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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A selection of Courses & Workshops we're running soon

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

£75.00 *

Tutor: Sarala Estruch

Memory, History, Loss, & Gains

Explore ways of writing about ancestry and inheritance in poetry

Start Date: October 5, 2019 10.30am
End Date: October 5, 2019 ( 1 Day )
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

£79.00 *

Tutor: Christina Thatcher

Lighting the Flame: Writing Fire Studio

Charge your poems with fire's many themes

Start Date: October 7, 2019
End Date: November 4, 2019 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

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A Song for Occupations: In Praise of Work

What shall we do with work? Curse it, hate it, make escape plans from it, call in sick to it, write apologetic e-mails to it, still we find, every morning, we have to do it. And more than that, work does things to us: decides what time we’ll rise, how well we sleep, the folk…

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Jonathan Edwards

General Impression of Size and Shape: Poetry & Birds

I grew up with birds. And what I really mean there is, I grew up with a birdwatcher father who liked to tell us what every bird was, and how you might distinguish it from any other bird. From an early age I was watching birds on the bird feeder in the garden, delighting in…

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Suzannah Evans

Review: ‘Significant Other’ by Isabel Galleymore

Isabel Galleymore’s debut collection, Significant Other (Carcanet) is a vividly detailed poetic chronicle of some of the world’s most fascinating species. The first poet-in-residence at Tambopata Research Centre in the Amazon Rainforest, Galleymore forages with wide-eyed fascination in search of new poetic ground. Underpinned by the desire to discover new ways of describing the natural…

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Jade Cuttle

Adrian Street, The Early Years

I was fighting for my life even before I was born, nearly strangled at birth by my umbilical cord. By four I was re-enacting Little Bighorn, hunting Custer through the hills of Gwent, while Dad was hunted through Singapore by the Japanese. I gathered pieces of downed German bombers to build my own plane and…

Posted in Poems 2 weeks ago by

Benjamin Palmer

Psycho Gastro Studio

When I told a friend of mine I was going to be tutoring a course titled Psycho Gastro Studio, they asked me what that actually meant. In response I started telling the following story from my life: Many years ago I was on a bus from Leeds, where I had been visiting family, down to…

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Sean Wai Keung

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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.

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General Impression of Size and Shape: Poetry & Birds

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Review: 'Significant Other' by Isabel Galleymore

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Psycho Gastro Studio﻿

Adrian Street, The Early Years

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Imagining the Sacred Hybrid: Poetry of Change and Resistance

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Announcing the MA in Writing Poetry Scholarship

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