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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

Intermediate Poetry Workshop with Natasha Hakimi Zapata [Autumn 2023]

£202.00 *

Tutor: Natasha Hakimi Zapata

Intermediate Poetry Workshop with Natasha Hakimi Zapata [Autumn 2023]

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

Start Date: September 29, 2023 2–4pm
End Date: December 8, 2023 ( 71 Days )
Type: Video

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou [Autumn 2023]

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Tutor: Anthony Anaxagorou

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou [Autumn 2023]

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

Start Date: October 2, 2023 2-4pm
End Date: December 4, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

What Next? with Wayne Holloway-Smith (Advanced) [Autumn 2023]

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Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith

What Next? with Wayne Holloway-Smith (Advanced) [Autumn 2023]

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

Start Date: October 2, 2023 6.45pm
End Date: December 4, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

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Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra

Creative Constraint [Autumn 2023]

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

Start Date: October 2, 2023 6.45pm
End Date: December 4, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

What Now? with Wayne Holloway Smith (Intermediate) [Autumn 2023]

£202.00 *

Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith

What Now? with Wayne Holloway Smith (Intermediate) [Autumn 2023]

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

Start Date: October 3, 2023 6.45-8.45pm
End Date: December 5, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

Philip Gross Seminar 2023: Environmental Concern & Place

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Tutor: Philip Gross

Philip Gross Seminar 2023: Environmental Concern & Place

Intimate monthly seminars with Philip Gross.

Start Date: October 3, 2023 5.30pm
End Date: May 7, 2024 ( 218 Days )
Type: Seminar, Video

£286.00 *

Tutor: Antony Dunn

Antony Dunn Seminars 2023

Intimate monthly seminars with Antony Dunn.

Start Date: October 3, 2023 6.15pm
End Date: May 16, 2024 ( 227 Days )
Type: Seminar, Video

£286.00 *

Tutor: Suzanne Conway

Suzanne Conway Zoom Seminars 2023

Intimate monthly seminars with Suzanne Conway on Zoom.

Start Date: October 4, 2023 7pm
End Date: May 1, 2024 ( 211 Days )
Type: Seminar, Video

Live Wires: Starting to Write [Autumn 2023]

£202.00 *

Tutor: Becky Varley-Winter

Live Wires: Starting to Write [Autumn 2023]

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

Start Date: October 4, 2023 7–9pm
End Date: December 6, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

Rachel Long’s Advanced Workshop with Special Guests [Autumn 2023]

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Tutor: Rachel Long

Rachel Long’s Advanced Workshop with Special Guests [Autumn 2023]

An exciting new advanced workshop group with the much-loved Rachel Long and the benefit of special guest tutors each term.

Start Date: October 4, 2023 2–4pm
End Date: December 6, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron [Autumn 2023]

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Tutor: Mark Waldron

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron [Autumn 2023]

An advanced weekly workshop group with the inimitable Mark Waldron.

Start Date: October 4, 2023 6.45–8.45pm
End Date: December 6, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

Finding the Form; Breaking the Mould [Autumn 2023]

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Tutor: Shazea Quraishi

Finding the Form; Breaking the Mould [Autumn 2023]

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

Start Date: October 4, 2023 6.45–8.45pm
End Date: December 6, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

£122.00 *

Tutor: Sarah Fletcher

'O Soft Embalmer': The Poetry of Sleep

Delve into the obscured world of sleep, as we explore its rich creative possibilities in exciting new work.

Start Date: October 5, 2023 7–9pm
End Date: November 30, 2023 ( 57 Days )
Type: Online, Video

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price [Autumn 2023]

£202.00 *

Tutor: Richard Price

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price [Autumn 2023]

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

Start Date: October 6, 2023 11am-1pm
End Date: December 8, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

£286.00 *

Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith

Wayne Holloway-Smith Seminars 2023

Intimate monthly seminars with Wayne Holloway-Smith.

Start Date: October 7, 2023 11am
End Date: May 4, 2024 ( 211 Days )
Type: Seminar, Video

£286.00 *

Tutor: Greta Stoddart

Greta Stoddart Zoom Seminar 2023

Intimate monthly seminars with Greta Stoddart on Zoom.

Start Date: October 11, 2023 2pm
End Date: May 15, 2024 ( 218 Days )
Type: Seminar, Video

Technique [How to Discover or Disown It]

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Tutor: Matthew Caley

Technique [How to Discover or Disown It]

What training do you do to sustain and maintain yourself as a poet? Explore the essential work of writerly ‘technique’, as we consider new pathways into our writing.

Start Date: October 12, 2023 7–9pm
End Date: December 14, 2023 ( 64 Days )
Type: Online, Video

Unhidden: The Poetry of Ecological & Personal Spaces

£88.00 *

Tutor: romalyn ante

Unhidden: The Poetry of Ecological & Personal Spaces

Explore environmental impermanence and resilience as we produce impactful new work, directly engaged with climate crises.

Start Date: October 14, 2023 2–4.30pm
End Date: October 21, 2023 ( 8 Days )
Type: Online, Video

£286.00 *

Tutor: Shazea Quraishi

Shazea Quraishi Seminar 2023

Intimate monthly seminars with Shazea Quraishi.

Start Date: October 16, 2023 6.30pm
End Date: May 20, 2024 ( 218 Days )
Type: Seminar, Video

Short Controlled Bursts: Poems Inspired by the Movie ALIENS

£88.00 *

Tutor: Chrissy Williams

Short Controlled Bursts: Poems Inspired by the Movie ALIENS

A day of writing new poems, inspired by the movie ALIENS – one of the best films of the 1980s, and one of the best sci-fi movies of all time. We’re in the pipe, five by five…

Start Date: October 28, 2023 10.30am–4.30pm
End Date: October 28, 2023 ( 1 Day )
Type: Online, Video

£286.00 *

Tutor: Eve Grubin

Eve Grubin Seminar 2023

Intimate monthly seminars with Eve Grubin.

Start Date: November 3, 2023 9.30am
End Date: June 7, 2024 ( 218 Days )
Type: Seminar, Video

Our New Critical Friend: Writing Poetry Alongside AI

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Tutor: Kat Dixon

Our New Critical Friend: Writing Poetry Alongside AI

Play with artificial intelligence to deepen your creative practice.

Start Date: November 4, 2023 10.30am–1pm
End Date: November 18, 2023 ( 15 Days )
Type: Online, Video

Art & Advocacy: Poetry as Testimony & Social Change

£88.00 *

Tutor: Abbi Parcell

Art & Advocacy: Poetry as Testimony & Social Change

Learn how to fuse art and advocacy to create lasting testimonies and use your poetry as a powerful tool for collective action.

Start Date: November 25, 2023 10.30am–1pm
End Date: December 2, 2023 ( 8 Days )
Type: Online, Video

Yippee-Ki-Yay: Poems Inspired by DIE HARD

£88.00 *

Tutor: Chrissy Williams

Yippee-Ki-Yay: Poems Inspired by DIE HARD

Join us for a day in December writing new poems inspired by the classic Christmas movie DIE HARD. Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs…

Start Date: December 16, 2023 10.30am–4.30pm
End Date: December 16, 2023 ( 1 Day )
Type: Online, 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

Intermediate Poetry Workshop with Natasha Hakimi Zapata [Autumn 2023]

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou [Autumn 2023]

What Next? with Wayne Holloway-Smith (Advanced) [Autumn 2023]

Creative Constraint [Autumn 2023]

What Now? with Wayne Holloway Smith (Intermediate) [Autumn 2023]

Philip Gross Seminar 2023: Environmental Concern & Place

Antony Dunn Seminars 2023

Suzanne Conway Zoom Seminars 2023

Live Wires: Starting to Write [Autumn 2023]

Rachel Long’s Advanced Workshop with Special Guests [Autumn 2023]

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron [Autumn 2023]

Finding the Form; Breaking the Mould [Autumn 2023]

'O Soft Embalmer': The Poetry of Sleep

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price [Autumn 2023]

Wayne Holloway-Smith Seminars 2023

Greta Stoddart Zoom Seminar 2023

Technique [How to Discover or Disown It]

Unhidden: The Poetry of Ecological & Personal Spaces

Shazea Quraishi Seminar 2023

Short Controlled Bursts: Poems Inspired by the Movie ALIENS

Eve Grubin Seminar 2023

Our New Critical Friend: Writing Poetry Alongside AI

Art & Advocacy: Poetry as Testimony & Social Change

Yippee-Ki-Yay: Poems Inspired by DIE HARD

HOW VIDEO WORKS

WHAT WILL I LEARN?

COURSE FORMATS

FAQ

How many courses can I take?

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