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How I Did It – Forward First Collection: Abigail Parry on 'The nine lives you might have lived, were it not for the nine thin spells through your heart'

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Abigail Parry

How I Did It: Forward First Collection – Kaveh Akbar on 'HERITAGE' from Calling a Wolf a Wolf

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Kaveh Akbar

Poetry in Aldeburgh Announce 2018 Line-Up

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How I Did It: Forward First Collection – Shivanee Ramlochan on 'All the Dead, All the Living' from Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting

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Shivanee Ramlochan

Ancient Tongues and Hybrid Texts

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Rowan Evans

'It feels like a time of poetry again' - the Revolutionary Moment(s) of 1968

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Gloria Dawson

Review: 'As Slow As Possible' by Kit Fan

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Richie McCaffery

Against English: an interview with Harry Giles

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Will Barrett (Poetry School)

Face-to-Face Course

Language of the Social

Tutor:

Caleb Femi

£72.00

How I Did It: Forward First Collection – Phoebe Power on 'Rina' from Shrines of Upper Austria

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Phoebe Power

Face-to-Face Course

Poetry & Cinema

Parasol Unit Workshop: 'Peeling' with Rachel Long

Tutor:

Rachel Long

Face-to-Face Course

Mondo: The Global Avant-Garde

Tutor:

Steven J Fowler

£144.00

'My ghost you needn’t look for' - Searching for Robinson Jeffers

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André Naffis-Sahely

Face-to-Face Course

First Encounters (Autumn 2018)

Tutor:

Meryl Pugh

£171.00

Affordability: Concessions, discounts, payment plans, bursaries and free resources.

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Upcoming Highlights

A selection of Courses & Workshops we're running soon

Against English: Dialects, Distortions and New Vocabularies

£109.00 *

Tutor: Harry Giles

Against English: Dialects, Distortions and New Vocabularies

Write against English, take it apart, and explode language altogether

Start Date: October 4, 2018
End Date: December 13, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Living in a Different World: Poetry, Of, Through and After 1968 (International)

£109.00 *

Tutor: Gloria Dawson

Living in a Different World: Poetry, Of, Through and After 1968 (International)

Radical readings and revolutionary spirit from 1968 – the year that shook the world

Start Date: October 5, 2018
End Date: December 14, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Autumn 2018)

£171.00 *

Tutor: Richard Price

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Autumn 2018)

Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced workshop with Richard Price

Start Date: October 5, 2018 11am
End Date: December 7, 2018 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£72.00 *

Tutor: Caleb Femi

Language of the Social

Join Caleb Femi to explore the social side of language and break through its barriers to catch a true glimpse of reality.

Start Date: October 13, 2018 10.30am
End Date: October 13, 2018 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

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Primers Volume Four Shortlist and Longlist Announced!

The Poetry School and Nine Arches Press are thrilled to announce the shortlist and longlist for Primers Volume Four, our mentoring and publication scheme. After reading thousands of poems, judges Kim Moore and Jane Commane have selected ten manuscripts for the shortlist and 17 manuscripts for the longlist. We’ll be publishing poems by all of…

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Review: ‘Passivity, Electricity, Acclivity’ by Ella Frears

Ella Frears’ Passivity, Electricity, Acclivity is one fragmented but connected lyric essay. Where the lyric essays that are most frequently referenced (Maggie Nelson’s Bluets, and Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely and Citizen) tend to work in small blocks of prose (or prose-poetry), Frears explodes the lyric essay form, producing the familiar blocks of prose,…

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How I Did It – Forward First Collection: Abigail Parry on ‘The nine lives you might have lived, were it not for the nine thin spells through your heart’

Welcome to the fourth instalment of our Forward Prizes First Collection ‘How I Did It’ series. Once again, we’ve asked the poets shortlisted for this year’s Felix Dennis Prize to explain the process behind one of their award-shortlisted poems. Here, Abigail Parry discusses the history of a key poem from her collection Jinx. The Forward Prizes ceremony will…

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How I Did It: Forward First Collection – Kaveh Akbar on ‘HERITAGE’ from Calling a Wolf a Wolf

Welcome to the third instalment of our Forward Prizes First Collection ‘How I Did It’ series. We asked the poets shortlisted for this year’s Felix Dennis Prize to explain the process behind one of their award-shortlisted poems. Here, Kaveh Akbar talks about the devastating real-life event behind the poem ‘HERITAGE’. The Forward Prizes ceremony will take…

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#28for28: Sharing Space

Poetry School is sharing space. We are sharing our blog and broadcasting writers’ stories of those who experience indefinite immigration detention in the UK and those who work with them. We are also sharing our physical space: three of the tales – by Patience Agbabi, Neel Mukherjee, and Bernardine Evaristo – were filmed here at…

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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.

Primers Volume Four Shortlist and Longlist Announced!

WRITE AHEAD: Free Introductory Workshop

Poetry Playback: Vahni Capildeo reads ‘Venus as a Bear’

#28for28: Sharing Space

How I Did It – Forward First Collection: Abigail Parry on 'The nine lives you might have lived, were it not for the nine thin spells through your heart'

How I Did It: Forward First Collection – Kaveh Akbar on 'HERITAGE' from Calling a Wolf a Wolf

Poetry in Aldeburgh Announce 2018 Line-Up

How I Did It: Forward First Collection – Shivanee Ramlochan on 'All the Dead, All the Living' from Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting

Ancient Tongues and Hybrid Texts

'It feels like a time of poetry again' - the Revolutionary Moment(s) of 1968

Review: 'As Slow As Possible' by Kit Fan

Against English: an interview with Harry Giles

Language of the Social

How I Did It: Forward First Collection – Phoebe Power on 'Rina' from Shrines of Upper Austria

Poetry & Cinema

Parasol Unit Workshop: 'Peeling' with Rachel Long

Mondo: The Global Avant-Garde

'My ghost you needn’t look for' - Searching for Robinson Jeffers

First Encounters (Autumn 2018)

Affordability: Concessions, discounts, payment plans, bursaries and free resources.

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