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Calling Forth: Direct Address / Apostrophe

£72.00 *

Tutor: Phillis Levin

Calling Forth: Direct Address / Apostrophe

Explore the power of the vocative or direct address in poetry

Start Date: March 23, 2019 10.30am
End Date: March 23, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£35.00 *

Tutor: Sean Wai Keung

Eat Your Words: Poetry and Food

Enhance your poems with roast beef, cheesecake, and a bottle of Chablis

Start Date: April 12, 2019 10.30am
End Date: April 12, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Bodies and Botanies in Contemporary Experimental Poetry

£35.00 *

Tutor: Srishti Krishnamoorthy-Cavell

Bodies and Botanies in Contemporary Experimental Poetry

Write the poem botanical, from queer florality to trees bearing witness

Start Date: April 13, 2019 2pm
End Date: April 13, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Choosing Brave: Feminism & the Written Word (International)

£109.00 *

Tutor: Leah Umansky

Choosing Brave: Feminism & the Written Word (International)

Respect existence or expect resistance

Start Date: May 9, 2019
End Date: July 18, 2019 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

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The Convergence of Languages in Latinx Poetry

One of the elements that makes Latinx poetry so rich is the many cultures that come together in a single poem. The convergence of cultures can take on many forms, and for Latinx poets, who come from a wide range of backgrounds, the results are endlessly varied. In the forthcoming Poem(a)s Studio: Reading Contemporary Latinx…

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Review: ‘Milk Tooth’ by Martha Sprackland

The title of Martha Sprackland’s new pamphlet, Milk Tooth (Rough Trade), might denote a wish or an ache, something missing, a talisman wrought from the body, a souvenir of pain. A reminder that we are all animals of a sort, struggling for one or more kinds of survival. Milk Tooth opens with an epigraph from…

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Non-Executive Board Member Position Open!

Poetry School is a national arts organisation providing inspiring tuition and opportunities for poets and poetry audiences. We were founded in 1997 by poets Mimi Khalvati, Jane Duran and Pascale Petit. Since our earliest days, our courses and activities have encouraged poets and poetry to flourish. With established teaching centres throughout England as well as…

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Review: ‘Shadow Dogs’ by Natalie Whittaker

Natalie Whittaker’s Shadow Dogs (ignition press) introduces a powerful, controlled new voice. The twenty-one poems collected here are often short and restrained but, to steal from the pamphlet’s title, the elegant sentences and striking images cast enormous shadows, conjuring something much bigger than themselves. Because of the care with language and the sense of a lived…

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Review: ‘Spikenard’ by Yvonne Reddick

Red in tooth and claw though the setting for many of her poems are, Yvonne Reddick evades any easy categorisation in Spikenard (Smith | Doorstop). Just as she did in its two predecessors, Deerhart and Translating Mountains, Reddick writes a poetry that bucks, rears and darts, but is also defined by the steady and deep-sinking effect…

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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.

Non-Executive Board Member Position Open!

The Convergence of Languages in Latinx Poetry

Bodies and Botanies in Contemporary Experimental Poetry

Review: ‘Milk Tooth’ by Martha Sprackland

Un-Canon/Ca-NON

Review: 'Shadow Dogs' by Natalie Whittaker

Typography for Poets

Review: 'Counter Reform' by Charlotte Newman

Poetry and Violence

Review: 'Spikenard' by Yvonne Reddick

Eat Your Words: Poetry and Food

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Calling Forth: Direct Address / Apostrophe

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