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Forms of Storytelling Masterclass: A Story is a Story is a Story

£215.00 *

Tutor: Leah Umansky

Forms of Storytelling Masterclass: A Story is a Story is a Story

Tell the tale that is waiting to be told; break the rules and propel your story through poetry.

Start Date: January 12, 2026
End Date: April 6, 2026 ( 85 Days )
Type: Online

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

£135.00 *

Tutor: Jennifer Wong

Writing Kinships & Emotional Landscapes

Kinships can shape us as people and the emotional landscapes in which we live; join as we explore those rich relationships and notions of belonging in your writing.

Start Date: January 22, 2026
End Date: April 2, 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

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The Poetry School are looking to hire a Programmes and Website Administrator to join our friendly team for a fixed term 12-month period. Programmes and Website Administrator Fixed term, 12 months, full-time. £26,000 per annum. This post is suitable for an experienced arts or education administrator, with CRM and website management experience, looking to join the team of an…

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Essential Patterns in Poetry

As part of our Poetry Craft series, Carmen Bugan discusses the essential patterns used in poetry: triolet, rondeau, villanelle, sonnet, sestina, and ballad. Let’s start with the triolet: what makes this form special, and do you have a favourite poem that shows it at its best? Writing a triolet is an excellent way to begin…

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Catherine-Esther Cowie – 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 Catherine-Esther Cowie on her collection Heirloom. A Break from Words During the height of Covid-19, I had just finished my MFA…

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Poetry in the Age of AI

Can AI deepen our understanding of poetry practice? As part of our Poetic Craft series, Hannah Silva discusses how AI has impacted poetry. Do you think poets should be using AI, or writing about it? Or maybe both? The widespread use of large language models (LLMs), and the way they can produce texts that resemble creative writing so quickly makes…

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Translation as Creative Writing

As part of our Poetry Craft series, Steve Komarnyckyj discusses the craft of translation in creative writing. Do you think every act of writing is a kind of translation? We are all translators. Everything we do is an act of translation. Our brains interpret the sensory data flooding our perceptions. Each of us inhabits a world that we have “translated“…

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