Courses and Seminars
Upcoming courses and seminars we are offering.
The MLS Refectory, series III
The MLS Refectory series continues . . . Wednesdays 1-2 in Ross House, 247 Flinders Lane. Schedule at link below. You bring $10, I bring the poems. The MLS Refectory 2017 Series Three
First Courses for 2017
We’ll be off and running with 1. The MLS Refectory starting its weekly run of hourlong lunchtime poetry sessions on Wednesday 18 January, 1-2 pm in Ross House room 2.1. Room booking details for the whole of 2017 available here: … Continue reading
Going Large in 2017: The Classics
Yup. All the biggies. Over the course of 2017 I plan to offer a series of twelve-week seminars, each of which will take up Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses. In addition I will try to squeak another twelve-week seminar on … Continue reading
Anyone for Beowulf . . . Again?
I’ve had a number of requests to reprise the six-session course I taught last year on Beowulf, which used Seamus Heaney’s translation (published by Faber & Faber in 1999) as its text. I’m about to book a room for it, … Continue reading
New MLS Courses for August
I’ll be taking a small holiday in July, but the MLS will be back in force with courses for the latter half of 2016 beginning from August. Here are the offering so far booked in: The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer’s … Continue reading
The MLS Refectory Sesssions Continue
I’ve just got confirmation of room bookings for the next run of MLS Refectory sessions that will take us to mid-year. Same deal: Wednesdays 1-2, you bring $10, I bring some samples of a poet’s work, and we read and … Continue reading
Two New Courses Starting
Next week will see the start of two six-week courses: The Visionary Imagination Think of all the ways we extend our sense of sight along many different dimensions of experience and consciousness. ‘Oh, I see!’ we might laugh on getting … Continue reading
First 2016 Courses Booked
I’m really pleased to announce it’s all happening! I’ve submitted room-booking requests for the courses listed in the schedule available via the link below. I’ve made a few adjustments to the timings. My recommendations for texts you’ll want to acquire … Continue reading
Here We Go Again
I’m back, and healthier than ever, thanks to the extraordinary staff at St Vincent’s Hospital. I’m about to book rooms for the courses I had to cancel in August, to run from late January or early February. Attached is the … Continue reading
A Small Complication
Health issues have arisen for me (not too serious, but not negligible) that have unsettled the scheduling of the remaining courses for this year. Until I know more, I would ask that no one transfer any fees to my account … Continue reading