Courses

Walk through the Snowdonia National Park with us and take inspiration from this exceptional natural location.

Explore the potential for poetics to transform bodily experience into new creative work.

Explore the muse of disasters and learn how we can usefully write trauma, tragedy, and catastrophe for a better tomorrow.

Find the forms, craft, and confidence to think through pretence, fraudulence, and personae.

Enter the dark forest to find inspiration in the mesmerising world of Dante’s Divine Comedy.

Learn where your resistances are and try working against them. Who knows what will happen?

Consider the shape and weight of loss as we explore the elegy.

Find inspiration in the cinema of Hitchcock as we experiment with suspense, mother figures, and MacGuffins in our poetry.

Knock your loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback from poet and editor, Rebecca Watts.

Push your ekphrastic practice to the next level under the guidance of expert editor and writer, Elena Karina Byrne.

Experiment with sprawling forms, large scale works, and ambitious sequences to create a lasting impact.

Reflect on home, exile, journeys, war, and humanity.

Explore the creative potential of the pamphlet form with expert pamphlet publishers, Guillemot Press.

Closely examine the work of Robert Frost to take inspiration from one of poetry’s true masters.

Learn to use daring figurative language and harness the power of surprising imagery.

Encounter and experiment with the essayistic, as we blend poetry, memoir, and criticism to create radical new forms.

Explore avant-garde Sound Poetry, as we look for patterns and music in language that are not rooted in syntax.

Explore poetry and collage to expand your practice and open up new avenues for mixed-media writing.

Like love and sex, death is one of the great mysteries; meditate on the many approaches to the topic and develop exciting new work of your own in this field.

Join us to create community through writing, as we explore that difficult topic of loneliness.

Grab your Indiana Jones hat and trowel – in this course we’ll generate new poems inspired by the work of archaeologists and the objects they uncover.