Indulge your animal fascinations and explore the diverse world of ‘creaturely’ poetry.
£35.00 *
Tutor: Elaine Baker
£35.00 *
Tutor: Elaine Baker
£35.00 *
Tutor: Momtaza Mehri
The Pleasures of Refusal
Delve into the possibilities and pleasures of refusal, and delight in the sanctity of illegibility.
£35.00 *
Tutor: Theresa Lola
Without Rest: Poetry and Death
Explore techniques and forms to breathe new life into this essential and weighty topic.
£35.00 *
Tutor: Carmina Masoliver
Stage to Page
Take inspiration from poets who occupy both stage and page, and explore how to transform existing performance work onto the page.
£0.00
Tutor: Various Tutors
Poetry School Summer 2018 Launch Reading
With Kevin Coval, Safia Elhillo, Elaine Kahn, Glyn Maxwell, Holly Pester and Richard Scott
£30.00
Tutor: Kevin Coval, Safia Elhillo and Nick Makoha
The BreakBeat Internationally Known Workshops
A full day featuring three cypher-style workshops with the BreakBeat Poets for just £30
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Tutor: Nuar Alsadir
Poetry Surgery with Nuar Alsadir
Book a one-to-one feedback session with visiting American poet Nuar Alsadir!
£109.00 *
Tutor: Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese
Transreading the Baltics
Opening up the under-recognised poetries of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia
£79.00 *
Tutor: Gloria Dawson
Writing as Wanting: Desire Studio
Explore the boundaries of writing from, about and naming desire
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Tutor: Eric Berlin
Fortnightly Feedback with Eric Berlin
Knock those loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback
£109.00 *
Tutor: David Tait
Tales from the World City (International, Summer 2018)
Dive into dark alleyways, discovering poetry and prose that has been inspired by some of the greatest cities in the world
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Tutor: Liane Strauss
Eternal Sunshine: The Elements of Poetic Language (Masterclass)
A lyrical look at feeling, forgetting, intuition, image, and seeing the world in a totally new way
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Tutor: Suzannah Evans
Die Like A Wolf: Writing the Non-Human
Formulate a new poetic language that transcends the merely human
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Tutor: Peter Hughes
Smears & Caresses: The Poetry of Abstract Art (International)
Create poems inspired by the most exciting art of the past century
£171.00 *
Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra
Poem, Prompt, Pick & Mix (Summer 2018)
Mix up your writing and learn new skills and techniques with Jacqueline Saphra
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Tutor: Rachel Piercey
Two for Joy: Happy Poems
The radical art of writing defiantly happy poems
£109.00 *
Tutor: Nisha Ramayya
Decolonising Translation: Poetry, Power, Relation, and Difference (Transreading)
If translation is a movement, who is permitted to cross?
£109.00 *
Tutor: Leah Umansky
Fully Automated Radical Pessimism (International)
Writing after and against the new dystopian
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Tutor: Sarah Byrne
The Opposite House: But We Never Go In That Room!
Play congenial hosts to your psychoanalytical ‘opposites’
£72.00 *
Tutor: Elaine Kahn
Trash Poetics
Join US poet Elaine Kahn on a journey to transform the discarded into the divine.
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Tutor: Jack Underwood
Advanced Poetry Workshop with Jack Underwood (Summer 2018)
Develop your work-in-progress through discussion and feedback in an advanced workshop
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Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith
Pamphlet / Portfolio (Summer 2018)
Looking to take your work to the next level and develop your portfolio
£171.00 *
Tutor: Various Tutors
The Construction of the Poem (Summer 2018)
A rotating line-up of special guest tutors teach you how to construct a poem.
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Tutor: Will Harris
More Life: Philosophy as Poetry (Summer 2018)
Use philosophical concepts to sharpen your poetry, and poetry to bring those concepts to life
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Tutor: Richard Georges
Discovering the Divine (International)
How can poetry help us discover the ecstatic in the everyday?
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Tutor: Adam Crothers
Each Thing’s a Thief: Memory, Theft and Tradition (International, Summer 2018)
Avoid plagiarism, but explore the creative activity of appropriation and "stealing"
£171.00 *
Tutor: Tim Dooley
Shaping a Style (Summer 2018)
Define your goals as a writer and develop an individual body of work in the third of Tim Dooley's courses.
£90.00 *
Tutor: Matti Spence
Poetics of Presence (Exeter)
Learn to practise poetry as a method of deep-listening and an expansion of how you experience the present moment.
£171.00 *
Tutor: Tamar Yoseloff
Routes into Poetry (Summer 2018)
For beginner writers who want to explore some definitions of poetry; and to start some structured learning about rhyme, metre, verse forms, lineation and stanzas.
£109.00 *
Tutor: Christina Thatcher
Taboo: Saying the Unsaid
Confront forbidden topics through a literary lens
£90.00 *
Tutor: Samantha Walton
Ecopoetry, Environmentalism and Activism (Bristol)
Explore poetry’s power to engage with environmental issues and imagine new ecological futures.
£109.00 *
Tutor: Jennifer Wong
At Risk: Going Somewhere Different in Poetry (Summer 2018)
How can poetry speak to us if it does not take risks, say something bold and new, make adventurous leaps with language and form?
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Tutor: Eley Williams and David Hayden
On Noticing and Startling: The Short Story
Study with two celebrated poets and short story writers, to learn the different poetic techniques that can also be used in short fiction.
£171.00 *
Tutor: David Crystal
Intermediate Poetry Workshop (Summer 2018)
A weekly workshop for poets looking to develop their individual voice and technique
£171.00 *
Tutor: Kathryn Maris
Advanced Poetry Workshop with Special Guests AM (Summer 2018)
One of our flagship advanced workshops, with the benefit of special guests
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Tutor: Kathryn Maris
Advanced Poetry Workshop with Special Guests PM (Summer 2018)
One of our flagship advanced workshops, with the benefit of special guests
£171.00 *
Tutor: Meryl Pugh
First Encounters (Summer 2018)
Take your first steps into the world of poetry!
£90.00 *
Tutor: Kate Potts
Talking Back: Poetry, Dialogue and Voice
Explore the power and potential of voice and dialogue in poetry, while developing your own unique poetic voice
£72.00 *
Tutor: Nick Makoha
Metic Poets
Join Nick Makoha to ask whether poetic writing is always some form of 'Metic' practice.
£59.00 *
Tutor: Peter Sansom
Manchester Saturday Sessions (May 2018)
One of three all-day workshop sessions with the Sansoms in Manchester.
Tutor: Richard Georges
Poetry Playback: 'Giant' by Richard Georges
Richard Georges reads his latest collection, 'Giant', cover to cover
£171.00 *
Tutor: Sasha Dugdale
Advanced Poetry Workshop with Sasha Dugdale (Summer 2018)
Develop your work-in-progress through discussion and feedback in an advanced workshop
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Tutor: Tamar Yoseloff
The New York Influence 1: O'Hara, Ashbery and Visual Art
Take inspiration from O’Hara and Ashbery’s work as poets, critics and curators.
Tutor: Richard Georges
Home is a Name: Journeys, Departures, and Arrivals
A special Saturday morning poetry workshop at Parasol Unit, with Richard Georges
£177.00 *
Tutor: Ros Barber
Saturday Sessions with Ros Barber (Summer 2018)
Monthly all-day Saturday workshops with Ros Barber.
£79.00 *
Tutor: Jason Schneiderman
Sestina Insanity Studio
Conquering the complex, elaborate, diabolical sestina
£72.00 *
Tutor: Holly Pester
The Nervous Line and its Performative Break
Study the dynamics of a line of poetry, and consider ways in which a line might be wildly interpreted.
£72.00 *
Tutor: Katrina Naomi
When I Was at my Most Beautiful
Take inspiration from contemporary and traditional Japanese poetry, and try your hand at some translation.
£59.00 *
Tutor: Peter Sansom
Manchester Saturday Sessions (June 2018)
One of three all-day workshop sessions with the Sansoms in Manchester.
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Tutor: Heidi Williamson
Thrill River Studio
A moving body, the veins of nature, the flow of life - a river runs through all of us
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Tutor: Andrew McMillan
Divinity of the Body
Journey with Andrew McMillan through the lens of the divine to explore the carnal, the weak, the shameful, the loving and the harmful parts of ourselves.
£90.00 *
Tutor: Abi Palmer
Writing from the Body: Physical Interaction and Multisensory Intrusions
Taking references from contemporary D/deaf & disabled poets and performers, explore how physical and sensory experiences can shape poetry.
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Tutor: Tamar Yoseloff
The New York Influence 2: Basquiat and Jazz Poetry
Take inspiration from Basquiat, Langston Hughes and Frank O’Hara, and use their improvisatory and collaborative energy to create new poems.
£144.00 *
Tutor: Jen Calleja
Creative Translation
Learn how to apply the tools of translation and transform other texts and art forms into poetry.
£79.00 *
Tutor: James Davies
Archiving Your Self Yourself: Quantified Self Studio
Archive, document and catalogue carefully selected moments of your life past, present and future
£59.00 *
Tutor: Peter Sansom
Manchester Saturday Sessions (July 2018)
One of three all-day workshop sessions with the Sansoms in Manchester.
£72.00 *
Tutor: Rebecca Goss
Literary Locomotion: The Poetry of Movement
Explore poems on the pleasures and pains of bodily effort.
£10.00
Tutor: Pascale Petit
Towards a Collection
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.
£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.
£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.
£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.