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Summer School 2018

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Face-to-Face Course

Poetry Surgery with Jericho Brown

Tutor: Jericho Brown
£80.00

Review: 'Soho' by Richard Scott

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Archiving Your Self Yourself: an interview with James Davies

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Review: 'The Built Environment' by Emily Hasler

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We're Hiring an Office Administrator - Join the Team!

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Review: 'Who Is Mary Sue?' by Sophie Collins

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Face-to-Face Course

Creative Translation

Tutor: Jen Calleja
£144.00

Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry Open for Entries!

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Review: 'Pamper Me To Hell & Back' by Hera Lindsay Bird

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Online Course

Archiving Your Self Yourself: Quantified Self Studio

Tutor: James Davies
£79.00
Face-to-Face Course

'She Whom the Moon Ruled': Astrophysics, Astrology & Poetry

Tutor: Sunayana Bhargava and Rhondda Rhiannon
£35.00
Face-to-Face Course

Sonic Healing: Poems of Loss

Tutor: Belinda Zhawi
£35.00

Primers: Volume Four Mentoring and Publication Scheme Open for Entries

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Face-to-Face Course

The Ethics of Perspective

Tutor: Will Harris
£35.00
Events

Aldeburgh Festival Bandstand on the Beach: Helen Ivory and Martin Figura

Review: 'An Ocean of Static' by J.R. Carpenter

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Face-to-Face Course

Fresh Words from America: Exploring the Hottest Contemporary American Poetry

Tutor: Peter Kahn
£35.00

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Review: ‘Soho’ by Richard Scott

By turns explicit and playful, elegiac and defiant, Richard Scott’s Soho draws on the fiercer traditions of queer poetry without ultimately depending on those who have gone before. The result is a debut not bound by allegiance to some generalised category but liberated by joy and clear execution. Soho is not necessarily inseparable from London’s…

Posted in Reviews 1 day ago by Patrick Davidson Roberts
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Archiving Your Self Yourself: an interview with James Davies

James Davies is interviewed by James Davies – his uncannily named next-door neighbour – about his upcoming course for Poetry School, Archiving Your Self Yourself: Quantified Self Studio James Davies:  Hi there James. How are things this morning? James Davies:  Really really great James. Right now I’m dandy. I’m usually dandy. I see the birds….

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Review: ‘The Built Environment’ by Emily Hasler

Epigraphs often function as concise statements of intent, subtly staking out the territory and interests of a collection. Emily Hasler’s The Built Environment (Liverpool University Press) begins with a quote from Nan Shepard’s The Living Mountain acknowledging the wonderful tension between what we know and what we cannot know of the natural world, which for Shepard…

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We’re Hiring an Office Administrator – Join the Team!

Office Administrator We’re looking for an administrator with responsibility for the development of systems supporting course programme delivery. This a fixed-term, full-time post providing administrative support to the Poetry School’s core course programme, with additional responsibility for assessing and developing the systems supporting the delivery of the School’s programme, including its web-based databases. In the…

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Review: ‘Who Is Mary Sue?’ by Sophie Collins

I admit, I experienced intense feelings of estrangement and disruptedness during my first reading of Who Is Mary Sue? (Faber).  A kind of physical, alienating panic took hold and I struggled with a sense of being constantly dislodged from my usual reading habits and processes. The allusive, allegorical mode is realised through a very quiet approach…

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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 on Lambeth Walk, the Poetry School is located in a central and convenient area for public transport and is within walking distance of several tube stations including Waterloo.

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