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The Grief of Ecological Collapse: A Ginkgo Prize Workshop

Tutor: Dom Bury
£0.00
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Twisted Love

Tutor: Becky Varley-Winter
£95.00

General Impression of Size and Shape: Poetry & Birds

Posted in Courses 5 days ago by Suzannah Evans Suzannah Evans

Narrow Road, Deep North

Posted in Courses 1 week ago by Jake Morris-Campbell Jake Morris-Campbell

Concessions & Bursaries - new rates from Autumn 2019

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Review: 'Significant Other' by Isabel Galleymore

Posted in Reviews 1 week ago by Jade Cuttle Jade Cuttle

Queereading

Posted in Courses 3 weeks ago by Maria Jastrzebska Maria Jastrzebska

Psycho Gastro Studio

Posted in Courses 1 week ago by Sean Wai Keung Sean Wai Keung

Adrian Street, The Early Years

Posted in Poems 1 week ago by Benjamin Palmer Benjamin Palmer

You are here.

Posted in Courses 3 weeks ago by Cat Woodward Cat Woodward

Review: 'Deaf Republic' by Ilya Kaminsky

Posted in Reviews 1 month ago by Stav Poleg Stav Poleg
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Go & Open the Door (Birmingham)

Tutor: Helen Calcutt
£95.00
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Imagining the Sacred Hybrid: Poetry of Change and Resistance

Tutor: Karen McCarthy Woolf
£0.00

Review: 'The Fall at Home: New and Collected Aphorisms' by Don Paterson

Posted in Reviews 2 months ago by Jeremy Wikeley Jeremy Wikeley
Face-to-Face Course

WRITE AHEAD: Free Introductory Workshop (Friday 27 September 2019)

Tutor: Joey Connolly
£0.00

Announcing the MA in Writing Poetry Scholarship

Posted in News 3 months ago by Poetry School Poetry School

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General Impression of Size and Shape: Poetry & Birds

I grew up with birds. And what I really mean there is, I grew up with a birdwatcher father who liked to tell us what every bird was, and how you might distinguish it from any other bird. From an early age I was watching birds on the bird feeder in the garden, delighting in…

Posted in Courses 5 days ago by Suzannah Evans
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Review: ‘Significant Other’ by Isabel Galleymore

Isabel Galleymore’s debut collection, Significant Other (Carcanet) is a vividly detailed poetic chronicle of some of the world’s most fascinating species. The first poet-in-residence at Tambopata Research Centre in the Amazon Rainforest, Galleymore forages with wide-eyed fascination in search of new poetic ground. Underpinned by the desire to discover new ways of describing the natural…

Posted in Reviews 1 week ago by Jade Cuttle
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Adrian Street, The Early Years

I was fighting for my life even before I was born, nearly strangled at birth by my umbilical cord. By four I was re-enacting Little Bighorn, hunting Custer through the hills of Gwent, while Dad was hunted through Singapore by the Japanese. I gathered pieces of downed German bombers to build my own plane and…

Posted in Poems 1 week ago by Benjamin Palmer
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Psycho Gastro Studio

When I told a friend of mine I was going to be tutoring a course titled Psycho Gastro Studio, they asked me what that actually meant. In response I started telling the following story from my life: Many years ago I was on a bus from Leeds, where I had been visiting family, down to…

Posted in Courses 1 week ago by Sean Wai Keung
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Narrow Road, Deep North

The first time I felt Northern was at the Students’ Union bar of the University of Chester. I’d recently moved there from South Shields and was taken aback when the barman couldn’t understand my order. ‘Do you mean Coors?’ ‘Aye, pint of Coors, please.’ There are two syllables in that particular brand of lager: coo-aaz….

Posted in Courses 1 week ago by Jake Morris-Campbell
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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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