Stav Poleg Cambridge Seminar 2026/27
Intimate monthly seminars with Stav Poleg in Cambridge.
Monthly seminar groups with Stav Poleg in Cambridge, 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 eight 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. Participants in this Seminar group will also be invited to read for CB1 Poetry later in the year.
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.
8 x monthly sessions at the Rock Road Library, Cambridge (CB1 7UG): Classes will run Saturday 10.30am–1pm on the below dates:
10-Oct
14-Nov
19-Dec
16-Jan
20-Feb
20-Mar
17-Apr
15-May
More information about how all our seminars work can be found on the Seminars Course Page.
About Stav Poleg 
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Stav Poleg is the author of the poetry collections THE BANQUET (shortlisted for the PEN Heaney Prize 2025) and THE CITY (shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for First Collection 2023), both books published by Carcanet Press. Her poetry has appeared on both sides of the Atlantic, in The New Yorker, Poetry Daily, Poetry London, Poetry Ireland Review, PN Review and elsewhere. Her work is featured in leading anthologies, including A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker (Knopf, 2025), The Forward Book of Poetry (Faber, 2024), and New Poetries VIII (Carcanet, 2021). Her graphic-novel installation, ‘Dear Penelope: Variations on an August Morning’, created with artist Laura Gressani, was acquired by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Her theatre work was read at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, and the Shunt Vaults, London, and most recently at Kettle’s Yard gallery, Cambridge. She serves on the editorial board of Magma Poetry, where she co-edited recent issues linking poetry with the worlds of Film, Physics, and Architecture.
"Stav’s feedback is always encouraging, thoughtful, genuine and focused. Stav’s suggestions and ideas for getting work published were helpful and inspiring. I have really appreciated the past two years and hope that all I have learnt will continue to inform my reading and writing."
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