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Tutor: Jonathan Edwards

Someone Else’s Shoes: Poetic Monologue

Expand your voice with the thoughts, lives and feelings of others

Start Date: January 24, 2019
End Date: March 28, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Online

£90.00 *

Tutor: Chrissy Williams

What Is a Poem?

Interrogate the boundaries of the genre in these friendly, fruitful workshops

Start Date: January 24, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: March 21, 2019 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£72.00 *

Tutor: Karen Whiteson

Origins of the Golem

Trace the generative parallels between the Judaic golem and writing poetry

Start Date: January 26, 2019 10.30am
End Date: January 26, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£0.00

Tutor: Ella Frears

WRITE AHEAD: Free Introductory Workshop

Want to be a poet? Go Write Ahead.

Start Date: February 15, 2019 7pm
End Date: February 15, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

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Does a poem have to rhyme in order to be a poem? Does it have to have line breaks? Does it have to be about metaphysics or can it be about tin openers – can it be about both? Is a poem still a poem when it is ‘deliberately opaque’? What about if it’s been…

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Review: ‘American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin’ by Terrance Hayes

Tradition and fashion aside, what Terrance Hayes does with 14 lines, over and over, is what seems necessary: the focusing and finessing of a complex voice – by turns melancholy, crass, urbane, incensed – into a mode that keeps his train-of-thought moving while calling at every stop. Rhythm and momentum in poetry are not the…

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Humphrey Astley

The Double-image of Poetry and Photography

Creative mediums are not indefinable. They have essential elements that mean they are not something else at root. But their practise is not best served by recourse to the ‘it is whatever you want it to be’ line of thinking. I mean, that’s fine, of course – people can think what they like – but…

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Someone Else’s Shoes: Poetic Monologue

Poetry is escape. The bloke at the desk there, not moving at all, not even seeing us as we step into his room now, but staring into space, tapping perhaps his pen against his teeth, or leaning now to squint closely at a sheet of paper, alive with these squiggly, wriggly marks which contain all…

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Danne Jobin Interviews Pascale Petit

Danne Jobin interviews Pascale Petit, winner of the 2018 RSL Ondaatje Prize and co-founder of the Poetry School, about rainforests, mothers and fathers, and trauma. Pascale Petit reads alongside co-founders Mimi Khalvati and Jane Duran at the celebratory event ‘21 Years of the Poetry School‘ at Poetry in Aldeburgh on Sunday 4th November. Danne Jobin: You…

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The Poetry School

Poetry School is the UK's largest provider of poetry education, providing inspiring tuition and ways to share work with other supportive poets.

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The Wood for the Trees: Significant Poets of the British Isles (Reading Course)

The Double-image of Poetry and Photography

Poetry as a Witness (Birmingham)

Review: 'American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin' by Terrance Hayes

Someone Else's Shoes: Poetic Monologue

Danne Jobin Interviews Pascale Petit

To be Unhomed: Reading and Writing (as) Wretched Strangers (Transreading)

Danne Jobin Interviews Richard Scott

Review: 'The Singing Glacier' by Helen Mort

Affordability: Concessions, discounts, payment plans, bursaries and free resources.

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Upcoming Highlights

A selection of Courses & Workshops we're running soon

Someone Else’s Shoes: Poetic Monologue

What Is a Poem?

Origins of the Golem

WRITE AHEAD: Free Introductory Workshop

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Recent Blog Updates

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What Is a Poem?

Review: ‘American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin’ by Terrance Hayes

The Double-image of Poetry and Photography

Someone Else’s Shoes: Poetic Monologue

Danne Jobin Interviews Pascale Petit

Hire our London Venue MORE INFO & BOOKINGS