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After Arcadia: Cy Twombly with Tamar Yoseloff

Use repurposing, erasure and collage to create new poems

The American artist Cy Twombly was known for his paintings that incorporated scattered phrases and scribbled words, a kind of personal graffiti. His source texts were often borrowed lines from poets, whose work he valued for their use of the ‘condensed phrase’.

This course is a pair with After Arcadia: Ian Hamilton Finlay, on 9 March. Students are welcome to sign up for both!

 

This workshop draws together some of Twombly’s favourite poets – including Catullus, Rilke and Cavafy – and considers how their words and ideas are fused with the act of painting. Participants will borrow some of Twombly’s techniques, such as gesture, repurposing of existing text and erasure / painting over, as methods to generate new poems.

Dates and times
10:30 am to 4:30 pm | Sat 09 Feb 2019
Where
The Poetry School
1 Dock Offices, Surrey Quays Road
Canada Water
SE16 2XU
London
Pricing
£72 | £68 for 60+ | £58 concessions