Start Date:  Tuesday 30th April 2024

End Date:   Tuesday 25th June 2024

Level:           Beginners/Intermediate.

Format:       Asynchronous, writing in your own time - no fixed time video elements.

No. of Assignments and Feedback: 3 

Group Size:  Up to 5  (No spaces left)

Course Description: This course, looking at the five-line Japanese poetry form tanka is suitable for those looking to begin or to build their tanka experience. The course includes an optional exercise process to help with your tanka structure and content, but more confident writers can work directly with the prompts for new work. If you already write longform poetry, then tanka is a good introduction to the Japanese forms, as there is room for a little more lyricism here than there is in haiku. The course feedback is sent by email, with participants reading Alan's commentary on each others' poems as well as their own in a group learning process. 

Introductory materials, including a first writing prompt, are accessed on the start date. Participants submit two poems three times over each course (total 6 poems per course) and can also add a couple of rewritten poems for final comments during that time. 

Full Cost: £185 (approximately US$233)

Early Bird Rate: £165 (approximately US$208) if booking by the end of 15th April 2024)

What our students are saying about this course...

Thanks Alan, for your in depth comments which educate us every time!  It is a pleasure to be one of your students. Until next time, many thanks.

Leslie (2023)

I very much enjoyed this course and have felt moved and inspired by everyone's poems. It has given me courage to try my hand writing more 'everyday tanka' for myself and I must say - I love the form.

Ella (2022)

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