A safe space to plant new poems and watch them bloom.
Poems as Constellations
What is constellatory poetics, and how can we light up our own poems from the inside?
Prosody & Rhyme
A workshop on rhyme, prosody and memory.
Writing the Body
Making sense of the mess and glory of the human body.
Where Poetry Meets Notions of 'Performance'
What does performance lend to poetry and vice versa?
Blurring Empire: A Visual Poetry Workshop
How does visual poetry make space for multiplicity?
Making in the Margins
Writing in the often-forgotten zones
Poetry of Hours
How do we translate the pain of losing love into poetry?
What Clickbait Can Teach Us about Poetry
Grabbing your readers’ attention and holding on to it.
Mayonnaise & the Sublime Masterclass
Locating the liminal in conceptual emulsion – poetics at the unfathomable edge.
Creative Constraint [Summer 2024]
Mix up your writing, and learn new skills and techniques with Jacqueline Saphra.
Finding the Form; Breaking the Mould [Summer 2024]
Hone your craft, explore poetry’s inner workings, and look at techniques to help your poems achieve lift-off.
Italian Influencers: Transreading Italian Poetry
Inimitable Italian poetics – from the classical to the current.
Reclaiming the ‘I’: Masterclass
Rediscover the 'I' and examine the delights of its persona.
Myth, Magic, & Monsters: Ancient Stories, New Truths
Mine the magical in modern and historic poetry; creating your own personal poetic of myth.
Fortnightly Feedback with Arji Manuelpillai
Knock your loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback from poet and PBS pamphlet choice selector, Arji Manuelpillai.
Searching & Finding: The Poetry of Road Movies
Journaling the joy of journeys – hit the highways of your own poetic hinterland.
Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron [Summer 2024]
An advanced weekly workshop group with the inimitable Mark Waldron.
Science & Poetry
Fissile material; experiment with scientific stanzas and supercharge your poetic skills.
Zig Zag Motifs: Lyric Invitation, Immersion, & Criticism Masterclass
The poet as critic, the critic as artist – poetics across the divide.
Whose Story is it Anyway? Exploring Unreliable Narration
Oh speaker, my speaker; exploring the varied voices hiding behind the poetic curtain.
Saturday Sessions with Ros Barber [Summer 2024]
Monthly all-day Saturday workshops with Ros Barber.
What Next? with Wayne Holloway-Smith (Advanced) [Summer 2024]
Challenge yourself, elevate your writing, and take the next steps in your poetry career.
Advanced Poetry Workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou [Summer 2024]
Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou.
Invisible Frames: On & Beyond the Sonnet
Find form and freedom in the famous fourteen.
SCULPTING LANGUAGE: Women Making Visual Poetry
Explore the sensorial dimension of visual poetry by engaging with the work of exciting, innovative women poets.
Metamorphosis – Becoming Animal in Poetry Studio
Back to being a beast; the animus of animality.
What Now? with Wayne Holloway Smith (Intermediate) [Summer 2024]
Bring your writing to the next level and explore contemporary poetry’s cutting-edge.
Advanced Poetry Workshop with Astrid Alben [Summer 2024]
An exciting advanced workshop group with the innovative Astrid Alben.
Into the Dark Forest – Transreading Dante’s Divine Comedy
Find inspiration in the mesmerising world of Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Rachel Long’s Advanced Workshop with Special Guests [Summer 2024]
An exciting new advanced workshop group with the much-loved Rachel Long and the benefit of special guest tutors each term.
Writing Alternative Poetic Histories
Remake history and poetic traditions to imbue a chaotic present with meaning.
Wednesday Workshop with Tim Dooley [Summer 2024]
Our long-running weekly workshop with Tim Dooley, for poets looking to develop their individual voice and technique.
Live Wires: Starting to Write [Summer 2024]
Spark your creativity and take your first steps into the world of poetry!
Recite! Read! Critique! Edit!
Playing to the crowd; polish your pieces through the poetics of performance.
Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price [Summer 2024]
Join this group for rigorous discussion of your writing with acclaimed poet Richard Price.
Transreading the Pamphlet Form with Guillemot Press
Explore the creative potential of the pamphlet form with expert pamphlet publishers, Guillemot Press.
Intermediate Poetry Workshop with Natasha Hakimi Zapata [Summer 2024]
Our weekly workshop for intermediate poets looking to develop their work.
Poetic Theft: From Inspiration to Transformation
A transformative workshop series about harnessing your inspirations to expand your writing.
Joy in the Detail: Reading, Writing, & Editing as Creative Process
Develop your critical confidence and editorial skills with the editor-in-chief at Nine Arches Press.
Poems & Houses
House & home; poetics of our storied buildings.
Revolutionary Poetics: Writing Against the Grain
Alternate art; busting open the poem to embrace new and experimental forms.
The Flowers of Rhetoric Applied to Your Poems
Rhetoric tekkers, for poems that bloom.
Poetry & the Handwritten: Between Pen & Page Studio+
Explore the poetic potential of the handwritten word and discover the unique authenticity of putting pen to paper.
Taking a Position: Points of View Studio
First, second, third person; explore how different points of view and narrative positions affect your poems.
From Kansas to Oz Studio
Disorient and delight as you whisk readers from the everyday to the extraordinary.
Flâneur-ing About: The Poetry of Streets
The meaningful meander; writing the city on the hoof.
Movement Through the Lines: the Dynamic Poem Studio
Kinetic poetics and the dauntless dynamic.
A Quest for Innocence in a Troubled World
Honing hope; awakening a poetics of wonder in a worrisome world.