Poetry Workshop with Kona MacPhee
Calling all aspiring poets! We are delighted to offer a new Poetry Workshop service this year with the help of award-winning poet and Poetry School tutor Kona Macphee.
Every second month BooksfromScotland.com will select one unpublished poem, which Kona will read and critique. The poem, along with Kona’s constructive feedback and suggestions for development, will be published on the site.
Please send us your poems by Friday 15th May for the second workshop - email them to the editor.
Souvenir by Rebecca Pitman
- Our first featured poem is Souvenir, written by Rebecca Pitman. Kona admired at the formal rhyming structure of the poem, and suggested how this could be tightened. She also thought the poem needed a stronger ending.
About Kona Macphee
Kona Macphee was born in London but grew up in Melbourne, Australia, where she flirted with a range of occupations including composer, violinist, waitress and motorcycle mechanic. Eventually she took up robotics and computer science, which brought her to Cambridge as a graduate student in 1995, and then began writing poetry, which encouraged her to follow her heart and move to Scotland in 2006. She now lives in Crieff, Perthshire.
Kona received an Eric Gregory Award for her poetry in 1998. Her first collection, Tails, came out from Bloodaxe Books in 2004, and she is now selling the remaining copies to raise money for UNICEF – see http://www.konamacphee.com/ for more information. Kona is a tutor for The Poetry School, and has previously supplied Poetry Prescriptions for the Poetry Society. Her next collection is forthcoming from Bloodaxe in early 2010.
Terms and Conditions
- Entries should be either written by individuals based in Scotland OR on a theme of substantial Scottish interest (eg place, history, culture)
- Poems should be no more than forty lines in length and only one poem per entrant per month may be submitted. Poems must be received by the 15th of every second month (May,July,September,October) to be eligible for consideration in the following month’s workshop.
- By submitting a poem entrants consent that BooksfromScotland.com has the right to publish it in whole on the website with comments prepared by Kona Macphee.
- The contact details you supply when submitting a poem will only be used to contact you if necessary about the Poetry Workshop.
- The Editor will select one poem every second month for publication on the site – editor’s decision is final.
- Entry is conditional on acceptance of these terms and conditions. By submitting a poem, you are deemed to have read and accepted the terms.
