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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

Poetry Through the Lens of Multilingual Writing with Astrid Alben

£180.00 *

Tutor: Astrid Alben

Poetry Through the Lens of Multilingual Writing with Astrid Alben

A radical new course exploring trans- & multilingual writing with the innovative Astrid Alben.

Start Date: February 14, 2026 10am–1pm
End Date: April 11, 2026 ( 57 Days )
Type: Video

£100.00 *

Tutor: Elizabeth Parker

This Modern Love

Punk quilting and Petrarch; get romantic this February, as we explore the latest innovations in love poetry.

Start Date: February 14, 2026
End Date: March 28, 2026 ( 43 Days )
Type: Video

Recent Blog Updates

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

Our tutor Fawzia Kane discusses the poetic queries surrounding writing in Lent and Ramadan, as well as her upcoming course which delves into inner reflection and deep contemplation through poetry. Both Lent and Ramadan involve periods of fasting and reflection. How do you think restrictions like these affect the way we pay attention to language…

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Courses for Winning Competitions

When working on a poem, you need to instantly hook a reader, make them feel something, and provide a fresh perspective on something universal. We have listed a range of courses that will help you dazzle on the page and think outside the box, which will help increase your chances of even winning competitions! Poetry…

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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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Jamie McKendrick

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 Winning Competitions

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

Catherine-Esther Cowie – T.S. Eliot Writers' Notes

Nick Makoha – T.S. Eliot Writers' Notes

Courses for Putting Together a Pamphlet

Gillian Allnutt – T.S. Eliot Writers' Notes

Natalie Shapero – T.S. Eliot Writers' Notes

Vona Groarke – T.S. Eliot Writers' Notes

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Lighting the World: Writing in Times of Crisis

The Mirror of Masks: Bacchanalia to Contemplation Studio+

Poetry Through the Lens of Multilingual Writing with Astrid Alben

This Modern Love

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Recent Blog Updates

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

Writing in Lent and Ramadan

Courses for Winning Competitions

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

Exploring your Emotions in Poetry

Excavation Poetics: Writing Through Language as Ruin