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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

£265.00 *

Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith

Wayne Holloway-Smith Seminar 2021

Intimate monthly seminars with Wayne Holloway-Smith.

Start Date: October 2, 2021 11am
End Date: May 15, 2021
Type: Seminar, Video

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Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith

What Next? (Autumn 2021)

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

Start Date: October 4, 2021 6.45pm
End Date: December 6, 2021 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou (Autumn 2021)

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Tutor: Anthony Anaxagorou

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou (Autumn 2021)

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

Start Date: October 4, 2021 2pm
End Date: December 6, 2021 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

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Tutor: Shazea Quraishi

The Poet’s Toolkit (Autumn 2021)

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

Start Date: October 4, 2021 6.45pm
End Date: December 13, 2021 ( 71 Days )
Type: Video

£195.00 *

Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith

What Now? (Intermediate, Autumn 2021)

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

Start Date: October 5, 2021 6.45pm
End Date: December 7, 2021 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

Philip Gross Seminar 2021: Writing Alongside, Becoming Ourselves

£265.00 *

Tutor: Philip Gross

Philip Gross Seminar 2021: Writing Alongside, Becoming Ourselves

Intimate monthly seminars with Philip Gross.

Start Date: October 5, 2021 5.30pm
End Date: May 3, 2022 ( 211 Days )
Type: Seminar, Video

£265.00 *

Tutor: Antony Dunn

Antony Dunn Seminars 2021

Intimate monthly seminars with Antony Dunn.

Start Date: October 5, 2021 6.15pm
End Date: May 12, 2022 ( 220 Days )
Type: Seminar, Video

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Tutor: Greta Stoddart

Greta Stoddart Zoom Seminar 2021

Intimate monthly seminars with Greta Stoddart on Zoom.

Start Date: October 6, 2021 1 & 2pm
End Date: May 4, 2022 ( 211 Days )
Type: Seminar, Video

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Tutor: Alice Kavounas

Alice Kavounas Seminar 2021

In-depth monthly seminars with Alice Kavounas.

Start Date: October 6, 2021 10.30am
End Date: May 4, 2022 ( 211 Days )
Type: Seminar, Video

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Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra

Creative Constraint (Autumn 2021)

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

Start Date: October 6, 2021 6.45pm
End Date: December 8, 2021 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron (Autumn 2021)

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Tutor: Mark Waldron

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron (Autumn 2021)

Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced course with Mark Waldron.

Start Date: October 6, 2021 6.45pm
End Date: December 8, 2021 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

Live Wires: Starting to Write (Autumn 2021)

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Tutor: Becky Varley-Winter

Live Wires: Starting to Write (Autumn 2021)

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

Start Date: October 7, 2021 6.45pm
End Date: December 9, 2021 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

Tension, Tenderness, & Truth: Reading Elaine Feinstein

£118.00 *

Tutor: Adam Feinstein

Tension, Tenderness, & Truth: Reading Elaine Feinstein

Explore the work of renowned poet Elaine Feinstein, under the expert guide of poet, critic, and her son, Adam Feinstein!

Start Date: October 7, 2021 7pm
End Date: December 2, 2021 ( 57 Days )
Type: Video

Intermediate Poetry Workshop with Tim Dooley (Autumn 2021)

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Tutor: Tim Dooley

Intermediate Poetry Workshop with Tim Dooley (Autumn 2021)

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

Start Date: October 8, 2021 2pm
End Date: December 17, 2021 ( 71 Days )
Type: Video

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Autumn 2021)

£195.00 *

Tutor: Richard Price

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Autumn 2021)

Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced workshop with Richard Price.

Start Date: October 8, 2021 11am
End Date: December 17, 2021 ( 71 Days )
Type: Video

£170.00 *

Tutor: Harry Man

The Lyric AI: Poetry & Code

Hack into old habits and discover new languages and realities in this 101 on writing poetry online.

Start Date: October 9, 2021 10.30am
End Date: October 24, 2021 ( 16 Days )
Type: Video

£195.00 *

Tutor: Chrissy Williams

Writing After David Lynch

A week-by-week exploration of Lynch’s films as a source of poetic inspiration.

Start Date: October 12, 2021 7pm
End Date: December 14, 2021 ( 64 Days )
Type: Video

£265.00 *

Tutor: Tamar Yoseloff

Tamar Yoseloff Seminars 2021

Intimate monthly seminars with Tamar Yoseloff.

Start Date: October 13, 2021 1, 6.15, & 6.30pm
End Date: June 15, 2022 ( 246 Days )
Type: Seminar, Video

The Poetics of Reticence: A Reading & Writing Workshop

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Tutor: Eve Grubin

The Poetics of Reticence: A Reading & Writing Workshop

Investigate the power of blank space in poetry.

Start Date: October 14, 2021 7pm
End Date: December 9, 2021 ( 57 Days )
Type: Video

£265.00 *

Tutor: Shazea Quraishi

Shazea Quraishi Seminars 2021

Intimate monthly seminars with Shazea Quraishi.

Start Date: October 14, 2021 6.30pm
End Date: May 19, 2022 ( 218 Days )
Type: Seminar, Video

The Language of Recovery: Poems of Hope & Healing

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Tutor: Carmen Bugan

The Language of Recovery: Poems of Hope & Healing

Explore poems of healing, recovery, and hope as we emerge into a changed world.

Start Date: October 16, 2021 2.30pm
End Date: October 30, 2021 ( 15 Days )
Type: Video

£265.00 *

Tutor: Kathryn Simmonds

Kathryn Simmonds Seminar 2021

Intimate monthly seminars with Kathryn Simmonds.

Start Date: October 18, 2021 10.00am
End Date: May 16, 2022 ( 211 Days )
Type: Seminar, Video

£265.00 *

Tutor: Jacqui Rowe

Jacqui Rowe Seminar 2021

Intimate monthly seminars with Jacqui Rowe.

Start Date: October 19, 2021 6.30pm
End Date: May 17, 2022 ( 211 Days )
Type: Seminar, Video

£265.00 *

Tutor: Phoebe Power

Phoebe Power Seminar 2021

Intimate monthly seminars with Phoebe Power.

Start Date: October 19, 2021 6.30pm
End Date: May 17, 2022 ( 211 Days )
Type: Seminar, Video

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Tutor: Fiona Sampson

Poetry Surgery with Fiona Sampson

In-depth 1-2-1 discussion on your poetry with Fiona Sampson.

Start Date: October 21, 2021 10.30am
End Date: October 21, 2021 ( 1 Day )
Type: Video

£84.00 *

Comedy for Poets!

Put some comedy into your poetry with award-winning comedian and poet Angie Belcher.

Start Date: October 23, 2021 2pm
End Date: October 30, 2021 ( 8 Days )
Type: Video

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Tutor: Katrina Naomi

Rewilding Ecopoetry

Take an inclusive trip into Ecopoetry to explore the many different ways of writing the environment.

Start Date: November 13, 2021 10.30am
End Date: November 13, 2021 ( 1 Day )
Type: Video

Experiments in Transatlantic Translation

£84.00 *

Tutor: Zoe Skoulding

Experiments in Transatlantic Translation

Consider how poetry in English can refract other languages and explore the Atlantic as a space of exchange and translation.

Start Date: December 4, 2021 10.30am
End Date: December 11, 2021 ( 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.

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

Wayne Holloway-Smith Seminar 2021

What Next? (Autumn 2021)

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou (Autumn 2021)

The Poet’s Toolkit (Autumn 2021)

What Now? (Intermediate, Autumn 2021)

Philip Gross Seminar 2021: Writing Alongside, Becoming Ourselves

Antony Dunn Seminars 2021

Greta Stoddart Zoom Seminar 2021

Alice Kavounas Seminar 2021

Creative Constraint (Autumn 2021)

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron (Autumn 2021)

Live Wires: Starting to Write (Autumn 2021)

Tension, Tenderness, & Truth: Reading Elaine Feinstein

Intermediate Poetry Workshop with Tim Dooley (Autumn 2021)

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Autumn 2021)

The Lyric AI: Poetry & Code

Writing After David Lynch

Tamar Yoseloff Seminars 2021

The Poetics of Reticence: A Reading & Writing Workshop

Shazea Quraishi Seminars 2021

The Language of Recovery: Poems of Hope & Healing

Kathryn Simmonds Seminar 2021

Jacqui Rowe Seminar 2021

Phoebe Power Seminar 2021

Poetry Surgery with Fiona Sampson

Comedy for Poets!

Rewilding Ecopoetry

Experiments in Transatlantic Translation

HOW VIDEO WORKS

WHAT WILL I LEARN?

COURSE FORMATS

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