Courses and Workshops at Brantwood

Creativity and the Spirit: creative writing with poetry

with Dr Geraldine Green

Ulverston poet Dr Green has three poetry collections, The Skin 2003 and Passio, 2006, both published by Flarestack Pubs. Ed. Charles Johnson. Poems of a Mole Catcher’s Daughter, under pseudonym Katie A Coyle, was published in 2009 by Palores Publications, Ed. Les Merton. Her work has been widely anthologised and appears in poetry magazines in the UK, USA and Italy, including Orbis, Tears in the Fence, Envoi, Smoke, Seventh Quarry, Poetry Cornwall, Citizen 32, Rain Dog, Obsessed with Pipework, Hortus Conclusus, Primal Sanities – A Tribute to Walt Whitman (Allbook Books), On a Bat’s Wing (Five Leaves Press), Simply Connect (Cinnamon Press).

She’s read widely in the UK and North America from Scotland to Cornwall and New Hampshire to New Mexico and also Italy and Greece, including: The Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, Woody Guthrie Festival Okemah, Oklahoma, Walt Whitman Birthplace Long Island, Laurel Bookstore, Oakland California, the International Women’s Arts Festival, Kendal, The CatStrand Dumfries & Galloway, Bowery Poetry Club New York City, Poetry on the Lake, Orta Italy, Skiathos Rooftop Celebration and the Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere. Workshop exercises are included in: Writing Works, A Resource Handbook for Therapeutic Writing Workshops & Activities Jessica Kingsley Pubs. 2006. In February 2009 she was invited by the South West Texas Popular Culture Committee to give a talk at their Conference in Albuquerque on ‘Ecopoetics: An Exploration of the Work by Aldo Leopold and John Clare.’

Geraldine is a Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Cumbria, has wide experience as a freelance tutor and mentor and has worked collaboratively with musicians, artists and photographers and on a variety of community projects including: the National Trust, Equality Cumbria, Cumbria Multicultural Women’s Network, Rusland Writers, Mungrisdale Writers, Cumbria NHS Mental Health Trust, Intergenerational Projects in the Eden Valley and Penrith MIND. She is an Associate Editor of online magazine Poetry Bay www.poetrybay.com Further information can be found on a-gender.org/poets/geraldine-green

The Other Side of the Bridge has been accepted for publication by Indigo Dreams, Ed. Ronnie Goodyear and will be published during 2012. Geraldine is now working on her fifth collection, Salt Road.

Residential option available

The Lodge at Brantwood has been newly refurbished to provide accommodation for those attending our courses. It sleeps up to 9 people in 2 double rooms, 2 twin rooms and a single room, located on the ground and upper floors, with a shared kitchen/diner and living room, 2 bathrooms and a shower room. The Lodge enjoys wonderful views across Coniston Water to the fells. A self service breakfast is provided in the Lodge as part of the rate.

£50 per person per night, single occupancy

£35 per person per night, shared occupancy

Pre-booking is essential. Tel: 015394 41396 Email: enquiries@brantwood.org.uk