Poetry Courses • Poetry School

Manchester Saturday Sessions (July 2018)

One of three all-day workshop sessions with the Sansoms in Manchester.

Start Date: July 14, 2018 10.30am
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street., Manchester

Literary Locomotion: The Poetry of Movement

£72.00 *

Tutor: Rebecca Goss

Literary Locomotion: The Poetry of Movement

Explore poems on the pleasures and pains of bodily effort.

Start Date: July 21, 2018 10.30am
Type: Face-to-Face • Location:

Portrait of the Artist As a Horse: Animal Transformation in Poetry

£35.00 *

Tutor: A.K. Blakemore

Portrait of the Artist As a Horse: Animal Transformation in Poetry

Learn what it means to be human by exploring the playful and grotesque potential of animal iconography, and the chimeric possibilities of the poetic form with A.K. Blakemore.

Start Date: July 23, 2018 10:30am
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

'She Whom the Moon Ruled': Astrophysics, Astrology & Poetry

£35.00 *

Tutor: Sunayana Bhargava and Rhondda Rhiannon

'She Whom the Moon Ruled': Astrophysics, Astrology & Poetry

Get your telescopes ready to explore the universe with an astrophysicist and consider your place among the stars to inspire new poems of your own.

Start Date: July 23, 2018 2pm
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Form And Microform: The Cinquain & the Three-Part Poem

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Tutor: George Szirtes

Form And Microform: The Cinquain & the Three-Part Poem

Look at the minutiae and delicate balances of short-form poetry, exploring how the demands of form can liberate the imagination and refine the ear.

Start Date: July 24, 2018 2pm
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

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Tutor: Matthew Welton

"The Phrase"

Explore how phrases can form a vital part of your poetry toolkit, and how deploying a choice phrase can inject something unique into your poems.

Start Date: July 24, 2018 10.30am
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£35.00 *

Tutor: Will Harris

The Ethics of Perspective

Explore the art, artifice and ethics of bearing witness and taking up other's perspectives in your poetry.

Start Date: July 25, 2018 10.30am
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Seeing & Being Seen: Poetry, Photography & The Gaze

£35.00 *

Tutor: Amaal Said and Momtaza Mehri

Seeing & Being Seen: Poetry, Photography & The Gaze

Get into, and out of, the frame and explore what it is to see, and be seen, in both poetry and photography.

Start Date: July 25, 2018 2pm
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£35.00 *

Tutor: Keith Jarrett

Ritual, Belief & Poetry

Investigate the world of rituals, ranging from the everyday to the unusual, and learn how to use these as stepping-off points for new poems.

Start Date: July 26, 2018 10.30am
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£35.00 *

Tutor: Belinda Zhawi

Sonic Healing: Poems of Loss

Explore the different facets of mourning, and learn how to harness these experiences to create exciting, healing and sonorous new work.

Start Date: July 26, 2018 2pm
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£35.00 *

Tutor: Theresa Lola

Poetry & Fashion

Explore how the textures of fashion and poetry intertwine, before using clothing as stimulus to generate new poems.

Start Date: July 27, 2018 10.30am
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£35.00 *

Tutor: Rachel Long

Irreverent Womyn

Explore the importance of irreverence in contemporary poetry, before writing some impudent poems of your own.

Start Date: July 27, 2018 2pm
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Imaginary Spaces: A Sculptor’s Kit for Poets (Masterclass)

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Tutor: Eric Berlin

Imaginary Spaces: A Sculptor’s Kit for Poets (Masterclass)

Shape bold new poems under the mastery of the great sculptors

Start Date: September 24, 2018
End Date: December 17, 2018 ( 85 Days )
Type: Online

£79.00 *

Tutor: Remi Graves

The Decisive Moment Studio

Explore what matters to you most by mining moments of magnitude in your life.

Start Date: September 24, 2018
End Date: October 22, 2018 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

£109.00 *

Tutor: Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese

Transreading Russia

Celebrate present-day Russia through its poetry, and create your own new translations and trans-readings

Start Date: September 25, 2018
End Date: December 4, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Integrated Circuits: Creating Digital Poetry

£109.00 *

Tutor: Maya Chowdhry

Integrated Circuits: Creating Digital Poetry

Leap from page to screen and create interactive poems fit for our digital age

Start Date: September 25, 2018
End Date: December 4, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Seán Hewitt

The God in the Forest: Nature Mysticism

Awaken the mysterious, divine power of rocks, rivers, birds, trees, ourselves

Start Date: September 26, 2018
End Date: December 5, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Conscious Tracks: British Modernism (Masterclass)

£179.00 *

Tutor: Peter Hughes

Conscious Tracks: British Modernism (Masterclass)

Excavate from the language hoard of radical, underground and late modernist British poetry

Start Date: September 26, 2018
End Date: December 19, 2018 ( 85 Days )
Type: Online

Please – No More Poetry: Postmemory & Historical Trauma

£109.00 *

Tutor: Anna Veprinska

Please – No More Poetry: Postmemory & Historical Trauma

How do we write responsibly about our intergenerational traumas?

Start Date: September 27, 2018
End Date: December 6, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Writing on the Cusp of Becoming Something Else (International)

£109.00 *

Tutor: J. R. Carpenter

Writing on the Cusp of Becoming Something Else (International)

Incorporate variability, instability, transformation, and change into your writing process

Start Date: September 27, 2018
End Date: December 6, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

£79.00 *

Tutor: Degna Stone

Fortnightly Feedback with Degna Stone

Knock those loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback

Start Date: September 28, 2018
End Date: December 7, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

£109.00 *

Tutor: Ken Evans

Speaking Out: Finding Your Public Voice

Poetry is a platform, not an altar

Start Date: October 1, 2018
End Date: December 10, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Poems of Love, Poems of Praise (International, Autumn 2018)

£109.00 *

Tutor: Zeina Hashem Beck

Poems of Love, Poems of Praise (International, Autumn 2018)

Choose love, write against brokenness and towards the idea of praise

Start Date: October 1, 2018
End Date: December 10, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

£171.00 *

Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith

Pamphlet / Portfolio (Autumn 2018)

Take your work to the next level and develop your portfolio with Wayne Holloway-Smith

Start Date: October 1, 2018 6:45pm
End Date: December 3, 2018 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£171.00 *

Tutor: Shazea Quraishi

The Poet’s Toolkit (Autumn 2018)

Explore poetry's inner workings, hone your craft, and take a close look at various forms and techniques to help your poems achieve lift-off.

Start Date: October 1, 2018 6:45pm
End Date: December 3, 2018 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Tell Me About a Complicated Man: Poetry Inspired by 'The Odyssey'

£109.00 *

Tutor: Stav Poleg

Tell Me About a Complicated Man: Poetry Inspired by 'The Odyssey'

Re-imagine Homer's cast of Olympians, sea-monsters, Lotus Eaters and mere humans with Emily Wilson’s ground-breaking new translation

Start Date: October 2, 2018
End Date: December 11, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

We Cannot Stop the Rumbling Trains: Contemporary Chinese Poetry (Transreading)

£109.00 *

Tutor: David Tait

We Cannot Stop the Rumbling Trains: Contemporary Chinese Poetry (Transreading)

Rejuvenate your poems with a bold, new wave of Chinese voices

Start Date: October 2, 2018
End Date: December 11, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Accidents of Gain: Reading C20th American Poetry

£171.00 *

Tutor: Chris McCabe

Accidents of Gain: Reading C20th American Poetry

A reading course looking at the breadth of 20th century American poetry.

Start Date: October 2, 2018 6:45pm
End Date: December 4, 2018 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

On Noticing and Startling: The Short Story (Autumn 2018)

£90.00 *

Tutor: Eley Williams and David Hayden

On Noticing and Startling: The Short Story (Autumn 2018)

Study with two celebrated writers, to learn the various poetic techniques that can also be used in writing short fiction.

Start Date: October 2, 2018 6:45pm
End Date: November 27, 2018 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Special Guests Tues AM (Autumn 2018)

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Tutor: Kathryn Maris

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Special Guests Tues AM (Autumn 2018)

One of our flagship advanced workshops, with the added perk of special guests each term.

Start Date: October 2, 2018 11am
End Date: December 4, 2018 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Short Short Fiction: The Tiniest of Stories

£109.00 *

Tutor: Tania Hershman

Short Short Fiction: The Tiniest of Stories

What can poets learn from short fiction, and vice-versa?

Start Date: October 3, 2018
End Date: December 12, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Possibilities of the Line (International)

£109.00 *

Tutor: Jennifer Wong

Possibilities of the Line (International)

Going back-to-basics-and-beyond with the essential unit of poetry

Start Date: October 3, 2018
End Date: December 12, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Intermediate Poetry Workshop (Autumn 2018)

£171.00 *

Tutor: Tim Dooley

Intermediate Poetry Workshop (Autumn 2018)

A weekly workshop for poets looking to develop their individual voice and technique, run by the inimitable Tim Dooley.

Start Date: October 3, 2018 2pm
End Date: December 12, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£171.00 *

Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra

Poem, Prompt, Pick & Mix (Autumn 2018)

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

Start Date: October 3, 2018 6:45pm
End Date: December 5, 2018 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Sasha Dugdale (Autumn 2018)

£171.00 *

Tutor: Sasha Dugdale

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Sasha Dugdale (Autumn 2018)

Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced workshop with Sasha Dugdale.

Start Date: October 3, 2018 6.45pm
End Date: December 12, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£109.00 *

Tutor: Chen Chen

The Art of Telling (International)

Tell, don't show, with multiloquent new work

Start Date: October 4, 2018
End Date: December 13, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Against English: Dialects, Distortions and New Vocabularies

£109.00 *

Tutor: Harry Giles

Against English: Dialects, Distortions and New Vocabularies

Write against English, take it apart, and explode language altogether

Start Date: October 4, 2018
End Date: December 13, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Special Guests Thurs PM (Autumn 2018)

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Tutor: Kathryn Maris

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Special Guests Thurs PM (Autumn 2018)

One of our flagship advanced workshops, with the added perk of special guests each term.

Start Date: October 4, 2018 2pm
End Date: December 6, 2018 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£171.00 *

Tutor: Meryl Pugh

First Encounters (Autumn 2018)

Take your first steps into the world of poetry!

Start Date: October 4, 2018 6:45pm
End Date: December 6, 2018 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Living in a Different World: Poetry, Of, Through and After 1968 (International)

£109.00 *

Tutor: Gloria Dawson

Living in a Different World: Poetry, Of, Through and After 1968 (International)

Radical readings and revolutionary spirit from 1968 – the year that shook the world

Start Date: October 5, 2018
End Date: December 14, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Autumn 2018)

£171.00 *

Tutor: Richard Price

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Autumn 2018)

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

Start Date: October 5, 2018 11am
End Date: December 7, 2018 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Saturday Sessions with Ros Barber (Autumn 2018)

£177.00 *

Tutor: Ros Barber

Saturday Sessions with Ros Barber (Autumn 2018)

Monthly all-day Saturday workshops with Ros Barber.

Start Date: October 6, 2018 10.30am
End Date: December 1, 2018 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£90.00 *

Tutor: Sally Flint

‘Cradle to Grave': The Journey

Move chronologically through life's journey with Sally Flint, learning how to capture the significant moments in new and original poems.

Start Date: October 8, 2018 6:45pm
End Date: December 3, 2018 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Exeter Community Centre, Exeter

£90.00 *

Tutor: Joey Connolly

Fuck Lyric: Politics and Poetic Form

Join the fight and write new, original poems in support of poetry's resistance against conservative conformity

Start Date: October 9, 2018 6.45pm
End Date: December 4, 2018 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£90.00 *

Tutor: Rowan Evans

Ancient Tongues & Hybrid Texts

Expand your writing between voices and across centuries to explore how poetry can respond to ancient languages, folk culture and myth,.

Start Date: October 10, 2018 6:45pm
End Date: December 5, 2018 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Hours, Bristol

£72.00 *

Tutor: Caleb Femi

Language of the Social

Join Caleb Femi to explore the social side of language and break through its barriers to catch a true glimpse of reality.

Start Date: October 13, 2018 10.30am
End Date: October 13, 2018 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

So Many Blood-Lakes: Ecological Nightmares Studio

£79.00 *

Tutor: André Naffis-Sahely

So Many Blood-Lakes: Ecological Nightmares Studio

Write poems about our increasingly imperiled natural world, unhampered by human expediencies

Start Date: October 15, 2018
End Date: November 12, 2018 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

Bridging Two Different Lands: Identity and Place

£72.00 *

Tutor: Romalyn Ante

Bridging Two Different Lands: Identity and Place

Explore the effects of travel and place on your poetic identity with PRIMERS winner Romalyn Ante.

Start Date: October 20, 2018 10.30am
End Date: October 20, 2018 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£72.00 *

Tutor: Linda Black

Working with Collage

Explore collage and re-appropriation with Linda Black, learning how these processes can create exciting and original poems of your own.

Start Date: October 27, 2018 10.30am
End Date: October 27, 2018 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£144.00 *

Tutor: Steven J Fowler

Mondo: The Global Avant-Garde

Journey through a world of avant-garde poetry over this jam-packed weekend with SJ Fowler.

Start Date: November 3, 2018 10.30am
End Date: November 4, 2018 ( 2 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£79.00 *

Tutor: MacGillivray

Skeleton Alphabet Studio

Put your poems on the anatomist's slab and sing the body electric

Start Date: November 5, 2018
End Date: December 3, 2018 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

£90.00 *

Tutor: Adam Feinstein

Poetry & Cinema

Explore the potent connections between poetry and cinema with acclaimed translator and film critic Adam Feinstein

Start Date: November 8, 2018 6:45pm
End Date: December 6, 2018 ( 29 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Poem of the Air: Marina Tsvetaeva Translation Weekend

£144.00 *

Tutor: Sasha Dugdale

Poem of the Air: Marina Tsvetaeva Translation Weekend

Get up close and personal with the extraordinary work of Marina Tsvetaeva, working with her previously-untranslated 'Poem of the Air'.

Start Date: November 10, 2018 10.30am
End Date: November 11, 2018 ( 2 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£72.00 *

Tutor: Joe Dunthorne

The Portable Generator

Join this intensive writing day with acclaimed novelist and Faber poet, Joe Dunthorne!

Start Date: November 17, 2018 10.30am
End Date: November 17, 2018 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£79.00 *

Tutor: Caleb Parkin

Thingly Power: (In)Animate Studio

Discover your sensuous side and write poems exploring the radiant materiality of curious objects

Start Date: November 19, 2018
End Date: December 17, 2018 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

The Big Idea: Building The Sonnet Sequence

£72.00 *

Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra

The Big Idea: Building The Sonnet Sequence

What could be better than a sonnet? A sonnet sequence!

Start Date: November 24, 2018 10.30am
End Date: November 24, 2018 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£72.00 *

Tutor: Miriam Darlington

The Spell of the Sensuous

Use your senses to bring poems alive.

Start Date: December 1, 2018 10.30am
End Date: December 1, 2018 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£10.00

Tutor: Pascale Petit

The aim of this course is to give guidance and advice towards compiling a collection and getting it published. This could be your first full-length book, a pamphlet, or an application for an Eric Gregory Award.

Type: Downloads

£15.00

Tutor: Graham Fawcett

Poetry & Autobiography

Poetry is revelation, but poets do not necessarily reveal themselves or tell us their life-stories in their poetry.

Type: Downloads

£15.00

Tutor: Tamar Yoseloff

Routes into Poetry

For beginners (but not absolute beginners!) and intermediate writers who want to explore some definitions of poetry; and to start some structured learning about rhyme, metre, verse forms, lineation and stanzas.

Type: Downloads

£10.00

Tutor: Nigel Forde

How to Write Poetry

A grounding in the basics for new writers, this course works through ten lessons exploring some of the traditions of poetry writing, an introduction to form and metre, and tips to develop intense, precise and significant poems.

Type: Downloads

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