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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.

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A selection of Courses & Workshops we're running soon

Ars Poetica: Cold Showers & Restless Sheets

£109.00 *

Tutor: Sam Buchan-Watts

Ars Poetica: Cold Showers & Restless Sheets

Test the limits of ‘ars poetica’ to ask whether all poems are really about poetry?

Start Date: May 5, 2021
End Date: July 14, 2021 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Poetry Dinner Party: The Old and the New Studio+

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Tutor: Phoebe Power

Poetry Dinner Party: The Old and the New Studio+

Bring voices from literary history into conversation with present-day poetics to expand your own writing.

Start Date: May 10, 2021
End Date: June 14, 2021 ( 36 Days )
Type: Online

£95.00 *

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

Libations: Exploring the Inner Spring Studio

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Tutor: Belinda Zhawi

Libations: Exploring the Inner Spring Studio

Reconnect with, and celebrate, the world around you through poetry.

Start Date: May 26, 2021
End Date: June 23, 2021 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

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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 3 days 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 week 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 3 weeks ago by

Esther Heller

Lyric Poetry & Poetic Lyrics

To Dig What We All Say I have a small, gold book which I bought on eBay a few years ago. It’s called Richard Goldstein’s The Poetry of Rock and it was published in 1969. It declares itself to be ‘the most comprehensive collection of great Rock lyrics ever assembled.’ A review on the inside…

Posted in Blog 3 weeks ago by

Lily Blacksell

Poetry that Travels

One of my favorite things to remember are trains. Somewhere in India, top bunk, spying on my fellow passengers from above: the Chaiwala with his tiers of silver tea pots, an Assamese gamer who’d gotten on three days before me, an older couple tucking their shoes between their suitcases. Like a quick inhale, I feel…

Posted in Blog 4 weeks ago by

Rebecca Levi

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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.

Ars Poetica: Cold Showers & Restless Sheets

Places to Submit your Poetry in 2021