Courses

Free your poems from the fetters of self-censorship

Who's afraid of traditional rhyme?

How can we write poems of genuine faith in an increasingly disingenuous world?

Unpack the meaning of the poet's 'craft'

Who does a poem ‘speak’ to? Who (or what) is ‘speaking’?

Find pleasures and excess in food, drink and other mind-altering substances

Uplift mental wellbeing through the undefined, open space of poetic inquiry

Explode the expectations, forms and traditions of poetic thought

Craft poems on the ever-shifting edges of water and land

Trace ideas of the n/North and northerness, from every direction

Write fresh versions from some of the titans of Italian poetry: Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, Leopardi and Pascoli

Explore the work we do and how it defines us

Knock those loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback

Weird up your poetry with shadowplay, slippages, and the ever-so-jarring

Re-centre your poetics and speak truth to our fractured times

Charge your poems with fire's many themes

Think through gender, sexuality, and erotics in relation to mysticism and magic

Look inside-out at how we approach and evoke the natural world

Queeread and queerwrite across the borders of ourselves and others

Discover the levers and mechanisms that power free verse forms

Write poems inspired by myths and legends from across the globe

Explore poetry's many fascinations with birds, from flight to song

Illuminate your poems with the oft-overlooked wonders in everyday life