Courses

An invitation to innovate, explore, and take risks with your writing.

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

Navigate critical thinking around notions of place, space, and dwelling, as a springboard for writing innovative new poetry.

Knock your loose prose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback from expert in the field, Carrie Etter.

Explore writing in endangered languages, consider the politics of translation, and push your own poetry in completely new directions.

Explore rhythm, form, and harmony in the wordless patterns of music as inspiration for new poems.

Consider how we might write about our ‘animals others’ in an age of mass extinction.

When the apocalypse draws near, can poetry point to a brighter future?

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

Take inspiration from a poetic tradition filled with imaginative verse and spanning more than eight centuries.

Take inspiration from Nan Shepherd to explore how language can live between the body, self, and natural world.

Explore new approaches in your writing through the lens of pop culture!

Explore the intimacy of poetry on the boundaries of the readerly and discover new possibilities for what poems can be.

Flex your Transreading skills and write new poetry inspired by Chinese art & films.

Find inspiration in the language of science and organisational systems to create innovative new poetry.

Discover the possibilities of multi-vocal poetry on the page.

Confront forbidden topics through a literary lens.

‘I want it all. I want it all. And I want it now’. Delve into desire with Rachel Long.

Rummage through the archives with Khairani Barokka to inspire new historically-minded poems.

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