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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.

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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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Review: ‘Reckless Paper Birds’ by John McCullough

To understand the weight of being bodied, All the swollen and tender exchanges That ground me here among the living (‘A Floating Head’) There is a powerful sense of tension between body and soul in John McCullough’s absorbing third collection, Reckless Paper Birds. The human body and brain can be a prison; they are both…

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MariaTaylor

A Far-Off Land: Finding More Folklore

In the west, epic myths, remnants of religions past, are revered, re-translated and researched, but folktales and fairy tales are often written off as children’s stories. Scrappy, grisly, lowbrow and deceptively simple, many of them do indeed serve as warnings to children: don’t wander alone in the woods, boast or steal. But these stories, passed…

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Kirsten Irving

Review: ‘Handling Stolen Goods’ by Degna Stone

Interrogating the prejudice of race and class, Degna Stone’s spellbinding third pamphlet, Handling Stolen Goods (Peepal Tree Press), reveals a disturbing bond between the body and the world around it, and strives to break this down through bold, determined struggle. Whilst human interactions stand at the heart of Stone’s poems (‘We spend our time having…

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Jade Cuttle

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

Richard Osmond’s Rock, Paper, Scissors is a collection wherein violence and trauma has disrupted the social fabric to the extent that reality becomes a game of signs. Like the trickster of myths and fables, this collection undermines authority and convention. The three principle signs of this collection are excerpts from Beowulf, Qur’ānic extracts and Osmond’s…

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Zakia Carpenter-Hall

Review: ‘Girlhood’ by Julia Copus

There is a theory in earth sciences known as the Gaia Hypothesis that propounds that the earth and everything upon it (though, crucially, perhaps not including ‘us’) acts as a synergetic, self-regulating organism. The idea being that the earth acts as its own immune system, but also as its own ‘reset’, so to speak. Dangers…

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Patrick Davidson Roberts

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Xriss Xross: Free One Day Festival

A Far-Off Land: Finding More Folklore﻿

Review: 'Reckless Paper Birds' by John McCullough

Twisted Love

Review: 'Handling Stolen Goods' by Degna Stone

The Hurricane Does Not Roar in Pentameter: A Ginkgo Prize Workshop

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'

Review: 'Girlhood' by Julia Copus

The Grief of Ecological Collapse: A Ginkgo Prize Workshop

General Impression of Size and Shape: Poetry & Birds

﻿Narrow Road, Deep North

Concessions & Bursaries - new rates from Autumn 2019

Queereading

Psycho Gastro Studio﻿

Adrian Street, The Early Years

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Go & Open the Door (Birmingham)

WRITE AHEAD: Free Introductory Workshop (Friday 27 September 2019)

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