The Close Read: Advanced Poetry Workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou
Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou.
* This course will take place on the video-conferencing platform ZOOM *
Each week, poets on this advanced workshop will benefit from in-depth group discussion of their work in a supportive critical environment. The course will focus on editing and developing your poems-in-progress, alongside providing inspiration from a broad range of poetry to expand your practice, push your writing to the next level, and introduce you to a close-knit critical community of like-minded poets. This is workshop is for advanced poets looking for detailed and robust criticism of their work and aiming for significant development in their writing, reading, and critical practices; expect to be challenged and invigorated in your reading and writing.
10 weekly Zoom sessions on Mondays, 2–4pm (BST), starts 6 October 2025. Please note: Entry to this course is by application only. If you would like to join, please send a submission of three poems to [email protected].
Concessions & Accessibility
To apply for a concession rate, please send relevant documentation showing your eligibility for one of our concessions to [email protected]. Conditions of eligibility are detailed here. If you have any questions or wish to be added to the waiting list of a sold-out course, please email [email protected].
What to Expect
Please check the left hand side of this page for information on how this course works in practice, under the heading ‘Course Style‘. If you’re unsure as to what any of the terms there mean, or if this course is a good fit for you, please visit our What to Expect page which includes some further information on how our courses function.
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About Anthony Anaxagorou 
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Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist and publisher.
His second collection, After the Formalities, published with Penned in the Margins, is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the 2019 T.S. Eliot Prize along with the 2021 Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections. It was also a Telegraph and Guardian poetry book of the year.
His third collection, Heritage Aesthetics, published with Granta Poetry in 2022, won the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2023 and was shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award. It was listed as one of New Statesman’s top books of 2022.
In 2020 he published How To Write It with Merky Books; a practical guide fused with tips and memoir looking at the politics of writing as well as the craft of poetry and fiction along with the wider publishing industry.
Anthony is artistic director of Out-Spoken, a monthly poetry and music night held at London’s Southbank Centre, and publisher of Out-Spoken Press. He is the editor-in-chief of Propel Magazine, an online literary journal featuring the work of poets yet to publish a first collection. In 2019, he was made an honorary fellow at the University of Roehampton.
‘Anthony is simply the best and the class experience he creates is fantastic - supportive and respectful, challenging and engaging.’
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