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Fidelity & Betrayal: Linguistic Translation

£135.00 *

Tutor: Steve Komarnyckyj

Fidelity & Betrayal: Linguistic Translation

Explore faith and creative betrayal in the fascinating art of linguistic translation.

Start Date: January 21, 2026
End Date: April 1, 2026 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Microscope, Telescope, Periscope: An Ecopoetics of Technology

£135.00 *

Tutor: Caleb Parkin

Microscope, Telescope, Periscope: An Ecopoetics of Technology

Can we co-opt technological tools to take the house apart and see if there is a cybernetic meadow beneath?

Start Date: January 23, 2026
End Date: April 3, 2026 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Lighting the World: Writing in Times of Crisis

£240.00 *

Tutor: Shazea Quraishi

Lighting the World: Writing in Times of Crisis

Take poetic action in response to these times of war, displacement and climate emergency.

Start Date: February 4, 2026
End Date: April 8, 2026 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

The Mirror of Masks: Bacchanalia to Contemplation Studio+

£125.00 *

Tutor: Fawzia Kane

The Mirror of Masks: Bacchanalia to Contemplation Studio+

Traversing from revelry to meditation using cultural masks to discover our own true selves.

Start Date: February 11, 2026
End Date: March 18, 2026 ( 36 Days )
Type: Online

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Jamie McKendrick on Tom Paulin – T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes

Welcome to our Writers’ Notes for the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist. These are educational resources for poets looking to develop their practice and learn from some of contemporary poetry’s most exciting and accomplished voices. Here’s Jamie McKendrick on Tom Paulin‘s collection Namanlagh. A Sparer Idiom In the days when poetry workshops were rare and when no…

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Exploring your Emotions in Poetry

In this series, we interview our tutors about poetry and its place in their world. These interviews will cover creative writing tips, excelling in a poetry workshop, building a literary career, and finding your poetic voice. Here’s Sarah Wardle on how to explore your emotions in poetry. Writing can help us process feelings we don’t…

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Sarah Wardle

Excavation Poetics: Writing Through Language as Ruin

As part of our Poetry Craft series, Giulia Ottavia Frattini discusses the practise of excavation poetics and how to write through language as ruin. Your course talks about poetry beginning where language fractures. How can a poet start writing from gaps, silences, or fragments? Poems often embody the fleeting with such a resonant attunement that…

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Courses for Getting Your Poetry Published

When you’ve established a writing practice and are looking for tangible results of your progress, getting your poetry published can be a good aim. All our courses and workshops are great for getting poems onto the page, but we have a handful that will help you find a unique voice and burnish existing pieces – getting them ready for print. “I joined my first Poetry School course when I had…

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Isabelle Baafi – T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes

Welcome to our Writers’ Notes for the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist. These are educational resources for poets looking to develop their practice and learn from some of contemporary poetry’s most exciting and accomplished voices. Here’s Isabelle Baafi on her collection Chaotic Good. Pearls of Wisdom A poetry collection is the result of more than one person’s…

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Jamie McKendrick on Tom Paulin – T.S. Eliot Writers' Notes

Exploring your Emotions in Poetry

Courses for Getting Your Poetry Published

Excavation Poetics: Writing Through Language as Ruin

Isabelle Baafi – T.S. Eliot Writers' Notes

Page Against the Machine (II)

Courses for Building a Writing Community

Sarah Howe – T.S. Eliot Writers' Notes

Essential Patterns in Poetry

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Nick Makoha – T.S. Eliot Writers' Notes

Courses for Putting Together a Pamphlet

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Fidelity & Betrayal: Linguistic Translation

Microscope, Telescope, Periscope: An Ecopoetics of Technology

Lighting the World: Writing in Times of Crisis

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Recent Blog Updates

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

Jamie McKendrick on Tom Paulin – T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes

Exploring your Emotions in Poetry

Excavation Poetics: Writing Through Language as Ruin

Courses for Getting Your Poetry Published

Isabelle Baafi – T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes