John Hewitt International Summer School: Poetry with Nessa O'Mahony

In this online workshop, poet, facilitator and tutor Nessa O'Mahony will teach students the skills needed to write a well-crafted poem.

She will discuss techniques such as using memory, drawing on imagery and how to deploy rhyme and poetic structure.

The workshop is aimed at beginners and will make use of in-class exercises as well as reading examples from contemporary poets.

The Tutor

Nessa O’Mahony is a Dublin-born poet. She has published five books of poetry – Bar Talk, appeared (1999), Trapping a Ghost (2005), In Sight of Home (2009), Her Father’s Daughter (2014), and The Hollow Woman on the Island, published by Salmon in May 2019.

Nessa won the National Women’s Poetry Competition in 1997 and was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Prize and Hennessy Literature Awards.

She was awarded an Arts Council of Ireland literature bursary in 2004, 2011 and 2018.

She lives in Rathfarnham, Dublin, with her husband, the videographer, Peter Salisbury.

Duration: 2 hours each | £60 for three-day workshop course