About the course: In this course, poet, editor and literary/Jungian scholar Dr. Roula-Maria Dib will guide you through poetry writing as a form of conversation with another medium of art, specifically the visual. This dialogue with images not only offers moments of transcendence and beauty, but it opens inner channels of understanding ourselves and the world, creating new modes of knowledge. Part theory, part application and workshopping, this course will lead you through a journey in which you will explore how the way and angle from which we contemplate and engage with images affects our writing about them.
The following themes will be covered:
Session 1: Ekphrasis (May 8, 2023 at 18:00-20:00 UK)
Session 2: Pareidolia (May 10, 2023 at 18:00-20:00 UK)
Session 3: Active imagination (May 15, 2023 at 18:00-20:00 UK)
Session 4: Dream images (May 17, 2023 at 18:00-20:00 UK)
Session 5: Tarot cards (May 25, 2023 at 18:00-20:00 UK)
We will also be looking at imagistic, ekphrastic, and dream poems that examine and articulate the special connections the psyche makes with images.
“Working with Images” will walk you through this poetic inquiry via a series of writing exercises to help you generate your own poems that speak with different types of images such as paintings, photos, dream images, masks, and even amorphous ink blotches, coffee stains, and clouds!
What you will get:
- A certificate of completion from the LABRC
- An opportunity to publish your work in literary magazines (including Indelible) and to participate at one of Indelible’s online or in-person poetry reading events
- A wealth of knowledge and new skills from sources, discussions, and practice, which you may develop into a conference paper, integrate into your research (eg: thesis), or publish as an article/book chapter.
- Become part of a new writing community by meeting fellow poets from different levels of poetry writing skills. In other words, like-minded friends who may collaborate with you in future research/writing projects.
- Hone your poetry writing skill by receiving support and inspiration for exploring and developing your craft.
- Voucher for one free access to a paid Indelible event
Who is it for?
This course is for anyone who:
- Would like to learn more about the relationship between poetry, psyche, and image
- Has an interest in the dialogue between the mediums of poetry and visual art
- Who is curious to see what and how we can learn from the practice of writing poetry by working with images
- Who would like to attempt, practice, or refine their existing image-inspired poetry writing skills
- Who likes to be part of an awesome writing community and meet other like-minded poets
Cost: 100 GBP (entire course)
OR:
30 GBP (for one session)
Format: Online
Roula-Maria Dib (PhD, Leeds) is an award-winning literary scholar, author, poet, and editor whose research interests include literature, creative writing, and Jungian psychology. She is a holder of the UK Global Talent Visa, the winner of the British Council’s Alumni Awards 2021-2022 for the Culture and Creativity category in the UAE and a recipient of the AUD Provost’s Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement 2020; her book, Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature (Routledge, 2020) was shortlisted as a finalist for the IAJS (International Association for Jungian Studies) book awards, and some poems from her collection, Simply Being (Chiron Press, 2021) have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Roula-Maria is also the Director of LABRC, founding editor of literary and arts journal, Indelible, and creative producer of literary event series, Indelible Evenings, as well as Psychreative, a virtual salon for researchers, artists, and writers with a background in Jungian psychology. Her MOOC, “Why Online Creative Communities Matter”, is featured on Academia.edu. She is a member of The Poetry Society, the Royal Society of Literature, the British Association for Modernist Studies, the International Association for Jungian Studies, and the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies.