Jacqueline Saphra Monthly London Seminars 2026/27
Intimate seminars with Jacqueline Saphra in London.
Seminar groups with Jacqueline Saphra in London, featuring close reading, in-depth discussion and feedback on your poems-in-progress, as well as conversation around contemporary poetry and guidance on your next steps as a poet. With a maximum of seven students in each group, these seminars provide an intimate setting and generate supportive and critical friendships, helping you to become part of your local poetry community.
Entry into the seminars is by application only. If you would like to sign up, please email [email protected] for information and we will assist you in the application process.
Do not book online before applying.
Sessions will run 6.30–9pm on the below dates and generally be held in-person at Bankside, London, SE1 9TG. You can choose your specific group at the next stage in the checkout process.
Wednesday Group
14-Oct
11-Nov
9-Dec
10-Feb
10-Mar
14-Apr
12-May
9-Jun
Thursday Group
15-Oct
12-Nov
10-Dec
11-Feb
11-Mar
15-Apr
13-May
10-Jun
More information about how all our seminars work can be found on the Seminars Course Page.
About Jacqueline Saphra 
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Jacqueline Saphra is a poet, playwright, teacher, and activist. She is the author of nine plays, four chapbooks, and five poetry collections. Her second collection, All My Mad Mothers was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and her fifth, Velvel’s Violin, a Poetry Book Society recommendation and a Poetry Book of the Month Radio 4 Extra, was out from Nine Arches Press in July 2023. Jacqueline is a founder member of Poets for the Planet.
"Jacqui creates a relaxed and very supportive space within the seminar group in which students are free to explore their own and each others' work in the light of constructive feedback."
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