Poetry School • Inspiring Poetry Tuition

£20.00 *

Tutor: Nick Murray

Poetry School Play: Party

Playful prompts, poetry games, pure fun. Join our next monthly play session on National Poetry Day!

Start Date: October 2, 2025 7–8pm
End Date: October 2, 2025 ( 1 Day )
Type: Video

£300.00 *

Tutor: Isabelle Baafi

Isabelle Baafi Zoom Seminars 2025/26

Intimate monthly seminars with Isabelle Baafi on Zoom.

Start Date: October 8, 2025 6.30pm
End Date: May 13, 2026 ( 218 Days )
Type: Seminar, Video

Friday Workshop with Natasha Hakimi Zapata

£240.00 *

Tutor: Natasha Hakimi Zapata

Friday Workshop with Natasha Hakimi Zapata

A weekly workshop for developing poets looking to improve their writing through feedback and close reading.

Start Date: October 17, 2025
End Date: December 19, 2025 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

£65.00 *

Tutor: Kathryn Simmonds

The Poetry of Picture Books

Push your poetic skills, find the sparks behind stories, and explore the harmony between words and pictures when writing for children.

Start Date: October 25, 2025
End Date: October 25, 2025 ( 1 Day )
Type: In-person • Location: The Bindery, London

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Welcome to our Below the Surface series for the 2025 Laurel Prize finalists. These pieces shine a light on the creative practice behind these outstanding collections and show how nature and the climate crisis impacted the authors’ processes. Here’s Carol Watts on her collection Mimic Pond. I’ve written poetry as far back as I can remember….

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Welcome to our Below the Surface series for the 2025 Laurel Prize finalists. These pieces shine a light on the creative practice behind these outstanding collections and show how nature and the climate crisis impacted the authors’ processes. Here’s Katrina Porteous on her collection Rhizodont. Networks of Nature Communities and Commissions I did not set out…

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Welcome to our Below the Surface series for the 2025 Laurel Prize finalists. These pieces shine a light on the creative practice behind these outstanding collections and show how nature and the climate crisis impacted the authors’ processes. Here’s Eliza O’Toole on her collection A Cranic of Ordinaries. Writing as the tip of the iceberg How…

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