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How to Improve Your Poetry: Writer’s Block
In this series, we interview our tutors about poetry and its place in their world. These interviews will cover creative writing tips, excelling in a poetry workshop, building a literary career, and finding your poetic voice. Here’s Yanita Georgieva on how to deal with writer’s block. For any writer, there are two terrible states of…
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How to Write Poetry: Can Poetry Help Us Explore Queerness?
In this series, we interview our tutors about poetry and its place in their world. These interviews will cover creative writing tips, excelling in a poetry workshop, building a literary career, and finding your poetic voice. Here’s Kat Dixon on how poetry can help us explore queerness. Kat will be running her course Queer Objects:…
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How to Improve Your Poetry: Poetry as a Revolution of Language
In this series, we interview our tutors about poetry and its place in their world. These interviews will cover creative writing tips, excelling in a poetry workshop, building a literary career, and finding your poetic voice. Here’s Rebecca Levi on poetry as a revolution of language. Rebecca is running The Poetics of Latin American Resistance:…
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How to: Get your Poetry Published
In this series, we interview our tutors about poetry and its place in their world. These interviews will cover creative writing tips, excelling in a poetry workshop, building a literary career, and finding your poetic voice. Here’s James Byrne on getting your poetry published. 1. How did you go about getting your first poem/pamphlet/collection published?…
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How to: Writing, across the Seasons
In this series, we interview our tutors about poetry and its place in their world. These interviews will cover creative writing tips, excelling in a poetry workshop, building a literary career, and finding your poetic voice. Here’s Tice Cin discussing how to write about Winter. 1. How does the winter season influence your poetry? Do…
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How to: Get your Poetry Published
Expert Poetry Tutor Katrina Naomi’s guide on how to get your poetry published.
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How to: Take Criticism Well with Rebecca Levi
Expert Poetry Tutor Rebecca Levi’s guide on how to take criticism well.
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How to: Feedback, Originality, & Ownership in Poetry Workshops with Matthew Caley (part 1)
Matthew Caley discusses the emotional aspect of receiving feedback.
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How to: Offer Feedback
Expert Poetry Tutor Elizabeth Parker’s guide on how to offer feedback.
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How to: Take Criticism Well with Natalie Whittaker
Expert Poetry Tutor Natalie Whittaker’s guide on receiving criticism constructively!
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How to: Poetry Writing Tips for Beginners
Expert Poetry Tutor Dr Becky Varley-Winter offers priceless pointers for new poets!
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How to: Feedback, Originality & Ownership in Poetry Workshops
Expert Poetry Tutor Natasha Hakimi Zapata unpacks the poetry workshop.
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