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A selection of Courses & Workshops we're running soon

Nothing Beyond Routine Greatness: Speechwriting and Poetry

£90.00 *

Tutor: Alex MacDonald

Nothing Beyond Routine Greatness: Speechwriting and Poetry

Borrow the tools and tricks of oration to deliver persuasive poems

Start Date: January 15, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: March 12, 2019 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Voicing Rootlessness: Writing Beyond Exile

£109.00 *

Tutor: André Naffis-Sahely

Voicing Rootlessness: Writing Beyond Exile

Write poems of connection in an age of mass uprooting and movement

Start Date: January 21, 2019
End Date: March 25, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Online

£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

Parasol Unit Workshop: 'Ugly Words' with Dean Atta

Tutor: Dean Atta

Parasol Unit Workshop: 'Ugly Words' with Dean Atta

A special Saturday morning poetry workshop and gallery tour to celebrate Parasol Unit's Hyon Gyon exhibition

Start Date: February 9, 2019 10.30am
Type: Events

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In the latest interview in our Pub Chats series, we sat down for an imaginary 8am pint with Stuart Bartholomew of Birmingham’s Verve Poetry Press, sister press of the successful Verve Poetry Festival. Hello there! What are you drinking? I am scarily varied on drinks (a bit like I am with poetry). White Wine, Guinness,…

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Review: ‘Insistence’ by Ailbhe Darcy

The most incisive critical response I’ve encountered to Ailbhe Darcy’s recent work was when I posted a link to the first poem from Insistence on Twitter and Dominic Leonard replied saying ‘wow holy fuck’. That seems about right. It’s not that that poem, ‘Ansel Adams’ Aspens’ (which refers to Ansel Adams’ photos of, yes, aspens,…

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Joey Connolly

Review: ‘Working Class Voodoo’ by Bobby Parker

While Working Class Voodoo knowingly writes into and through traditions passed down from Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell and other ‘confessional’ writers, Bobby Parker is, emphatically, a poet of his own, disrupting what we expect from the lyric ‘I’. Working Class Voodoo provides the uncomfortable yet absolutely indispensable vantage of being a moth in the carpet…

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Poetry in Aldeburgh Weekend Round-Up

‘Magical’ is not a word I often use to describe an experience, but my first visit to Poetry in Aldeburgh was certainly that. The town’s location on a gorgeous shingly beach, the soft, early November light we were blessed with for most of the weekend, the cosy pubs we’d head to in the evening for…

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Kostya Tsolákis

Review: ‘Waitress in Fall’ by Kristín Ómarsdóttir, trans. Vala Thorodds

Waitress in Fall is a career-spanning collection of Kristín Ómarsdóttir’s work, comprising 30 years’ worth of poems, selected and translated by Vala Thorodds and published by Carcanet & Partus. These poems by Kristín†, taken from her seven collections and presented chronologically, follow the likes of Selima Hill and Eileen Myles in conveying the quieted desires,…

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