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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.

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Tutor: Rebecca Levi

Poetry that Travels

After a year spent in one place, join us for some poetic travel!

Start Date: May 13, 2021 7.00pm
End Date: July 8, 2021 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

Caledonia Dreamin': Exploring Scotland's Poetry

£75.00 *

Tutor: Richard Price

Caledonia Dreamin': Exploring Scotland's Poetry

Take a tour of Scottish poetry with expert guide, Richard Price.

Start Date: June 12, 2021 10.30am
End Date: July 3, 2021 ( 22 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

A House of Many Rooms: The Sonnet Sequence

£150.00 *

Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra

A House of Many Rooms: The Sonnet Sequence

Find your ‘big idea’ and get to work on a propulsive new sonnet sequence with an expert in the field!

Start Date: June 26, 2021 10:30am
End Date: July 10, 2021 ( 15 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£75.00 *

Tutor: Sarah Westcott and Joe Beale

Looking at Lichens

Join us for an inspiring day of reading, writing, and discussion, alongside some practical exploration of lichens!

Start Date: July 17, 2021 10:30am
End Date: July 17, 2021 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

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Review: Beethoven Variations by Ruth Padel

Many collections published over the last few years have fused poetry and biography, invoking historical, mythical, and religious characters. Poetry, in many ways, is the art of conjuring – be it specific images, emotions and speakers, or whole landscapes and decades-long sagas. These subjects, of course, can be either ‘real’ or fictional: often both; sometimes…

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Kate Simpson

Review – poems for my fbi agent by Charlotte Geater

If ever I needed a distraction, it’s now. I have never needed poems more than I have this past year, as the isolating effects of the Covid-19 outbreak continue to sink in. It’s almost difficult to read Geater’s debut pamphlet poems for my fbi agent (Bad Betty Press) at this time, such is the dark…

Posted in Blog 2 weeks ago by

Helen Calcutt

Ars Poetica: Cold Showers & Restless Sheets

Poetry is replete with pithy, aphoristic metaphors about what poems do. William Carlos Williams claimed a poem is ‘a machine made of words’, which Don Paterson modulated into ‘[a] poem is a little machine for remembering itself’ by way of Michael Donaghy’s poem ‘Machines’. I’ve long been interested in the desire to reduce poetry to…

Posted in Blog 4 weeks ago by

Sam Buchan-Watts

Soundscapes

In the beginning, poems were songs. Sonnets were little songs. A villanelle was a dance. Does the meaning of poetry still depend, not just on the sense of words, but on their sounds? In his essay The Music of Poetry (1942), T. S. Eliot writes: We can be deeply stirred by hearing the recitation of…

Posted in Blog 1 month ago by

Becky Varley-Winter

Places to Submit your Poetry in 2021

You’ve just completed a Poetry School course and have written and edited a few new poems, so what now? Submitting your poems to a magazine, journal, or press is the first step to sharing your work with an audience and building up a readership, which is crucial if you’re looking to publish your work in…

Posted in Blog 2 months ago by

Esther Heller

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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 in Docklands, the Poetry School is located in a central and convenient area for public transport and is within walking distance of several tube stations including Canada Water.

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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.

Review: Beethoven Variations by Ruth Padel

Review – poems for my fbi agent by Charlotte Geater

Ars Poetica: Cold Showers & Restless Sheets

Places to Submit your Poetry in 2021

Review: Magnolia, 木蘭 by Nina Mingya Powles

Soundscapes

Lyric Poetry & Poetic Lyrics

Review: Magnetic Field by Simon Armitage

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Caledonia Dreamin': Exploring Scotland's Poetry

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Poetry that Travels

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Looking at Lichens

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Ars Poetica: Cold Showers & Restless Sheets

Soundscapes

Places to Submit your Poetry in 2021

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