Open Poetics - Consultancy Service

Open Poetics - Consultancy Service

I am now open to give one on one sessions to poets, aspiring or otherwise, providing useful practical advice on all aspects of poetic practice, both written and oral.

I charge a flat fee of Fifty Euro per hour. Sessions will be conducted via Skpe, Zoom, Classroom etc.   

If you are interested in participating in a session of Open Poetics, you can leave a message with me here in the box below and I will get back to you.

I have an extensive background in education, having taught English to Students of Other Languages for over 15 years and at all levels. I have also taught creative writing and given writing workshops to groups and I am also an accomplished performer, having read my work in public on many an occasion.  

I can tailor my classes to your exact needs, this is how I work with people, so that you can get the best possible results. 

Biography

Peter O’Neill is the author of six previously published collections of poetry, a volume of translation The Enemy – Transversions from Charles Baudelaire Lapwing, 2015, and a short prose work More Micks than Dicks, a hybrid Beckettian novella in 3 genres Famous Seamus 2017. He has edited two anthologies And Agamemnon Dead mgv2>publishing 2015, and The Gladstone Readings Famous Seamus 2017, and most recently he has just edited a bumper edition of the online poetry journal Live Encounters – see April edition and the Facebook page April is the Cruelest Month which is a spin off from this engagement and which he currently curates.

He has a BA in Humanities ( 2007) , majoring in philosophy, and a Masters in comparative literature (2013). He has presented papers on Beckett’s final attempt at the novel Comment c’est How It Is at international conferences at the invitation of Beckett champions Gare Saint Lazare Players. He also continues his engagement with transversing Les Fleurs du Mal by Baudelaire. Both of these projects inform his own work and show by extension a life-long commitment to exploring and engaging with highly challenging and complex work and in multiple mediums. This kind of academic versatility is most unusual in writers, and informs his own writing making him, for many writers and editors at least, one of the most engaging poets writing in English today.    

What they are saying:

“ Peter O’Neill is a poet who works the mythical city of Modernism in ways we do not often see enough.”

David Rigsbee

“ He is a poet of idea and image,”

Christine Murray

“ His talent is profound and exuberant, and with the mastery of his art, poetry has become second nature to O’Neill.”

Dr Brigitte Le Juez