steph
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Post by steph on Sept 2, 2014 15:35:51 GMT
This is copied from information sent to the group from a member. Thank you Corey. Please could you pass onto the Group some news about an Open University > Creative writing course that I discovered - it is totally FREE to do and > commences in October. > > It's called 'Start Writing Fiction', lasts for 8 weeks, and you can pay £24 > for a certificate at the end, if you want (or just do the course and pay > nothing). > > The course is being run for the Open University by a company called Future > Learn. Details are here: > > www.futurelearn.com/courses/start-writing-fiction-2> > As part of the course, you are expected to submit work, and also to assist in > feedback and support for others on the course by reading and reviewing their > work. There is an online 'forum' for course users, for the duration of the > course. > > I thought this could be an excellent way to push myself to do a bit more, so > I've signed up to it. I hope others in the group might be interested?
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Post by steph on Sept 2, 2014 15:12:48 GMT
This was a homework exercise set to the group earlier in the year. I will include the original poem here and if members would like to add their contributions below it would be lovely to see them all. Or if you missed this homework and would like to do it now, please do share with us.
Origins by Imelda Maguire
I come from a bog-cotton
hawk-cry, flat, plain place,
from a father who was
a motherless boy.
I come from a factory-chimney,
mouth-of-the-river city,
from a line of strong, proud
women, good with their hands,
from a mother who was
eldest of eight,
working at twelve,
keeping house for families
where children older than she
were cosseted and sent to school.
I come from someplace
between the cold that called
for greatcoats piled on the bed
and the white-hot heat of
a Saturday night range;
somewhere between piety
of nightly rosary and the radical
words of my father, berating the clergy
who persecuted the last few
Limerick Jews.
I come from times that were changing
and carry a residue of times
that never will.
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