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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

£275.00 *

Tutor: Shazea Quraishi

Shazea Quraishi Seminars 2022

Intimate monthly seminars with Shazea Quraishi.

Start Date: November 14, 2022 6.30pm
End Date: June 12, 2023 ( 211 Days )
Type: Seminar, Video

Finding the Form; Breaking the Mould (Spring 2023)

£202.00 *

Tutor: Shazea Quraishi

Finding the Form; Breaking the Mould (Spring 2023)

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

Start Date: January 19, 2023 6.45pm
End Date: March 23, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

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Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra

Creative Constraint (Spring 2023)

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

Start Date: January 23, 2023 6.45pm
End Date: March 27, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

Writing After the Films of Stanley Kubrick (Spring 2023)

£202.00 *

Tutor: Chrissy Williams

Writing After the Films of Stanley Kubrick (Spring 2023)

Explore the unconventional in this workshop inspired by one of cinema’s most-influential directors.

Start Date: January 23, 2023 7pm
End Date: March 27, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

£202.00 *

Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith

What Next? (Advanced) (Spring 2023)

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

Start Date: January 23, 2023 6.45pm
End Date: March 27, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou (Spring 2023)

£202.00 *

Tutor: Anthony Anaxagorou

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou (Spring 2023)

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

Start Date: January 23, 2023 2pm
End Date: April 3, 2023 ( 71 Days )
Type: Video

£202.00 *

Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith

What Now? (Intermediate) (Spring 2023)

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

Start Date: January 24, 2023 6.45pm
End Date: March 28, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron (Spring 2023)

£202.00 *

Tutor: Mark Waldron

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron (Spring 2023)

An advanced weekly workshop group with the inimitable Mark Waldron.

Start Date: January 25, 2023 6.45pm
End Date: March 29, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

Live Wires: Starting to Write (Spring 2023)

£202.00 *

Tutor: Meryl Pugh

Live Wires: Starting to Write (Spring 2023)

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

Start Date: January 25, 2023 7.00 p.m.
End Date: March 29, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

£122.00 *

Tutor: Ben See and Guest Tutors

Where Words Meet Music (Spring 2023)

Poetry and song combine in this 5-session course shaped by exciting voices from the music industry.

Start Date: January 25, 2023 7–9pm
End Date: February 22, 2023 ( 29 Days )
Type: Video

Vows: How to Write Poems for Weddings (Spring 2023)

£122.00 *

Tutor: Lewis Buxton

Vows: How to Write Poems for Weddings (Spring 2023)

All you need is love – and this course exploring different approaches from Shakespearean sonnets to Richard Curtis scripts.

Start Date: January 26, 2023 7–9pm
End Date: March 23, 2023 ( 57 Days )
Type: Video

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Spring 2023)

£202.00 *

Tutor: Richard Price

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Spring 2023)

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

Start Date: January 27, 2023 11am
End Date: March 31, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

Poetry that Burns Through the Page (Spring 2023)

£122.00 *

Tutor: Rebecca Levi

Poetry that Burns Through the Page (Spring 2023)

Spark new ideas and develop the tools to transform your poetry into works of art.

Start Date: February 1, 2023 7–9pm
End Date: March 29, 2023 ( 57 Days )
Type: Video

Being Poet Puppeteer: Writing Page-Turning Narrative Sequence (Spring 2023)

£122.00 *

Tutor: Elaine Baker

Being Poet Puppeteer: Writing Page-Turning Narrative Sequence (Spring 2023)

Pull the strings on your own narrative sequence as we read, and revel in, contemporary poets innovating the form.

Start Date: February 2, 2023 7–9pm
End Date: March 30, 2023 ( 57 Days )
Type: Video

Intermediate Poetry Workshop with Natasha Hakimi Zapata (Spring 2023)

£202.00 *

Tutor: Natasha Hakimi Zapata

Intermediate Poetry Workshop with Natasha Hakimi Zapata (Spring 2023)

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

Start Date: February 3, 2023 2pm
End Date: April 7, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

Body-ody-ody-ody – A Study (Spring 2023)

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Tutor: Rachel Long

Body-ody-ody-ody – A Study (Spring 2023)

Giving your poetic body a physical presence.

Start Date: February 8, 2023 6.30-8.00 pm
End Date: February 22, 2023 ( 15 Days )
Type: Video

Poetry Surgery with Meryl Pugh (Spring 2023)

£104.00

Tutor: Meryl Pugh

Poetry Surgery with Meryl Pugh (Spring 2023)

In-depth 1-2-1 discussion on your poetry with Meryl Pugh.

Start Date: March 6, 2023 10.30am–4.45pm
End Date: March 6, 2023 ( 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

Shazea Quraishi Seminars 2022

Finding the Form; Breaking the Mould (Spring 2023)

Creative Constraint (Spring 2023)

Writing After the Films of Stanley Kubrick (Spring 2023)

What Next? (Advanced) (Spring 2023)

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou (Spring 2023)

What Now? (Intermediate) (Spring 2023)

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron (Spring 2023)

Live Wires: Starting to Write (Spring 2023)

Where Words Meet Music (Spring 2023)

Vows: How to Write Poems for Weddings (Spring 2023)

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Spring 2023)

Poetry that Burns Through the Page (Spring 2023)

Being Poet Puppeteer: Writing Page-Turning Narrative Sequence (Spring 2023)

Intermediate Poetry Workshop with Natasha Hakimi Zapata (Spring 2023)

Body-ody-ody-ody – A Study (Spring 2023)

Poetry Surgery with Meryl Pugh (Spring 2023)

HOW VIDEO WORKS

WHAT WILL I LEARN?

COURSE FORMATS

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