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Summer 2025 – Quick Course Guide

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Poetry for Change & Personal Growth: Writing in Crisis & Finding Your Voice

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How to: Get your Poetry Published

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How to Write Poetry: Poetry as Translation and Transformation 

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Freedom in Form: Challenge Your Poetry Boundaries

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Unsticking a Stuck Poet: Overcoming Writer's Block 

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Food, Family & Poetry: Writing Memory Through the Senses 

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Vanessa Kisuule on the Southbank Centre's New Poets Collective

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Poetry as Response: Transreading & Translating

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Break the Rules: Experimental & Playful Poetry

For young creatives, literary rebels, and experimental poets, these workshops challenge you to push the boundaries of poetry, embrace unconventional techniques, and play with form in exciting new ways. Ideal for experienced poets and alternative thinkers who are ready to break the rules and redefine poetry itself. Poems After Poems: Writing Ars Poetica – Leah…

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CLIMATE POETRY: Simon Armitage, ‘The Summit’

A collaboration between the University of Leeds Poetry Centre and the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures.

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Poetry for Change & Personal Growth: Writing in Crisis & Finding Your Voice

Poetry has the power to heal, resist, and transform. Whether you’re writing to navigate personal challenges, address global crises, or find an expressive outlet, our workshops provide the space, support, and expert guidance to help you craft the best poetic response. Lighting the World: Writing in Times of Crisis – Shazea Quraishi Explore how poetry…

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How to: Get your Poetry Published

In this series, we interview our tutors about poetry and its place in their world. These interviews will cover creative writing tips, excelling in a poetry workshop, building a literary career, and finding your poetic voice. Here’s James Byrne on getting your poetry published. 1. How did you go about getting your first poem/pamphlet/collection published?…

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How to Write Poetry: Poetry as Translation and Transformation 

In this series, we interview our tutors about poetry and its place in their world. These interviews will cover creative writing tips, excelling in a poetry workshop, building a literary career, and finding your poetic voice. Here’s Carmen Bugan discussing the idea of poetry as translation and transformation.  1. Let’s start with Desert Island Poems….

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