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A selection of Courses & Workshops we're running soon

The Carer: Poetry of Private & Public Spaces

£72.00 *

Tutor: Denise Saul

The Carer: Poetry of Private & Public Spaces

How can we reliably provide voices to care-givers and the cared-for?

Start Date: June 29, 2019 10.30am
End Date: June 29, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Parasol Unit Workshop: 'Poetic Demolition' with Martha Sprackland

Tutor: Martha Sprackland

Parasol Unit Workshop: 'Poetic Demolition' with Martha Sprackland

A special Saturday morning poetry workshop and gallery tour to celebrate Parasol Unit's THE SPARK IS YOU exhibition

Start Date: June 29, 2019 10.30am
Type: Events

£72.00 *

Tutor: Isabel Galleymore

The Strange Stranger: Animal Poetics

Cultivate creaturely thinking and fathom the human-animal experience

Start Date: July 6, 2019 10.30am
End Date: July 6, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Poetry Playback: 'Vertigo & Ghost' by Fiona Benson

Tutor: Fiona Benson

Poetry Playback: 'Vertigo & Ghost' by Fiona Benson

A feature-length reading of 'Vertigo & Ghost' by Fiona Benson

Start Date: July 11, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: July 11, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Events

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Review: ‘Deaf Republic’ by Ilya Kaminsky

Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic — framed as a two-act play — takes the reader into a country whose characters move constantly from one stage to another: from the public stage of an occupied town in a time of political unrest, via a local puppet theatre, to that of one’s own home. The first poem of…

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Stav Poleg

Inter-review: Maria Apichella speaks to Keiran Goddard about ‘Votive’

The poems in Keiran Goddard’s new collection Votive (Offord Road Books) ‘look painful things in the face and tell the truth about how much they hurt’. This anguished and beautiful book charts the rise and fall of a turbulent romantic relationship, ultimately exploring how to let go of someone you love. While eschewing an obvious narrative, there…

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Maria Apichella

Summer School 2019

Our 2019 Summer School is here! This boiling summer we’ve teamed up with hot experimental indie Boiler House Press to present a scorching line-up of half-day workshops. Put a towel down and reserve your place. Monday 15 July Hydro Lyric: Water & the Self in Contemporary Poetry with Samantha Walton What does it mean to…

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Review: ‘The Fall at Home: New and Collected Aphorisms’ by Don Paterson

Aphorisms are not poems. But the way in which they may or may not resemble poems might tell us something about poetry. The hope is they will tell us other things too. As a poet and critic many of Don Paterson’s aphorisms in The Fall at Home tell us about poems and poets. For instance:…

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Jeremy Wikeley

Review: ‘Wain: LGBT Reimaginings of Scottish Folklore’ by Rachel Plummer

Scottish literature of the 20th century particularly is well-known for its humanism and pluralism. You just need to think of the likes of folklorist and poet Hamish Henderson, himself a bisexual man, arguing that poetry and song could help heal divided communities and societies. His most famous song ‘The Freedom Come All Ye’ is an…

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Richie McCaffery

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Parasol Unit Workshop: 'Poetic Demolition' with Martha Sprackland

Review: 'Deaf Republic' by Ilya Kaminsky

Problematic Poets: Interrogating our Influences

Summer School 2019

Poetry Playback: 'Vertigo & Ghost' by Fiona Benson

Constraints & Play

Imagining the Sacred Hybrid: Poetry of Change and Resistance

Review: 'The Fall at Home: New and Collected Aphorisms' by Don Paterson

The Carer: Poetry of Private & Public Spaces

Draw Down The Stars

Review: 'Wain: LGBT Reimaginings of Scottish Folklore' by Rachel Plummer

Meeting with Microbes: A Ginkgo Prize Workshop for National Writing Day

'Trace'

Unpacking the Six Pack: Writing Masculinity, Sport & Body Image

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

Announcing the MA in Writing Poetry Scholarship