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Fully digital face-to-face courses, held online and accessible from around the world

Face-to-face teaching is now available remotely through our Zoom-based courses

On our video courses, a group of students meet on Zoom on a regular basis with their tutor to read their own work, discuss poetry, and – session by session – develop new skills and confidence as poet. We offer a breadth of approach to learning poetry, with some courses focusing on form and technique, whilst others look to provide inspiration for generating new writing or offer close readings of certain poets or movements.

The longest courses we offer stretch over three terms (general, covering a wide variety of skills and subjects) and the shortest courses we offer are one-day workshops (specific, looking at specialist subjects and techniques).

All our Video Courses

Antony Dunn Seminars – Summer Sessions 2022

£132.50 *

Tutor: Antony Dunn

Antony Dunn Seminars – Summer Sessions 2022

Extra Summer sessions of Antony Dunn's intimate monthly seminars.

Start Date: June 7, 2022 6.15pm
End Date: September 15, 2022 ( 101 Days )
Type: Seminar, Video

£202.00 *

Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra

Creative Constraint (Autumn 2022)

Mix up your writing, and learn new skills and techniques with Jacqueline Saphra.

Start Date: September 26, 2022 6.45pm
End Date: December 5, 2022 ( 71 Days )
Type: Video

£146.00 *

Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra

Form Laboratory

Join us as we invent and trial brand new poetic forms, all under the expert formal eye of Jacqueline Saphra.

Start Date: September 28, 2022 7pm
End Date: December 7, 2022 ( 71 Days )
Type: Video

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Autumn 2022)

£202.00 *

Tutor: Richard Price

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Autumn 2022)

Join this group for rigorous discussion of your writing with acclaimed poet Richard Price.

Start Date: September 30, 2022 11am
End Date: December 2, 2022 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

Intermediate Poetry Workshop with Tim Dooley (Autumn 2022)

£202.00 *

Tutor: Tim Dooley

Intermediate Poetry Workshop with Tim Dooley (Autumn 2022)

Our weekly workshop for intermediate poets looking to develop their work.

Start Date: September 30, 2022 2pm
End Date: December 9, 2022 ( 71 Days )
Type: Video

£202.00 *

Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith

What Next? (Advanced) (Autumn 2022)

Challenge yourself, elevate your writing, and take the next steps in your poetry career.

Start Date: October 3, 2022 6.45pm
End Date: December 5, 2022 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou (Autumn 2022)

£202.00 *

Tutor: Anthony Anaxagorou

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou (Autumn 2022)

Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou.

Start Date: October 3, 2022 2pm
End Date: December 5, 2022 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

£202.00 *

Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith

What Now? (Intermediate) (Autumn 2022)

Bring your writing to the next level and explore contemporary poetry’s cutting-edge.

Start Date: October 4, 2022 6.45pm
End Date: December 6, 2022 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron (Autumn 2022)

£202.00 *

Tutor: Mark Waldron

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron (Autumn 2022)

An advanced weekly workshop group with the inimitable Mark Waldron.

Start Date: October 5, 2022 6.45pm
End Date: December 7, 2022 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

£122.00 *

Tutor: Janani Ambikapathy & Gizem Okulu

Foreign Objects: Poetry in Translation

Explore innovative and exciting works of translation, as inspiration for innovating your own poetics.

Start Date: October 5, 2022 7.00 p.m.
End Date: November 30, 2022 ( 57 Days )
Type: Video

£122.00 *

Tutor: Sarah Fletcher

The Poetry of Pain

Create your personal pain-language and find healing through poetry.

Start Date: October 6, 2022 7pm
End Date: December 1, 2022 ( 57 Days )
Type: Video

Finding the Form; Breaking the Mould (Autumn 2022)

£202.00 *

Tutor: Shazea Quraishi

Finding the Form; Breaking the Mould (Autumn 2022)

Hone your craft, explore poetry’s inner workings, and look at techniques to help your poems achieve lift-off.

Start Date: October 6, 2022 6.45pm
End Date: December 8, 2022 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

Live Wires: Starting to Write (Autumn 2022)

£202.00 *

Tutor: Becky Varley-Winter

Live Wires: Starting to Write (Autumn 2022)

Spark your creativity and take your first steps into the world of poetry!

Start Date: October 12, 2022 7.00 p.m.
End Date: December 14, 2022 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

Turning to Face the Ultimate: Poetry & the Sacred

£122.00 *

Tutor: Matti Spence

Turning to Face the Ultimate: Poetry & the Sacred

Join us, poet-pilgrims, as we journey through poetry’s gateway into the Sacred.

Start Date: October 13, 2022 7.00 p.m.
End Date: December 8, 2022 ( 57 Days )
Type: Video

Gods, Monsters, & Faery Tales: Writing Fantastic Poems

£88.00 *

Tutor: Serge Neptune

Gods, Monsters, & Faery Tales: Writing Fantastic Poems

Unshackle your inner pantheon, unleash the beasties in your bestiary, and become the demonologist you always knew you wanted to be.

Start Date: October 15, 2022 2pm
End Date: October 29, 2022 ( 15 Days )
Type: Video

Playing Poetry: An Introduction to Game Poetry & Poetry Games

£122.00 *

Tutor: Nick Murray

Playing Poetry: An Introduction to Game Poetry & Poetry Games

A playful exploration of how games and poetry can interact, and how interactivity can bring a new aspect to reading poetic text.

Start Date: October 23, 2022 2pm
End Date: December 4, 2022 ( 43 Days )
Type: In-person, Video

The Grotesque in Poetry: Disgust Mixed with Laughter

£88.00 *

Tutor: Vik Shirley

The Grotesque in Poetry: Disgust Mixed with Laughter

Explore the dark and grotesque as a means to represent the challenging times we find ourselves in.

Start Date: November 5, 2022 10.30am
End Date: November 5, 2022 ( 1 Day )
Type: Video

The Return: A Twin Peaks Season 3 Workshop

£88.00 *

Tutor: Chrissy Williams

The Return: A Twin Peaks Season 3 Workshop

Drink some damn fine coffee and create new poems in response to the latest season of Twin Peaks.

Start Date: November 19, 2022 10.30am
End Date: November 19, 2022 ( 1 Day )
Type: Video

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HOW VIDEO WORKS

Tutor and students meet on Zoom for an online Poetry School course session or workshop and the meetings are friendly and relatively informal.

In each session, you might be given Exercises (specific writing tasks to inspire your own poems or ideas) or Feedback (comments on your work by tutors and / or other students); you might be Reading (close attention to published poems, looking for examples of technique, style, theme or form), Writing (working towards creating new poems throughout the duration of the course or workshop) or a combination of all these. Some courses will include tasks for you to complete between the sessions.

Our video courses are designed to suit all levels of experience: some activities are open to all, and others are structured with beginner, intermediate or advanced poets specifically in mind. Similarly, our activities aim to offer a breadth of approach to learning poetry, with some focusing on form and technique, whilst others look to provide inspiration for your writing.

WHAT WILL I LEARN?

Content will vary course to course, but on all our video courses you can expect the following:

reading, writing and thinking about poetry in different ways
exposure to new writers, voices, forms and styles
the confidence to write more and devote more time to writing
generating new work
discovery of new areas and subjects for research
better understanding of how to make choices (length, theme, tone, etc)
enhanced critical skills
practical advice on further development

We pride ourselves on the standard of our teaching and the poetry produced on every one of our courses. Many of our students have gone on to successfully submit their course work for publication in magazines and journals, and had success in competitions. But don’t take it from us: read some of our many student testimonials.

COURSE FORMATS

Generally speaking we offer 3 main types of video courses:

LONG COURSES are more than 10 weeks and run over several terms. All our long courses start in the Autumn, but can be joined mid-way (subject to availability). Long courses are quite general and will encompass a large variety of ideas and techniques suitable for particular skill levels.

SHORT COURSES are commonly 10 weeks or less, once a term, with regular sessions running weekly or fortnightly. Short courses tend to focus on a particular subject, theme, form or technical aspect of poetry, often open to all levels.

WORKSHOPS are weekend, one or half day sessions.

If you’re unsure which class, level, or style of course might be best for you, you can contact our administration team on [email protected] for help with any course queries you might have.

The Poetry School

Video Courses

Fully digital face-to-face courses, held online and accessible from around the world

Face-to-face teaching is now available remotely through our Zoom-based courses

All our Video Courses

Antony Dunn Seminars – Summer Sessions 2022

Creative Constraint (Autumn 2022)

Form Laboratory

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Autumn 2022)

Intermediate Poetry Workshop with Tim Dooley (Autumn 2022)

What Next? (Advanced) (Autumn 2022)

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou (Autumn 2022)

What Now? (Intermediate) (Autumn 2022)

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron (Autumn 2022)

Foreign Objects: Poetry in Translation

The Poetry of Pain

Finding the Form; Breaking the Mould (Autumn 2022)

Live Wires: Starting to Write (Autumn 2022)

Turning to Face the Ultimate: Poetry & the Sacred

Gods, Monsters, & Faery Tales: Writing Fantastic Poems

Playing Poetry: An Introduction to Game Poetry & Poetry Games

The Grotesque in Poetry: Disgust Mixed with Laughter

The Return: A Twin Peaks Season 3 Workshop

HOW VIDEO WORKS

WHAT WILL I LEARN?

COURSE FORMATS

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