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Poetry in Aldeburgh 2017 Line-Up Announced

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How I Did It: Forward First Collection Special - Ocean Vuong on 'Seventh Circle of Earth'

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Ocean Vuong

How I Did It: Forward First Collection Special - Nick Makoha on 'Kingdom of Gravity'

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Nick Makoha

Review: 'Proprietary' by Randall Mann

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Humphrey Astley

Face-to-Face Course

Flamboyance

Tutor:

Katrina Naomi

£72.00

Artwork by John Sheehy from our 'Drawing Poetry' Residency at Centre for Recent Drawing

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AliLewis

'Gaia - Entangled'

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Kevin Conroy

Face-to-Face Course

The Power Of Place

Tutor:

Edmund Prestwich

£90.00

"I’ve been told not to say 'puppy' or 'rainbow' and not to shout 'fire'": Eric Berlin's Stand-Up Poetry Studio

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Will Barrett (Poetry School)

'In which Piers the Plowman appears to the Dreamer'

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Judith Rawnsley

Review: 'Seasonal Disturbances' by Karen McCarthy Woolf

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Bridget Minamore

'Henry Harclay’s Ordinary Questions'

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Tim Dooley

Upcoming Highlights

A selection of Courses & Workshops we're running soon

To Sea in a Sieve: Writing Poems for Children (Autumn 2017)

£104.00 *

Tutor: Rachel Piercey

To Sea in a Sieve: Writing Poems for Children (Autumn 2017)

Set sail on an adventure to craft poems for young audiences.

Start Date: September 18, 2017
End Date: November 27, 2017 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

A Conversation with the Past: From Sappho to Basho

£171.00 *

Tutor: Tim Dooley

A Conversation with the Past: From Sappho to Basho

Construct your own independent poetic voice while maintaining a dialogue with poetic traditions.

Start Date: September 19, 2017 6:45pm
End Date: November 28, 2017 ( 71 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

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Tutor: Emma Hammond

Hyper-Spectacle Studio

Keep your work vital and disruptive in a shifting world by writing poetry where it has no business being

Start Date: October 2, 2017
End Date: October 23, 2017 ( 22 Days )
Type: Online

£90.00 *

Tutor: Chris McCabe and Sophie Herxheimer

Blake in Lambeth

Illuminate your writing with this Blakean explosion of word, image and London walking.

Start Date: October 5, 2017 6:45pm
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

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Articles, Poems, Tips & Advice from our Staff and Campus Community.

‘The Book of Tides’ by Angela Readman

The Book of Tides is a triumph of femininity, transformation and transience. Daring and unsettling, Readman’s poems subvert the status quo, blurring the boundaries between myth and reality with a visceral feel that draws you in from the very beginning. These are poems that beg to be read out loud, crammed with short, sharp words…

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Rachel Carney

How I Did It: Forward First Collection Special – Ocean Vuong on ‘Seventh Circle of Earth’

The Poetry School asked the five poets shortlisted for this year’s Forward Prize for Best First Collection to write about the process behind their award-nominated work. Over the weeks leading up to the award ceremony on 21st September, we’ve published ‘How I Did It’ articles by Maria Apichella, Nick Makoha, Eric Langley, and Richard Georges. In this final instalment, on the day of…

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Ocean Vuong

‘Three Things Transported Together’

He loves me, he loves me not. The me part of this 8.5 million dollar flower industry. Me all gerber- a-faced and eau de toilette – crushed – Betha plucking Ecuadorian Rose or dainty-nosed Sierra dipping into Bucket Orchid – it’s all for me. Flowers, corpses and sushi in the belly of a plane. Big…

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Nicole Burdick

How I Did It: Forward First Collection Special: Richard Georges on ‘Griot’

We’ve asked the five poets shortlisted for this year’s Forward Prize for Best First Collection to write about the process behind their award-nominated work. Over the weeks leading up to the award ceremony on 21st September, look out for ‘How I Did It’ articles from Maria Apichella, Nick Makoha, Eric Langley, Richard Georges and Ocean Vuong. This week, Richard Georges discusses…

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Richard Georges

‘Fourth Person Singular’ by Nuar Alsadir

To fragment a text is to make it more object-like – gnomic, you could say, in the sense of knowing something that’s beyond both writer and reader, and so capable of being read back (more richly and ambiguously) into the world. For Nuar Alsadir, whose Fourth Person Singular is composed of fragments, sketches, and micro-essays,…

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Will Harris

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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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