Poetry School • Inspiring Poetry Tuition

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

We make poetry happen.

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Tutor: Various Tutors

Xriss Xross: Free One Day Festival

A new, free one-day festival of poetry, art, performance, and workshops

Start Date: September 14, 2019 11am
Type: Events • Location: Raw Labs, London

Poetry as a Therapeutic Aid (International)

£109.00 *

Tutor: Scherezade Siobhan

Poetry as a Therapeutic Aid (International)

Uplift mental wellbeing through the undefined, open space of poetic inquiry

Start Date: October 1, 2019
End Date: December 10, 2019 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

£95.00 *

Tutor: Becky Varley-Winter

Twisted Love

What makes a great love poem?

Start Date: October 3, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: November 28, 2019 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£80.00

Tutor: Richard Price

Poetry Surgery with Richard Price

In-depth 1-2-1 discussion on your poetry with Richard Price

Start Date: October 5, 2019
End Date: October 5, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

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Articles, Poems, Tips & Advice from our Staff and Campus Community.

When writing is hard and the poems are turning stony-faced and slow, I tell myself there are so many things harder and slower to hold onto than a poem: first, a breath, and second, a stone. I take one good, deep breath and let it go. Then I take one good, deep lump of time…

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Holly Corfield Carr

Review: ‘Flèche’ by Mary Jean Chan

How do you learn to love when you’re versed in the ways of war? Equal parts sinister Aesop’s Fable, lived experience, and fairy tale with a twist, Flèche invites readers into a labyrinth of longing. There’s an ongoing war across generations, between mother and daughter, in Mary Jean Chan’s debut collection, Flèche. But the battles…

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Zakia Carpenter-Hall

The Personable Political

So you’re in a writing workshop, one of those all day affairs where you do some exercises in the morning and have a communal critique in the afternoon. You’ve written 3 bad poems, 1 seed of something, and poem that flew from your pen or fingertips so naturally that you have no idea where it…

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David Tait

How Poetry Burns

I had just turned 18 when I moved out of my childhood home and into an apartment with my boyfriend. Although I hoped my young relationship would last, there was something in me that said my treasured objects would be safer at home. Built by my grandfather for my grandmother after World War II, it…

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Christina Thatcher

Memory, History, Loss, & Gains

If, like me, you believe that uncovering untold histories – whether personal, familial, or national – is important, and a vital part of the poet’s work, then join me for a day of reading and discussing poets who do just that. A few months ago, I was in a workshop with Bernardine Evaristo and the…

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Sarala Estruch

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If you are looking for a venue to facilitate your own teaching, workshops, meetings or other gatherings, the Poetry School has three flexible spaces for hire at very affordable rates. Rooms are available most weekdays and some weekends.

Situated in Docklands, the Poetry School is located in a central and convenient area for public transport and is within walking distance of several tube stations including Canada Water.

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

We make poetry happen.

Written With a Wet Rock

Xriss Xross: Free One Day Festival

Memory, History, Loss, & Gains

The Personable Political﻿

A Far-Off Land: Finding More Folklore﻿

Review: 'Reckless Paper Birds' by John McCullough

Twisted Love

Review: 'Handling Stolen Goods' by Degna Stone

How Poetry Burns

A Song for Occupations: In Praise of Work

Review: ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’ by Richard Osmond

A/Way Day to Merstham: A Ginkgo Prize 'Hike n' Write'

General Impression of Size and Shape: Poetry & Birds

﻿Narrow Road, Deep North

Psycho Gastro Studio﻿

Adrian Street, The Early Years

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The Personable Political

A Far-Off Land: Finding More Folklore

Narrow Road, Deep North

Psycho Gastro Studio