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Poetry Playback: 'Giant' by Richard Georges

Tutor: Richard Georges

Why do we read, and write, taboos?

Posted in Courses 2 months ago by Christina Thatcher Christina Thatcher
Events

Home is a Name: Journeys, Departures, and Arrivals

Tutor: Richard Georges

'How to go home'

Posted in Poems 5 hours ago by Rosemary Appleton Rosemary Appleton

'Being a true account of the voyage of Vincenzo Lunardi'

Posted in Poems 1 day ago by Beverley Casebow Beverley Casebow

Talking Back: Poetry, Dialogue and Voice

Posted in Courses 1 week ago by Kate Potts Kate Potts

Ledbury Emerging Critics: Jennifer Lee Tsai reviews 'Three Poems' by Hannah Sullivan

Posted in Ledbury Emerging Critics 3 days ago by Jennifer Lee Tsai Jennifer Lee Tsai
Online Course

Tales from the World City (International, Summer 2018)

Tutor: David Tait
£109.00

'Emma’s Attitudes'

Posted in Poems 1 week ago by Anna Amo Anna Amo
Events

Poetry School Summer 2018 Launch Reading

Tutor: Various Tutors
£0.00

Review: 'A Watchful Astronomy' by Paul Deaton

Posted in Reviews 1 week ago by Richie McCaffery Richie McCaffery

Ledbury Emerging Critics: Srishti Krishnamoorthy-Cavell reviews 'Don't Call Us Dead' by Danez Smith

Posted in Ledbury Emerging Critics 2 weeks ago by Srishti Krishnamoorthy-Cavell Srishti Krishnamoorthy-Cavell

Ledbury Emerging Critics: Jade Cuttle Reviews 'Asylum' by Sean Borodale

Posted in Ledbury Emerging Critics 3 weeks ago by Jade Cuttle Jade Cuttle
Face-to-Face Course

The BreakBeat Internationally Known Workshops

Tutor: Kevin Coval, Safia Elhillo and Nick Makoha
£30.00

'Fairy Tales and Stepmonsters'

Posted in Poems 4 days ago by Ilse Pedler Ilse Pedler
Face-to-Face Course

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Sasha Dugdale (Summer 2018)

Tutor: Sasha Dugdale
£171.00
Face-to-Face Course

Ecopoetry, Environmentalism and Activism (Bristol)

Tutor: Samantha Walton
£90.00

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‘How to go home’

Drive back to the house where you were born. Open her old cookbook, press your fingers onto her pen’s scrawl. Take tweezers: tease a hair from your old doll’s clothes. Play a hymn, its melody clear as light

Posted in Poems 5 hours ago by Rosemary Appleton
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‘Being a true account of the voyage of Vincenzo Lunardi’

Fire Late September morning, and a chill in the Edinburgh air, but the gathering crowds are warm with wonder, and the ladies feverish for the hot-blooded adventurer – the man who knows how to fly. Thirty bottles of oil of vitriol into a vat of iron filings, and the limp sack of silk expands and…

Posted in Poems 1 day ago by Beverley Casebow
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Ledbury Emerging Critics: Jennifer Lee Tsai reviews ‘Three Poems’ by Hannah Sullivan

Within the context of contemporary poetry and modern poetic form, how does one begin to describe or characterise ‘free verse’? As an academic, Hannah Sullivan’s critical exploration of this question is evident in her stated research interests. She argues that ‘the prosody of modern poetry is, to a large extent, determined by practices of lexical…

Posted in Ledbury Emerging Critics 3 days ago by Jennifer Lee Tsai
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‘Fairy Tales and Stepmonsters’

I wish I’d held your hand more often. it would have been easy. I wish I’d worried less and made a nest of my fingers for it to curl inside, it used to slip into mine anyway. Do you remember the models we made out of cardboard and paper? Rockets and market stalls and castles…

Posted in Poems 4 days ago by Ilse Pedler
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Talking Back: Poetry, Dialogue and Voice

In her 2017 collection Stranger Baby, Emily Berry stages a dialogue between voices living and dead, a sort of haunted (and haunting) psychodrama, both intimate and fiercely private: “I wish you would put some kind of distortion on my voice,” says the speaker in ‘The End’, “so people don’t know it’s me.” This is poetry…

Posted in Courses 1 week ago by Kate Potts
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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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