Poetry at the Next Level: An Advanced Workshop with Wayne Holloway-Smith
Challenge yourself, elevate your writing, and take the next steps in your poetry career
.* This course will take place on the video-conferencing platform ZOOM *
This Advanced course will focus on editing and developing your poems-in-progress and taking inspiration from a range of contemporary poetry to expand your practice. Under the expert guidance of prize-winning poet and Poetry Review Editor, Wayne Holloway-Smith, you’ll push your work to new territories, engage in lively discussions of current poetry, and develop your reading, writing, and critical practices.
As part of the course, you’ll also be welcomed into a supportive community of critical peers, who will help elevate your work, encourage experimentation, challenge your thinking, and introduce you to fellow writers at contemporary poetry’s cutting edge.
Throughout each term, Wayne will guide you through some of the most exciting poetry being written today, lead feedback discussions of your own work, and offer individually-tailored advice on the next steps in your poetry career.
This course is currently in a Priority Booking period, meaning it is only available to students continuing from the previous term. We will open any remaining spaces to new students on Monday 18 November. If you would like to be added to the waiting list for this, please email [email protected].
10 weekly Zoom sessions on Mondays, 6.45–8.45pm (BST/GMT), starts 20 Jan 2025. Please note: Entry to this course is by application only. If you would like to join, please send a submission of three poems to [email protected].
To apply for a concession rate, please send relevant documentation showing your eligibility for one of our concessions to [email protected]. Conditions of eligibility are detailed here. More information about how our Video Courses work can be found on the Video Courses page. If you have any questions or wish to be added to the waiting list of a sold-out course, please email [email protected].
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About Wayne Holloway-Smith 
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Wayne Holloway-Smith has published two collections of poetry, Alarum (Bloodaxe 2017), a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice, and Love Minus Love (Bloodaxe 2020), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. He won the National Poetry Competition in 2018. Additionally, his pocketbook, Beloved, in case you’ve been wondering was published by Donut Press in 2011; I CAN’T WAIT FOR THE WENDING, an experimental unbound book of poems, was published by Prototype in 2018; his latest work, Lobsters, was published by Makina Books in 2021. He is currently the editor for Poetry Review.
"I find myself much better informed overall on the modern British canon of poetry after the course. Wayne is funny and engaging while leading and moderating the group discussions. The course covered the nuts and bolts of what drives the contemporary poem- in terms of movement, turns, juggling subjects, expansion techniques and experimenting with voice."
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