Poetry SchoolTo celebrate 10 years of the MA in Writing in Poetry, we are delighted to announce a series of exciting zoom workshops tutored by fresh voices from our MA Graduates taking place this September! Check out our fantastic line up and make sure you book your place soon to avoid disappointment.
This workshop will look at poems in which distance does not diminish feeling but intensifies it, redistributing the labour of emotion so that the reader becomes its co-producer rather than its recipient.
Tutor: Iulia David
Time: 6.30pm – 9.00pm
Take part in writing exercises inspired by René Magritte’s fascination with object relationships, disrupting ‘normal’ spatial and temporal contiguity to create poems driven by a destabilising associative logic.
Tutor: Rachael Brown
Time: 10.30am – 1.30pm
Ovid’s cited reason for exile will be taken as a motif for exploring poetics of the erotic and in terms of the energy and role of accidents and mistakes in poetry.
Tutor: Rushika Wick
Time: 10.30am – 1.30pm
This workshop explores poems in which the lyric voice is placed under pressure: interrupted by competing narratives, temporal shifts, or destabilising turns in thought.
Tutor: Ophira Adar
Time: 6.30pm – 9.00pm
Explore four different routes through nature poetry – documentation, resistance, nature as solace, and imagined alternative futures – as exemplified by poems by Mary Oliver, Gary Snyder, Seamus Heaney, and Wendell Berry.
Tutor: Ben Verinder
Time: 6.30pm – 9.00pm
Join poet and psychotherapist Catherine Balaq in this poetry workshop exploring sacred female rage where you will look to stories about women from Greek mythology and the bible to give voice to the unspoken.
Tutor: Catherine Balaq
Time: 6.30pm – 9.00pm
Looking at key New York poets Frank O’Hara and James Schuyler, alongside their peers and the poets they inspired, you will explore chatty tone, breaking rules, and play with putting disparate elements from our daily lives into poems.
Tutor: Steph Morris
Time: 10.30am – 1.30pm
Explore how poetry can convey lasting attachments to children or parents following their absence, whether by death or a transition such as leaving home.
Tutor: Sam Szanto
Time: 10.30am – 1.30pm
This workshop looks to use those games from childhood or elsewhere to guide the generation of new work and, more specifically, to play with ideas of what is possible in the rendering of new poetry in terms of form and structure.
Tutor: Elontra Hall
Time: 6.30pm – 9.00pm
Thinking about your first pamphlet? This workshop will cover the 3 key stages of getting your first pamphlet out into the world; 1) sequencing 2) editing and 3) publishing.
Tutor: Kat Dixon
Time: 6.30pm – 9pm
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.
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