Poetry Courses • Poetry School

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Tutor: Hannah Lowe

"Happy Those Early Days!': Writing the Child Self

Move beyond simple nostalgia to explore childhood, and writing the ‘child self’, on its own terms.

Start Date: February 27, 2021 10:30am
End Date: March 14, 2021 ( 16 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

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Tutor: James Davies

Super Sestina Studio

Learn the skills, tricks, and turns needed to truly master the sestina!

Start Date: March 1, 2021
End Date: March 29, 2021 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

Poetry Surgery with Timothy Donnelly (Spring 2021)

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Tutor: Timothy Donnelly

Poetry Surgery with Timothy Donnelly (Spring 2021)

In-depth 1-2-1 discussion on your poetry with Timothy Donnelly.

Start Date: March 12, 2021 2.30pm
End Date: March 12, 2021 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

Poetry & Syntax: An Emergency Toothpick in an Imaginary Landscape

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Tutor: Astrid Alben

Poetry & Syntax: An Emergency Toothpick in an Imaginary Landscape

Learn to outwit, cajole, and break free from syntax to transcend poetic writing and produce true works of art.

Start Date: March 13, 2021 10:30am
End Date: March 27, 2021 ( 15 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

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Tutor: Ed Luker & Holly Pester

Dreaming Non Sensing

A collaborative dreaming and writing un-workshop.

Start Date: March 20, 2021 10.30am
End Date: March 27, 2021 ( 8 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

£150.00 *

Tutor: Glyn Maxwell

Dark Canadee

Calling Poets, Pirates, and Dreamers; come sail with us to Dark Canadee.

Start Date: March 24, 2021
Type: Online

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Tutor: Jade Cuttle

Poetic Botany (International)

Take inspiration from the botanical world and explore the fruitful grounds between poetry and plants.

Start Date: May 2, 2021
End Date: July 11, 2021 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Channel Hopping: A French Exchange (Transreading, Summer 2021)

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Tutor: Paul Stephenson

Channel Hopping: A French Exchange (Transreading, Summer 2021)

Write exciting new poems inspired by France’s vibrant and diverse poetry scene.

Start Date: May 3, 2021
End Date: July 12, 2021 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Shazea Quraishi (Summer 2021)

£180.00 *

Tutor: Shazea Quraishi

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Shazea Quraishi (Summer 2021)

Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced workshop with Shazea Quraishi.

Start Date: May 3, 2021 6:45pm
End Date: July 12, 2021 ( 71 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

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Tutor: Caroline Bergvall

Site-Specific Writing Studio

After being cooped up inside for so long, take your writing into the world and get site-specific.

Start Date: May 3, 2021
End Date: May 31, 2021 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

£79.00 *

Tutor: Gboyega Odubanjo

Reloads & Reprises: Repetition Studio

Repeat, reiterate, rephrase, return, reload, and reprise with Gboyega Odubanjo.

Start Date: May 3, 2021
End Date: May 31, 2021 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Richard Georges

Echoing Forms: Masterclass

Using choruses, repetition, and other techniques to create echoes and resonances that amplify.

Start Date: May 3, 2021
End Date: July 26, 2021 ( 85 Days )
Type: Online

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou (Summer 2021)

£180.00 *

Tutor: Anthony Anaxagorou

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou (Summer 2021)

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

Start Date: May 3, 2021 2.00pm
End Date: July 5, 2021 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

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Tutor: Kathryn Simmonds

Hearing Voices (International)

Learn to shape your poetic voice and experiment with new ones in your writing.

Start Date: May 3, 2021
End Date: July 12, 2021 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

£180.00 *

Tutor: Tamar Yoseloff

Read & Respond (Summer 2021)

Join MA tutor Tamar Yoseloff for a close examination of many styles and approaches to hone your skills and bring your poetry to new and exciting places!

Start Date: May 4, 2021 6.45pm
End Date: July 6, 2021 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

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Tutor: Peter Hughes

Poet / Tree: Masterclass

Investigate the poetic potential of trees in myths, legends, and scientific sources.

Start Date: May 4, 2021
End Date: July 27, 2021 ( 85 Days )
Type: Online

The Dinner Table – a Fortnightly Workshop with Special Guests

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Tutor: Rachel Long

The Dinner Table – a Fortnightly Workshop with Special Guests

Because who's been to a dinner party for the longest time?

Start Date: May 4, 2021 7.00pm
End Date: June 29, 2021 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

'The most intimate act of reading': Translating Poetry & the Politics of the Personal (Transreading, Summer 2021)

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Tutor: Sophie Collins

'The most intimate act of reading': Translating Poetry & the Politics of the Personal (Transreading, Summer 2021)

Develop your poetry translation practice with exciting poet and translator Sophie Collins.

Start Date: May 4, 2021
End Date: July 13, 2021 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Intermediate Poetry Workshop with Tim Dooley (Summer 2021)

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Tutor: Tim Dooley

Intermediate Poetry Workshop with Tim Dooley (Summer 2021)

Tim Dooley’s weekly workshop for poets looking to develop their individual voice and technique.

Start Date: May 5, 2021 2.00pm
End Date: July 14, 2021 ( 71 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

£180.00 *

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron (Summer 2021)

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

Start Date: May 5, 2021 6.45pm
End Date: July 7, 2021 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

The Possibility of Everything: Writing Experimental Poetry

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Tutor: James Davies

The Possibility of Everything: Writing Experimental Poetry

An advanced tour through avant-garde writing with the editor of experimental poetry press, if p then q.

Start Date: May 5, 2021
End Date: July 28, 2021 ( 85 Days )
Type: Online

£180.00 *

Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra

Creative Constraint (Summer 2021)

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

Start Date: May 5, 2021 6.45pm
End Date: July 7, 2021 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

‘Concept Books’ & Cumulative Writing (International, Summer 2021)

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Tutor: Shazea Quraishi

‘Concept Books’ & Cumulative Writing (International, Summer 2021)

Explore writing around a unifying idea to create a multi-faceted, cumulative 'concept book’.

Start Date: May 5, 2021
End Date: July 21, 2021 ( 78 Days )
Type: Online

Ars Poetica: Cold Showers & Restless Sheets

£109.00 *

Tutor: Sam Buchan-Watts

Ars Poetica: Cold Showers & Restless Sheets

Test the limits of ‘ars poetica’ to ask whether all poems are really about poetry?

Start Date: May 5, 2021
End Date: July 14, 2021 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

£180.00 *

Tutor: Meryl Pugh

First Encounters (Summer 2021)

Take your first steps into the world of poetry!

Start Date: May 6, 2021 6.45pm
End Date: July 8, 2021 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

Fortnightly Feedback with André Naffis-Sahely (Summer 2021)

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Tutor: André Naffis-Sahely

Fortnightly Feedback with André Naffis-Sahely (Summer 2021)

Knock your loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback from expert editor and poet, André Naffis-Sahely.

Start Date: May 6, 2021
End Date: July 15, 2021 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Summer 2021)

£180.00 *

Tutor: Richard Price

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Summer 2021)

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

Start Date: May 7, 2021 11.00am
End Date: July 16, 2021 ( 71 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

£75.00 *

Tutor: Richard Scott and James Womack

Overenthusiastic Translation

Break down and build up again: look at the work of non-English poets from the past and uncover the clues they can offer your own practice.

Start Date: May 8, 2021 10.30am
End Date: May 22, 2021 ( 15 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

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Tutor: Liz Berry

Poetry Surgery with Liz Berry

In-depth 1-2-1 discussion on your poetry with Liz Berry.

Start Date: May 8, 2021 10.30am
End Date: May 8, 2021 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

Saturday Sessions with Ros Barber (Summer 2021)

£177.00 *

Tutor: Ros Barber

Saturday Sessions with Ros Barber (Summer 2021)

Monthly all-day Saturday workshops with Ros Barber.

Start Date: May 8, 2021 10.30am
End Date: July 3, 2021 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

£180.00 *

Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith

What Now? (Advanced, Summer 2021)

Take the next steps in your poetry career and explore contemporary poetry’s cutting-edge.

Start Date: May 10, 2021 6.45pm
End Date: July 19, 2021 ( 71 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

Poetry Dinner Party: The Old and the New Studio+

£100.00 *

Tutor: Phoebe Power

Poetry Dinner Party: The Old and the New Studio+

Bring voices from literary history into conversation with present-day poetics to expand your own writing.

Start Date: May 10, 2021
End Date: June 14, 2021 ( 36 Days )
Type: Online

£180.00 *

Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith

What Now? (Intermediate, Summer 2021)

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

Start Date: May 11, 2021 6.45pm
End Date: July 13, 2021 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

Integrated Circuits: Creating Digital Poetry (Summer 2021)

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Tutor: Maya Chowdhry

Integrated Circuits: Creating Digital Poetry (Summer 2021)

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

Start Date: May 11, 2021
End Date: July 13, 2021 ( 64 Days )
Type: Online

Shifting Landscape: Ecopoetics, the Body, & Science of Time (International)

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Tutor: Elena Byrne

Shifting Landscape: Ecopoetics, the Body, & Science of Time (International)

Embody the natural world and become the speaking body of nature in your work.

Start Date: May 12, 2021
End Date: July 21, 2021 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Transreading Ukrainian poetry: ‘a crimson bush amidst silence’

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Tutor: Steve Komarnyckyj

Transreading Ukrainian poetry: ‘a crimson bush amidst silence’

Explore one of the world's greatest neglected literatures in Transreading Ukrainian poetry.

Start Date: May 12, 2021
End Date: July 21, 2021 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Jonathan Edwards

Poetry & The Family

Explore sensitive and truthful ways to represent family relationships in your work.

Start Date: May 12, 2021
End Date: July 21, 2021 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Zakia Carpenter-Hall

Myth, Body, Belief (Summer 2021)

Start to depict your own multitudes and forge pathways of poetic connection.

Start Date: May 13, 2021
End Date: July 22, 2021 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

£95.00 *

Tutor: Rebecca Levi

Poetry that Travels

After a year spent in one place, join us for some poetic travel!

Start Date: May 13, 2021 7.00pm
End Date: July 8, 2021 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

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Lyric Poetry & Poetic Lyrics (International)

Read and write poetry, listen to music, take inspiration from lyrics, and consider the connections between them all.

Start Date: May 13, 2021
End Date: July 22, 2021 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Becky Varley-Winter

Soundscapes

Explore poetry as a musical instrument, to develop your skills with rhythm and musicality.

Start Date: May 20, 2021 7.00pm
End Date: July 15, 2021 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

Libations: Exploring the Inner Spring Studio

£79.00 *

Tutor: Belinda Zhawi

Libations: Exploring the Inner Spring Studio

Reconnect with, and celebrate, the world around you through poetry.

Start Date: May 26, 2021
End Date: June 23, 2021 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

£75.00 *

Tutor: Kathryn Simmonds

Let There be Poems!

Consider how one might write poems of faith in this more secular age.

Start Date: June 5, 2021 10.30am
End Date: June 12, 2021 ( 8 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face

Caledonia Dreamin': Exploring Scotland's Poetry

£75.00 *

Tutor: Richard Price

Caledonia Dreamin': Exploring Scotland's Poetry

Take a tour of Scottish poetry with expert guide, Richard Price.

Start Date: June 12, 2021 10.30am
End Date: July 3, 2021 ( 22 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

‘I Know That is Poetry’: A Reading & Writing Workshop

£75.00 *

Tutor: Eve Grubin

‘I Know That is Poetry’: A Reading & Writing Workshop

Explore the work of Emily Dickinson for inspiration in your own writing.

Start Date: June 16, 2021 6.30pm
End Date: June 30, 2021 ( 15 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

'The Owls Are Not What They Seem’: Writing Poems Inspired by Twin Peaks

£75.00 *

Tutor: Chrissy Williams

'The Owls Are Not What They Seem’: Writing Poems Inspired by Twin Peaks

Across the room, a giant waves his arms in slow-motion as the music fades – poetry is happening again.

Start Date: June 19, 2021 10.30am
End Date: June 19, 2021 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

A House of Many Rooms: The Sonnet Sequence

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Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra

A House of Many Rooms: The Sonnet Sequence

Find your ‘big idea’ and get to work on a propulsive new sonnet sequence with an expert in the field!

Start Date: June 26, 2021 10:30am
End Date: July 10, 2021 ( 15 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

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Tutor: Fiona Benson

Poetry Surgery with Fiona Benson

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

Start Date: July 10, 2021 10.30am
End Date: July 10, 2021 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

£75.00 *

Tutor: Sarah Westcott and Joe Beale

Looking at Lichens

Join us for an inspiring day of reading, writing, and discussion, alongside some practical exploration of lichens!

Start Date: July 17, 2021 10:30am
End Date: July 17, 2021 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

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