Articles #John Eppel

On the anniversary of his 50th year as an English teacher, John Eppel talks to Drew Shaw about his life in the classroom.

Ruth Eppel interviews her father John on the subject of the Sonnet (its history, its structure, some examples) and on Keats's poetry on the bicentenary of his death.

Four Bulawayo authors discuss character creation with the literature critic, Drew Shaw.

A Poetry Workshop, 'Learn How to Write a Villanelle', was led by veteran poet John Eppel, assisted by Philani Amadeus Nyoni, coordinated by Dr Drew Shaw of the Centre for English Excellence. Starting with the example of Dylan Thomas's 'Do not go gentle into that good night, participants learned the discipline of the villanelle and were able to write their own villanelles by the end of the session.