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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: Online, Zoom

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: Online, Zoom

£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: Online, Zoom

Recent Blog Updates

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

Five Love Poems You Should be Reading Right Now

As Valentine’s Day draws closer, our tutor Elizabeth Parker, who will be teaching the upcoming course This Modern Love recommends her top five love poems you should be reading right now. Image by Turgay Koca A contemporary love poem ‘Like Love’ by Jo Bell The hardworking two-word title of this poem frames a thrilling depiction of snow…

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Elizabeth Parker

Where to Submit Your Poetry

You’ve just completed a Poetry School course and have written and edited a few new poems, so what now? Here are some places to publish and submit your poetry. Submitting your poems to a magazine, journal, or press is the first step to sharing your work with an audience and building up a readership, which…

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Writing in Lent and Ramadan

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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Fawzia Kane

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…

Posted in T.S. Eliot Writers' Notes 2025 2 weeks ago by

Jamie McKendrick

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