StAnza Workshop: Lavinia Greenlaw

To mark and celebrate our two themes for 2012, The Image and Poetry by Degrees, StAnza is delighted to offer its first all-day poetry workshop in partnership with the Barns-Graham Charitable Trust. The workshop will take place in the beautiful setting of Balmungo House, home of the late Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, one of the leading Scottish painters of the 20th century. Balmungo House is a restored Georgian mansion house just outside St Andrews set in its own attractive grounds and now the home of the Barns-Graham Charitable Trust which was set up to manage and promote the works of the artist and to support contemporary artists, including through artists and writers residencies. This workshop will be tutored by StAnza's Poet in Residence for 2012, Lavinia Greenlaw, who is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, and whose interests include vision and perception. Lavinia Greenlaw studied 17th-Century Art at the Courtauld Institute and has worked on poetry collaborations with the Tate, the Hayward, the Fitzwilliam Museum and the National Gallery. The workshop will explore the relationship between poetry and painting in terms of how we create and read images under the inspiration of Wilhelmina Barn-Graham's own studio and works on view. Tea and coffee will be available and participants are asked to bring along a snack lunch. If transport is required from The Byre Theatre to Balmungo House, please contact info@stanzapoetry.org after you have purchased your ticket for the workshop. And please do send in copies of any poems which result from the workshop as the Barns-Graham Charitable Trust may wish to exhibit them. Presented in partnership with the Barns-Graham Charitable Trust. Part of StAnza: Scotland's International Poetry Festival.

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