Craft in community; the commitment you and your poetry are looking for to progress.
£260.00 *
£260.00 *
Craft in community; the commitment you and your poetry are looking for to progress.
£300.00 *
Intimate monthly seminars with Sascha Akhtar on Zoom, diving into her specialist area of decolonial, embodied performance Praxis.
£45.00 *
Turn everyday details into striking poems in this beginner-friendly workshop exploring voice, perspective, and creative ways into writing.
£55.00 *
Horrible Poetries.
Welcome to our Forward Prizes 2026 ‘How I Did It’ series. This year we asked poets shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize for Best Collection to write about the inspiration behind one of the poems from their book. Here’s Keith Jarrett on what inspired him to write the poem ‘islands [a cobra in the cockpit]’ in…
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Interested in the poetry of typographical innovation? Lydia Kennaway, who is teaching her London course Fontasia: Poetry & Rebellious Typography this October tells us about four poets who innovated the appearance of poetic text. George Herbert Herbert is often presented as a forerunner of Concrete or Visual Poetry, with ‘Easter Wings’ his most well-known example,…
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The Poetry School and UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage are delighted to announce the winner of The Laurel Prize 2026 is Fiona Benson for her collection Midden Witch (Jonathan Cape). Fiona has been awarded £5,000 and a four-night writing retreat in mid-Wales courtesy of 2026 prize partners Write Within. WHAT THE JUDGES SAY “Fiona Benson’s…
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Welcome to our Forward Prizes 2026 ‘How I Did It’ series. This year we asked poets shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize for Best Collection to write about the inspiration behind one of the poems from their book. Here’s Sarah Howe on what inspired her to write the poem ‘A History of my Relationship with my…
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Writing about death in poetry can be extremely challenging, so Sascha Akhtar, who is teaching her course Somebody’s Walking Over My Grave this October, has put together some tips for finding the right words to use in your writing. 1. Feel Emotion is frowned upon in Western culture, both in our workspaces, often within family…
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