Challenge and choice in developing your voice.


For more information and FAQs about how our courses work, please go to our In-Person Courses, Video Courses and Online Courses pages.
Challenge and choice in developing your voice.
Extra Summer sessions of Matthew Caley's intimate monthly seminars.
Playful prompts, poetry games, pure fun. Join our next monthly play time session!
Swim in the waters of joyous experimentalism to inspire new innovations of your own!
Explore the joy and resilience of pastoral writing from Global Majority poets.
Take inspiration from the enfant terrible of Surrealism and the master of symbolist writing.
Crafting connection – poetic body meets world.
“There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.”
Summon the poetics of the seasonally sensitive with dark arts, folklore, and myth.
Explore oral history, transcripts, and documentary in your poetry.
Knock loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback from poet, critic, and tutor, Zakia Carpenter-Hall.
Explore how the world of prose can offer fresh new perspectives on your poetry and vice versa.
Our long-running weekly workshop with Tim Dooley, for poets looking to develop their individual voice and technique.
Expand your ekphrasis as we Transread Paul Klee's 'degenerate art' art into innovative new poems.
Conjure, invoke, charm, and create with the raw magic of poetic language.
Find form and freedom in the famous fourteen.
Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou.
Challenge yourself, elevate your writing, and take the next steps in your poetry career
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.
Show your caring side as we explore the possibilities of a more caring poetics.
Explore the treasures of textual archives from around the world with experimental poet-publishers, Autumn Richardson & Richard Skelton of Corbel Stone Press.
An advanced weekly workshop group with the inimitable Mark Waldron.
An exciting advanced workshop group with the much-loved Rachel Long and the benefit of special guest tutors each term.
Explore environmental justice, ecological grief, and environmental memory through innovative multimedia poetry.
How can we write poetry through times of ecological emergency, perpetual war, or personal crises?
Spark your creativity and take your first steps into the world of poetry!
Join the great poetic conversation and think about how to steal, allude, translate, remix, modernise, and answer back.
Inspiration from the East – Transread Japanese forms, poets, and traditions with Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana.
Explore the effects of poetry's metrical engine as we listen closely to language.
A weekly workshop for developing poets looking to improve their writing through feedback and close reading.
Join this group for close discussion of your writing with acclaimed poet, Richard Price.
Monthly all-day Saturday workshops with Kathryn Simmonds.
Thirteen ways of writing an ode to a darkling skylark.
A radical new course exploring trans- & multilingual writing with the innovative Astrid Alben.
Join a supportive community for close reading and developmental feedback on your new poems!
Writers often refer to their books as their babies – but what about texts about babies themselves?
Push your poetic skills, find the sparks behind stories, and explore the harmony between words and pictures when writing for children.
What lives and breathes in the spaces between moment and moment; what possibilities arise from these bridges of quiet?
Write through loss, in all its forms, to find what you've gained on the other side of grief.
Learn to capture a reader’s attention within seconds and leave them wanting more.
Explore Lee Miller's trailblazing photographs at Tate Britain as inspiration for new poems.
The Poetry School’s teaching year runs over three ‘terms’ – Autumn, Spring and Summer. Each term we offer around 40-50 courses and workshops that cater to a variety of levels, varying in length and subject matter. The course programme changes every term with more new courses, workshops and tutors, but often includes courses that run over three terms and popular repeats.
We offer both ‘classroom’ teaching (UK) and ‘virtual’ teaching (international). You can visit our In-Person Courses, Video Courses and Online Courses pages for more detailed information about course structures, process and what to expect.
Most of our courses and workshops accommodate writers with a wide range of experience, but some are specifically designed for beginners or more practicised poets.
Here are our definitions:
Our programme is developed around these three teaching levels, although we also offer many courses that are Open to all – courses aimed at all levels, often focusing on a specific theme or inspirational subject matter.
‘Literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm’ – OED
‘Poetry is a heightened imagistic use of language that does things to the heart and head’ – Grace Nichols
‘A made thing, a verbal construct, an event in language’ – Edward Hirsch
‘Poetry is memorable speech’ – W H Auden
‘Poetry does not explain life. It gives life to feeling and seeing’ – Sarah Stetie
‘Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not’ – Samuel Johnson