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Finding Your Poetic Inspiration

Are you stuck in a writers’ block, or struggling to find that spark of inspiration for writing new poetry?

Finding inspiration for your poetry can be tricky at times, so we’ve put together a list of our courses which include a variety of themes guaranteed to unlock new ideas and get those creative juices flowing!

Writing in response; capturing the life of poetry, in poetry with Leah Umansky. Starts 15 May.

Write from the archival hoard with Rebecca Watts. Starts 12 May.

This course is currently sold out, if you would like to be added to the waiting list please email [email protected].

Join Rosemarie Corlett and explore, question, and glimpse alternatives to our poetic relationship with blue spaces. Starts 13 May.

Take poetic action in response to these times of war, displacement and climate emergency with Shazea Quraishi. Starts 20 May.

Create poetry inspired by the beautifully intense world of Dante Alighieri’s masterpiece of love, passion, and loss: the Vita Nuova with Stav Poleg. Starts 16 June.

Object brilliance; making poetry through the portal of thinginess with Jon Edwards. Starts 7 May.

This course is currently sold out, if you would like to be added to the waiting list please email [email protected].

A Mythopoetic course exploring Archetypal Gods as inspiration for your own poems with Zena Edwards. Starts 11 May.

Unpicking the threads; explore your writing wardrobe and dress up your poems with Sue Burge. Starts 15 June.

Punk quilting and Petrarch; get romantic as we explore the latest innovations in love poetry with Elizabeth Parker. Starts 28 May.

Join Rachel Bower and explore how the minutest of objects, details or words can offer new ways of thinking about the climate emergency. Starts 6 May.

If you unsure whether a course or workshop is the right fit for you, please check our What to Expect page which includes some useful information on how they work. Alternatively, if a course has sold our or if you have any further queries please contact us at [email protected] and we would be happy to assist.

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