Courses
Winter Muse: People & Places
Explore the art of capturing people, places, and character in our Winter Muse: People & Places courses. This Winter Muse series is ideal for for poets aiming to build writing community and explore place and people-centred poetry. You’ll refine your technique, deepen your ability to evoke character, and create striking poems that linger in readers’…
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Push Your Boundaries: Experimental & Interdisciplinary Writing
Take your poetry beyond the page this winter with our Push Your Boundaries: Experimental & Interdisciplinary Writing courses. Designed for adventurous writers, these workshops offer a chance to explore the future of poetry through art, sound, and experimentation. If you’re eager to push the limits of your practice, these courses are for you. Interdisciplinary &…
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Winter Inspiration: Seasons of Verse
Embrace the shifting seasons in your poetry with our Winter Inspiration: Seasons of Verse courses. Designed to bring nature, myth, and introspection to your writing, these workshops are perfect for cozy autumn and winter evenings, where poets can dive into seasonal themes, environmental reflection, and reach the global through the personal. Each of these courses…
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Build Your Writing Community: The Art of the Workshop
This winter, join a warm, supportive space for poets with workshops designed for beginner, intermediate or advanced poets. This workshop series helps you refine your craft, find your authentic voice, and connect with other poets in a welcoming, collaborative environment.
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Ignite Change Through Poetry: Spring Workshops for the Next Generation of Writers
In a world grappling with crises from east to west, the power of the written word becomes more urgent than ever.
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Poetry Craft: My Favourite Poetic Device with Simon Barraclough
Simon Barraclough discusses his favourite poetic device.
Simon Barraclough
Write for the Planet: Nature & Climate Change Poetics
COP29 begins & The Guardian highlights the effectiveness of writing in response to the climate crisis: see our upcoming nature & climate change poetry courses!
Jasmine Ward
How to: Offer Feedback
Expert Poetry Tutor Elizabeth Parker’s guide on how to offer feedback.
Elizabeth Parker
Spring 2025 – Quick Course Guide
Poetry School Quick Course Guide Spring 2025
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How to: Taking Criticism Well
Expert Poetry Tutor Natalie Whittaker’s guide on receiving criticism constructively!
Natalie Whittaker
‘Whose Story is it Anyway?’ Exploring Unreliable Narration with Elspeth Wilson
Expert Poetry Tutor Elspeth Wilson discusses narration and masking in your poetry
Elspeth Wilson
Autumn 2024 – Quick Course Guide
Our Autumn Term is now live! We have a whole host of brilliant tutors and poetry courses ready for you to pick from and as they tend to sell out really fast we’ve made this Quick Course Guide to help quickly guide you to the right course! Online Courses INTERNATIONAL Online courses without Live Chats,…
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‘Street Sauntering’ by Suzannah V. Evans — a blog on Flâneur-ing About: The Poetry of Streets
Suzannah V. Evans explains how her new course: ‘Flâneur-ing About: The Poetry of Streets‘ will help you write poetry as you meander through cities. I have an urge to begin this blog mid-sentence, perhaps with the word ‘So’ or ‘Alors’, its French equivalent, because then I could imagine the sentence appearing suddenly out from behind…
SuzannahVE
‘Tender Towards Innocence’ by Carmen Bugan: a blog on Innocence in a Troubled World
Carmen Bugan explains how her new course: ‘A Quest for Innocence in a Troubled World‘ will help you write poetry that faces up to this worrisome time. I borrowed the title of this piece from Seamus Heaney, who has said about Czeslaw Milosz: Tender towards innocence, tough-minded when faced with brutality and injustice, Milosz could…
Carmen Bugan
What Is Revolutionary Poetics? by Mischa Foster Poole
Here is Mischa Foster Poole talking about his course Revolutionary Poetics: Writing Against the Grain; Alternate art; busting open the poem to embrace new and experimental forms. (5) This is because the tools that we have to hand are provided by the hegemonic ideology, the mode of production that seeks to ideologically reproduce itself through the…
Mischa Foster Poole
‘He Do The Police In Different Voices’ by Stephen Komarnyckyj: a blog on Alternative Histories
Stephen Komarnyckyj explains how his new course: Writing Alternative Poetic Histories will help you write poetry that faces up to this difficult moment in history I began to think about the role of poetry during what might be a global war during a Skype call with my cousin in 2022. He was in his cellar…
Steve Komarnyckyj
What Is Poetic Theft? with Louis Glazzard
Here is Louis Glazzard talking about his course Poetic Theft: From Inspiration to Transformation; A transformative workshop series about harnessing your inspirations to expand your writing. In Pursuit of Originality… Everything I’ve ever created has been inspired by something. Well, almost everything. When I first started writing I was obsessed with being original. In fact,…
Louis Glazzard
Wallpaper: Poems & Houses with Laura Scott
Here’s Laura Scott on her upcoming course, Poems & Houses; House & home; poetics of our storied buildings. My house and the ghost of a doorway In my house there’s the ghost of a doorway. I can’t remember when I first noticed it, but I do remember the gentle shock of running my hand over…
Laura Scott
Science & Poetry: The Laboratory of Verse! with Mario Petrucci
Here’s Mario Petrucci on his upcoming course, Science & Poetry: The Laboratory of Verse; Fissile material; experiment with scientific stanzas and supercharge your poetic skills. Science as a metaphor As someone versed in quantum physics, I’m fascinated by metaphor, the way everything (as in the quantum world) can become everything else. That’s the engine-room of my…
Mario Petrucci
New Poets Collective – Quick Course Guide
In addition to our Summer programme this year, we are running a series of exciting courses tutored by fresh voices from The New Poets Collective. Have a look at the below quick guide to this fantastic line up and make sure you book your place quickly to avoid disappointment! In-Person Courses Poems as Constellations with…
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Dear Rwanda: Creating a Poetry Souvenir
Here’s Isy Mead on her upcoming course, Poetry Souvenirs, keepsakes from over there; capturing the foreign without the fake. Rwanda, or ‘The Land of a Thousand Hills’, has a beauty beyond imagining. It is characterised by ubiquitous hillside terraces and spreading banana groves, by stunning, bright-green tea-fields to the south, and green and gold safari…
Isabella Mead
Summer 2024 – Quick Course Guide
Our Summer Term is now live and we’ve got a whole host of brilliant tutors and poetry courses lined up, so be sure to book promptly to avoid disappointment. Below is our handy Quick Course Guide, where you’ll find everything you’ll need to know. Online Courses INTERACTIVE Our classic 10-week online poetry courses with Live…
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Wilder Swimming – Blog by Penny Boxall on ‘Tales from the Wetlands’
A blog by Penny Boxall on her upcoming course ‘Tales from the Wetlands Studio’ The first time I went to Estonia, I was surprised at the extent to which tales and folklore are woven into the landscape there. Friends told me you must not sit on the sandy beach until the first thunderstorm of the…
Penny Boxall
The Freedom of Writing
Michal Kamil Piotrowski on his course: ‘A Kaleidoscope of Forms: Innovative Poetry in the 21st Century’ Hello! In this post I will write a bit about experimental poetry. But first – what makes poetry experimental or innovative? In my opinion, the most important aspect is that, unlike traditional poetry, it concentrates on the future, it…
Michał Kamil Piotrowski
Rebecca Levi on ‘The stars of Chile for you (Las estrellas de Chile para ti)’: Transreading 5 Chilean Women Poets
Here’s Rebecca Levi on her upcoming course, ‘The stars of Chile for you (Las estrellas de Chile para ti)’: Transreading 5 Chilean Women Poets‘ December, 2018. Santiago, Chile. My friend’s kitchen. It was an old house with an inner courtyard, home to three, sometimes five women, plus a cat (female, obviously). A soft house, as if…
Rebecca Levi