Climbing the Poetic Munros

Climbing the Poetic Munros Led by Hugh Parry

Hugh Parry is an experienced teacher of English Literature in adult education specialising in Shakespeare. His wide-ranging interests including detective fiction, utopias, ghost stories, Greek drama, and the pursuit of unfashionable poets.

In poetry, the current preference is for brevity and lyricism, while verse marching from page to page is regarded as forbidding. But in the past, readers admired poets for tackling big subjects and were prepared to climb the Poetic Munros. This course encourages you to try too. The rule is that a separate long poem is to be the subject of a single session and no more, and that each poem will be filleted in such a way as to entertain and intrigue, without creating overload.