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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

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

Creative Constraint (Summer 2022) Sold Out! Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra

Creative Constraint (Summer 2022)

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

Start Date: May 11, 2022 6.45pm
End Date: July 20, 2022 ( 71 Days )
Type: Video
Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron (Summer 2022) Sold Out! Tutor: Mark Waldron

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron (Summer 2022)

An advanced weekly workshop group with the inimitable Mark Waldron.

Start Date: May 11, 2022 6.45pm
End Date: July 20, 2022 ( 71 Days )
Type: Video
Live Wires: Starting to Write (Summer 2022) £195.00 * Tutor: Becky Varley-Winter

Live Wires: Starting to Write (Summer 2022)

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

Start Date: May 12, 2022 6.45pm
End Date: July 14, 2022 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video
Intermediate Poetry Workshop with Tim Dooley (Summer 2022) £195.00 * Tutor: Tim Dooley

Intermediate Poetry Workshop with Tim Dooley (Summer 2022)

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

Start Date: May 13, 2022 2pm
End Date: July 15, 2022 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video
What Next? (Summer 2022) Sold Out! Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith

What Next? (Summer 2022)

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

Start Date: May 16, 2022 6.45pm
End Date: July 18, 2022 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video
The Poet’s Toolkit (Summer 2022) £195.00 * Tutor: Shazea Quraishi

The Poet’s Toolkit (Summer 2022)

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

Start Date: May 16, 2022 6.45pm
End Date: July 18, 2022 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video
Advanced Poetry Workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou (Summer 2022) £195.00 * Tutor: Anthony Anaxagorou

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou (Summer 2022)

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

Start Date: May 16, 2022 2pm
End Date: July 18, 2022 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video
What Now? (Intermediate, Summer 2022) £195.00 * Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith

What Now? (Intermediate, Summer 2022)

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

Start Date: May 17, 2022 6.45pm
End Date: July 19, 2022 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video
Sources of Poetic Language: Imagination, Wonder, & the Everyday Sold Out! Tutor: Carmen Bugan

Sources of Poetic Language: Imagination, Wonder, & the Everyday

Join us to explore language from all areas of human life as sources for innovative poetry.

Start Date: May 17, 2022 7.00 p.m.
End Date: July 19, 2022 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video
Ancestral Offerings: Myths in Mundane Life Sold Out! Tutor: romalyn ante

Ancestral Offerings: Myths in Mundane Life

Use personal objects, everyday items, and your own family legends to rewrite myths into your poetry.

Start Date: May 19, 2022
End Date: July 14, 2022 ( 57 Days )
Type: Video
Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Summer 2022) Sold Out! Tutor: Richard Price

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Summer 2022)

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

Start Date: May 20, 2022 11am
End Date: July 22, 2022 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video
Poetry Surgery with Rebecca Watts Sold Out! Tutor: Rebecca Watts

Poetry Surgery with Rebecca Watts

In-depth 1-2-1 discussion on your poetry with Rebecca Watts.

Start Date: June 4, 2022 10.30 a.m.
Type: Video
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
Dreaming Awake on the Page: A Surreal Narrative Workshop £84.00 * Tutor: Vik Shirley

Dreaming Awake on the Page: A Surreal Narrative Workshop

Dive headfirst into Surrealism and learn to push your writing into strange new places.

Start Date: July 23, 2022 10.30am
End Date: July 23, 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.

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