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Surreal Art, Magical Poetry

Led by award-winning poet Pascale Petit
Marcel Duchamp, Fresh Widow, 1920, replica 1964
Marcel Duchamp
Fresh Widow 1920, replica 1964
Tate © Succession Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2008
Mondays 11 February 2008 – 17 March 2008, 18.30–20.00

Starting in Poetry and Dream, then working in the Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia exhibition, this six-week course invites you to write magical poetry from surreal art. Creative writing exercises will be offered to respond to these innovative artists and free the imagination. We will explore some of their techniques, such as collage, the use of chance, readymades, and unexpected juxtapositions of images, to inspire new poems that disturb, surprise and transform.

This course is open to both beginners and experienced writers.

Pascale Petit has published four prize-winning poetry collections and was twice shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. A Next Generation Poet, she has been Poetry Editor of Poetry London and tutors at Oxford University and Middlesex University where she is the Royal Literary Fund Fellow.

Tate Modern  Throughout the gallery
£95 (£80 concessions), booking recommended
Price includes entry to exhibition and drinks afterwards
For tickets book online
or call 020 7887 8888.
Book tickets online

Access for wheelchairs and pushchairs  

This event is related to the Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia exhibition