Led by poet and writer, Matthew Sweeney

Saturday 12 March 2005, 10.30–16.30
Sunday 13 March 2005, 10.30–16.30

This writing workshop is inspired by Tate Britain's Turner Whistler Monet exhibition. Faced with a polluted industrial landscape, the artists JMW Turner, James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Claude Monet sought to discover beauty in the modern city; they focused increasingly on the transient effects of light and weather, and upon the atmospheric conditions on the Thames, the Seine and Venice.

This workshop combines practical work with discussion, and uses themes related to the river, pollution and the modern city as a springboard for creative writing. Matthew Sweeney has run numerous workshops at literary festivals and universities in Britain, Ireland and elsewhere. He won the Arts Council Writers' Award in 1999 and his most recent book of Selected Poems was published in 2002. His most recent books are Sanctuary (Cape, 2004) and Writing Poetry (Hodder, 2003).

Tate Britain  Duffield Room
£60 (£40 concessions), booking required
Price includes refreshments

  

This event is related to the Turner Whistler Monet exhibition