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#28for28: Sharing Space

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

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Poetry in Aldeburgh Announce 2018 Line-Up

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

Tutor: Surya Vahni Priya Capildeo

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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Ancient Tongues and Hybrid Texts

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

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Review: 'As Slow As Possible' by Kit Fan

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Against English: an interview with Harry Giles

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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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Poetry & Cinema

Tutor: Adam Feinstein
£90.00
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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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First Encounters (Autumn 2018)

Tutor: Meryl Pugh
£171.00

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

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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…

Posted in How I Did It 6 days ago by Abigail Parry
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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…

Posted in How I Did It 1 week ago by Kaveh Akbar
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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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How I Did It: Eric Gregory Award – Zohar Atkins on ‘System Baby’

Welcome to the third instalment of our Eric Gregory Award 2018 ‘How I Did It’ series. We asked the winners of this year’s awards to explain the process behind one of their award-winning poems. In this piece, Zohar Atkins writes about ‘System Baby’, Heideggerian ontology, and writing poems in resistance to ‘unsayability’. The Eric Gregory…

Posted in How I Did It 1 week ago by Zohar Atkins
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Review: ‘As Slow As Possible’ by Kit Fan

Kit Fan’s multifarious second collection takes its title from an art installation / piece of music for a church organ by John Cage which began its performance in September 2001 and is scheduled to end, believe it or not, in 2640. It takes on average over a year for a note in Cage’s composition to…

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