRITING BY EAR

Saturday, November 30th, 2024
10:00am to 1:00pm

REGISTRATION is OPEN now!

PLEASE REGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITE HERE

What
We are delighted that award-winning poet Shane Book will teach a Poetry Master Class this Fall on behalf of Planet Earth Poetry. * (Shane will also be reading as a featured poet at Planet Earth Poetry on the evening before the Master Class is being offered - Friday, November 29).

Description
“In this class you will learn to hear English as sound, first – well ahead of meaning. To defamiliarize the language, we will employ deep listening, mishearing and deliberate misunderstanding. You will acquire new composition techniques and make surprising, wholly original poems. You will learn to write poetry from the sound, up.”

Who?
Shane Book is a poet, filmmaker and professor in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria. His most recent collection, Congotronic, won the Archibald Lampman Award and K.M. Hunter Award, and was a finalist for the Canadian Authors Association Award, Ottawa Book Award, and Griffin Poetry Prize. His films have screened at over fifty film festivals around the world and on television. In 2024, he was a visiting professor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His new poetry collection, All Black Everything, will be published next year..

Where?
A comfortable private home in the Gorge area.
Address and directions will be sent to registrants.
(Home-made snacks will be offered, as well as tea and coffee. Please bring your own mug.)

When?
Saturday, November 30th, from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm.

Registration: $75.
A limited number of sliding scale tickets (ranging from $35-$55) are available for those in need. Tickets are first come first serve—we are not reserving the sliding scale seats, so if you want one, please buy it promptly.

PLEASE REGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITE HERE

If tickets are sold out, please contact Nancy Issenman and she’ll add you to the waitlist.

PEP offers two fully-funded bursaries for participants who identify as Indigenous and who register by November 22.

Max 12 participants.