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Autumn 2025 – Quick Course Guide

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How I Did It: Forward Prizes - Catherine-Esther Cowie on ‘Mimorian’

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The Art of Poetic Experimentation: Push Boundaries, Break Forms, Find Freedom 

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Carol Watts - Laurel Prize: Below the Surface

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Katrina Porteous - Laurel Prize: Below the Surface

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Eliza O'Toole - Laurel Prize: Below the Surface

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JR Carpenter - Laurel Prize: Below the Surface

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Judith Beveridge - Laurel Prize: Below the Surface

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Mastery & Momentum: Advanced Poetry Courses & Masterclasses 

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How to: Captivate with Picture Books

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 Kathryn Simmonds on how to captivate with picture books. Are there key differences between writing for adults and…

Posted in Blog 15 hours ago by Kathryn Simmonds
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How I Did It: Forward Prizes – Isabelle Baafi ‘Piggy’

Welcome to our Forward Prizes 2025 ’How I Did It’ series. This year we asked poets shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection to write about the inspiration behind one of the poems from their chosen collection. Here’s Isabelle Baafi on what inspired her to write the poem ‘Piggy’ in Chaotic Good. PIGGY From Horror…

Posted in Blog 16 hours ago by Isabelle Baafi
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How I Did It: Forward Prizes – Catherine-Esther Cowie on ‘Mimorian’

Welcome to our Forward Prizes 2025 ’How I Did It’ series. This year we asked poets shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection to write about the inspiration behind one of the poems from their chosen collection. Here’s Catherine-Esther Cowie on what inspired her to write the poem ‘Mimorian’ in Heirloom. In Another Language ‘Mimorian’…

Posted in Blog 7 days ago by Catherine-Esther Cowie
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The Art of Poetic Experimentation: Push Boundaries, Break Forms, Find Freedom 

For poets who love to play, innovate, and challenge the limits of form, our experimental poetry courses are an invitation to risk, reimagine, and reinvent. These courses celebrate unpredictability, genre-bending approaches, and wild creative impulses – perfect for those looking to spark something new.  Whether you’re working in collage, constraint, visual poetry, or hybrid forms,…

Posted in Blog 2 weeks ago by Poetry School
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Carol Watts – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface

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….

Posted in Laurel Prize: Below the Surface 3 weeks ago by Carol Watts
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