Workshop: Poetry with Patrick Lane

Thursday, August 23, 2012 - 4:00pm

Wintergreen Studios
9780 Canoe Lake Road
Township of South Frontenac, ON
K0K 3N0

This four-day writing retreat will provide a nurturing setting for attending writers to create new work. Through a series of daily in-class and extra-class exercises, readings, discussions and commentaries, fresh approaches to the poem will be explored with a view to not only improving our skills, but opening ourselves to new ways to imagine this wondrous thing we call a poem. Punctuated with walks in the woods and delicious meals served from the Wintergreen kitchen, this retreat will provide a fine setting to share meaningful moments through poetry.

About the Instructor

Patrick Lane is one of Canada’s pre-eminent poets, winner of numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, the Canadian Authors Association Award, the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence and three National Magazine Awards. He has published twenty-five collections of poetry since 1966, his most recent, The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane, from Harbour Publishing (2011), and with McClelland & Stewart a novel Red Dog, Red Dog (2008), and his celebrated memoir, There is a Season (2004).

Tuition: $395. HST extra.

Accommodation and meals for the duration of the workshop (three nights and nine meals): $295 (tenting p.p.), $375 (bunks p.p.), $425 (shared rooms or cabins, p.p.), $495 (double bed, single occupancy), $625 (double bed, shared). For those staying off-site, facilities and meals are an additional $250. Out of town participants wishing to arrive Wednesday, August 22 (the night before the workshop begins) should add $95 for the extra night, dinner, and breakfast. HST extra.

Workshop registration closes August 9, 2012.

For more information and to register, please visit the Wintergreen Studios website.