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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

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

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron

£202.00 *

Tutor: Mark Waldron

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron

An advanced weekly workshop group with the inimitable Mark Waldron.

Start Date: May 10, 2023 6.45pm
End Date: July 12, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

£202.00 *

Tutor: Shazea Quraishi

Finding the Form; Breaking the Mould

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

Start Date: May 11, 2023 6.45pm
End Date: July 13, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

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Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra

Creative Constraint

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

Start Date: May 15, 2023 6.45pm
End Date: July 17, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou

£202.00 *

Tutor: Anthony Anaxagorou

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou

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

Start Date: May 15, 2023 2pm
End Date: July 17, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

What Next? with Wayne Holloway-Smith (Advanced)

£202.00 *

Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith

What Next? with Wayne Holloway-Smith (Advanced)

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

Start Date: May 15, 2023 6.45pm
End Date: July 17, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

£202.00 *

Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith

What Now? (Intermediate)

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

Start Date: May 16, 2023 6.45pm
End Date: July 18, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

£202.00 *

Tutor: Becky Varley-Winter

Live Wires: Starting to Write

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

Start Date: May 17, 2023 7pm
End Date: July 19, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

Intermediate Poetry Workshop with Natasha Hakimi Zapata

£202.00 *

Tutor: Natasha Hakimi Zapata

Intermediate Poetry Workshop with Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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

Start Date: May 19, 2023 2pm
End Date: July 21, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price

£202.00 *

Tutor: Richard Price

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price

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

Start Date: May 19, 2023 11am
End Date: July 21, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

‘Tantalising Vagueness’: Intimacy & Distance in Poetry

£122.00 *

Tutor: Suzanne Conway

‘Tantalising Vagueness’: Intimacy & Distance in Poetry

Join us as we look for the line between intimacy and oversharing, evasion and distance in your work.

Start Date: May 24, 2023 7pm
End Date: July 19, 2023 ( 57 Days )
Type: Video

£88.00 *

Tutor: Sarala Estruch

Poetry & Migration

Explore the important topic of migration, learning how poetry can be the perfect vehicle to tell stories of movement, settlement, and belonging.

Start Date: June 17, 2023 10am – 12.30pm
End Date: June 24, 2023 ( 8 Days )
Type: Video

£104.00

Tutor: romalyn ante

Poetry Surgery with Romalyn Ante

In-depth 1-2-1 discussion on your poetry with poet and editor Romalyn Ante.

Start Date: June 27, 2023 10.30am–4.45pm
End Date: June 27, 2023 ( 1 Day )
Type: Video

£88.00 *

Tutor: Elizabeth Parker

Playing With Fire

Take up a torch and join us as we explore the elemental power of fire as destroyer, life-giver, and re-inventor in your writing.

Start Date: July 1, 2023 10.30am – 1pm
End Date: July 8, 2023 ( 8 Days )
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.

FAQ

How many courses can I take?

To ensure the best experience, we recommend taking no more than two courses per term. If you are interested in signing up to more, please email us at [email protected] to discuss the different course schedules.

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

Writing After the Films of Stanley Kubrick (Spring 2023)

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron

Finding the Form; Breaking the Mould

Creative Constraint

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou

What Next? with Wayne Holloway-Smith (Advanced)

What Now? (Intermediate)

Live Wires: Starting to Write

Intermediate Poetry Workshop with Natasha Hakimi Zapata

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price

‘Tantalising Vagueness’: Intimacy & Distance in Poetry

Poetry & Migration

Poetry Surgery with Romalyn Ante

Playing With Fire

HOW VIDEO WORKS

WHAT WILL I LEARN?

COURSE FORMATS

FAQ

How many courses can I take?

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