Beth Evans (Poetry School)Our Spring Term is now live! We have a whole host of brilliant tutors and poetry courses ready for you to pick from and, as they tend to sell out really fast, we’ve made this Spring 2026 Quick Course Guide to help guide you to the right course.
Online Courses
INTERNATIONAL
Online courses without Live Chats, suitable for students in all time zones.
Write into your emotions and sensitivities, as we explore pairs of feelings and produce passionate poetry for these emotionally-charged times.
Summon the poetics of the seasonally sensitive with dark arts, folklore, and myth.
Explore landscapes of strangeness as we “Re-Weird” Albion and dig down to uncover the dark folklore, uncanny hauntings, and radical myths entangled in our roots.
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.
Seek cartographic inspiration in your poetry, as we explore many forms of maps – from children’s books, to fantasy worlds, to modern art, and psychogeography.
Connecting the performative to your poetic, inspired by innovative contemporary practitioners.
Can we co-opt technological tools to take the house apart and see if there is a cybernetic meadow beneath?
Explore neurodivergent thinking as a source of poetic power as we put our skills of divergence, intensity, and spontaneity into new poems.
Elevate your prose poetry game, as we dive into the specifics and peculiarities of prose poems and flash fiction.
TRANSREADING
Transcend culture, languages, and genres to write poems and translations in response to wide readings.
Take inspiration from one of contemporary poetry’s true masters! Join us as we capture animals, let them go, obsess over detail, and refuse to reach significance in our writing.
Delve deep into below-ground ecologies to write ‘undersongs’ of our own underlands.
Explore the wide oeuvre of Edward Thomas as inspiration for your own writing, as we dive into nature, symbolism, the past, idleness, and our own glorious complexities.
Explore faith and creative betrayal in the fascinating art of linguistic translation.
MASTERCLASSES
Advanced and in-depth poetry courses focusing on craft and theory.
Explore the joy and resilience of pastoral writing from Global Majority poets.
Beyond next word prediction: rethinking poetry, technology and creative solitude.
Tell the tale that is waiting to be told; break the rules and propel your story through poetry.
Respond to poetry pranks throughout history.
Test out techniques and explore the repeating beats of traditional forms.
FEEDBACK
Receive thoughtful critiques of 5 poems from your peers and an esteemed tutor.
Knock loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback from poet, editor, and tutor, Edward Doegar.
STUDIOS
Short, intensive poetry courses focusing on writing and inspiration.
First, second, third person; explore how different points of view and narrative positions affect your poems.
Traversing from revelry to meditation using cultural masks to discover our own true selves.
Follow the lunar cycle and make your own meanings out of the moon in poetry.
Unearth the deep and enduring treasures buried in the cracks of language and investigate the unspoken in poetry.
Revel in the upraised voices of peri and menopausal women and banish the taboo of writing about the life transition.
Learn to capture a reader’s attention within seconds and leave them wanting more with Forward Prize-winning and T.S. Eliot Prize-nominated Isabelle Baafi!
Video/In-Person
SHORT COURSES
Delve into the knotty world of our oldest, and often hardest, relationships in your poetry.
Explore the meeting place between poetry and spell-casting and learn how both tell and keep secrets in your writing.
Dreamscapes, stillness, and self-discovery; join us as we dive into the world of mindfulness and poetic craft.
Punk quilting and Petrarch; get romantic this February, as we explore the latest innovations in love poetry.
3 TERM COURSES
Please note our Advanced Workshops are by application only, so if you are a new student or wishing to book a workshop with a tutor you haven’t worked before, please send across 3 samples of your poetry to [email protected] before you book your place.
A blank page – do or don’t? The first module in our new Pathways Through Poetry series. Jump in and we’ll guide you through the journey to poetic success!
A radical course exploring trans- & multilingual writing with the innovative Astrid Alben.
Application only.
Spark your creativity and take your first steps into the world of poetry!
Join a supportive community for close reading and developmental feedback on your new poems!
Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou.
Application only.
Challenge yourself, elevate your writing, and take the next steps in your poetry career.
Application only.
Mix up your writing and learn new skills and techniques with Jacqueline Saphra.
Bring your writing to the next level and explore contemporary poetry’s cutting-edge.
Our long-running weekly workshop with Tim Dooley, for poets looking to develop their individual voice and technique.
An exciting advanced workshop group with the much-loved Rachel Long and the benefit of special guest tutors each term.
Application only.
An advanced weekly workshop group with the inimitable Mark Waldron.
Application only.
How can we write poetry through times of ecological emergency, perpetual war, or personal crises?
Join this group for close discussion of your writing with acclaimed poet, Richard Price.
Application only.
A weekly workshop for developing poets looking to improve their writing through feedback and close reading.
Monthly all-day Saturday workshops with Kathryn Simmonds.
If you’d like to read more about what each course offers, please visit our Courses page. We also have some more information about how our courses work on our What to Expect page.
If you need any information on concessions or bursaries, please have a look through our Financial Support page or send an email to [email protected] and we’d be happy to help.
Happy Booking!
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