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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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A selection of Courses & Workshops we're running soon

Saturday Sessions with Ros Barber (Spring 2021)

£177.00 *

Tutor: Ros Barber

Saturday Sessions with Ros Barber (Spring 2021)

Monthly all-day Saturday workshops with Ros Barber.

Start Date: January 16, 2021 10.30am
End Date: March 13, 2021 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

Poetry & Syntax: An Emergency Toothpick in an Imaginary Landscape

£75.00 *

Tutor: Astrid Alben

Poetry & Syntax: An Emergency Toothpick in an Imaginary Landscape

Learn to outwit, cajole, and break free from syntax to transcend poetic writing and produce true works of art.

Start Date: March 13, 2021 10:30am
End Date: March 27, 2021 ( 15 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

A House of Many Rooms: The Sonnet Sequence

£150.00 *

Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra

A House of Many Rooms: The Sonnet Sequence

Find your ‘big idea’ and get to work on a propulsive new sonnet sequence with an expert in the field!

Start Date: March 14, 2021 10:30am
End Date: March 28, 2021 ( 15 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£75.00 *

Tutor: Sarah Westcott and Joe Beale

Looking at Lichens

Join us for an inspiring day of reading, writing, and discussion, alongside some practical exploration of lichens!

Start Date: March 20, 2021 10:30am
End Date: March 20, 2021 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

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Poetry Beyond Semantics: Broken and Unbroken Code

What came first, the words or the poem? Put a new spin on your practice with the course Poetry Beyond Semantics: Broken and Unbroken Code – five weeks taking you from the very origins of language to the boldest poets of the present. Along the way, we will make a pit stop by some of…

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Aesthetica Creative Writing Award – apply for free entry!

One of our long-term students, Tamsin Hopkins, has won the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award with a poem ‘if you’re being followed’, written on a Poetry School course. Huge congratulations for this incredible success! Tamsin has generously offered to use part of her prize to provide 10 free entries to Poetry School students, for the Aesthetica…

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“There are still secrets to exhume”: Contemporary Gothic Poetry

In 2020, we are truly enamoured by the gothic. Many contemporary gothic-influenced mainstream titles, notably in the Young Adult category, have been transformed into successful films or TV shows with huge fan bases in recent years. There have also been many recent novel-to-screen adaptations of gothic classics – such as Frankenstein (1818), Strange Case of…

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Nisha Bhakoo

Surviving the Future: Harnessing your Apocalypse Anxiety

Welcome to the Poetry Apocalypse! I first ran this course some time ago, in 2015, and as a starting point to re-working this course for 2021, I revisited the blog piece I wrote then. It started with the question ‘can you remember your first apocalypse?’, and talked about the Millennium Bug – how the fear…

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Suzannah Evans

Teleporting into Poetry and the Law of Beautiful and Unintended Consequences

A rush of adrenaline and hope, combined with a feeling of fear and – OK – dread, have become very familiar to me as a part of my Zoom teaching life. What a strange idea: that one minute you’re sitting in your study alone, and the next you’re teleported into a virtual room with a…

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Jacqueline Saphra

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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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The Poetry School

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.

Poetry Beyond Semantics: Broken and Unbroken Code

Aesthetica Creative Writing Award - apply for free entry!

“There are still secrets to exhume”: Contemporary Gothic Poetry

Surviving the Future: Harnessing your Apocalypse Anxiety

Poetry Books of the Year 2020

Review: Pamphlets Round-Up of Dunn, Evans, and Lewis

Review: ‘My Darling from the Lions’ by Rachel Long

Review: ‘How To Wash A Heart’ by Bhanu Kapil

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Upcoming Highlights

A selection of Courses & Workshops we're running soon

Saturday Sessions with Ros Barber (Spring 2021)

Poetry & Syntax: An Emergency Toothpick in an Imaginary Landscape

A House of Many Rooms: The Sonnet Sequence

Looking at Lichens

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Recent Blog Updates

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Poetry Beyond Semantics: Broken and Unbroken Code

Aesthetica Creative Writing Award – apply for free entry!

“There are still secrets to exhume”: Contemporary Gothic Poetry

Surviving the Future: Harnessing your Apocalypse Anxiety

Teleporting into Poetry and the Law of Beautiful and Unintended Consequences

Hire our London Venue MORE INFO & BOOKINGS