Poetry Courses • Poetry School

When the Bough Breaks: Writing Childhood, Writing Parenthood (Exeter)

Produce new poems on the ever-evolving journey of parenting and being parented

Start Date: April 17, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: June 5, 2019 ( 50 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Exeter Community Centre, Exeter

£90.00 *

Tutor: Richard O'Brien

Self, Place, World (Birmingham)

Explore your unique perspective on the world to create new poems

Start Date: April 27, 2019 12pm
End Date: June 29, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Pen Museum, Birmingham

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Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith

Pamphlet / Portfolio (Summer 2019)

Take your work to the next level and develop your portfolio

Start Date: April 29, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: July 1, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£171.00 *

Tutor: Shazea Quraishi

The Poet's Toolkit (Summer 2019)

Explore poetry’s inner workings, hone your craft, and look at various techniques to help your poems achieve lift-off

Start Date: April 29, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: July 1, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Transreading Classical Languages (Transreading)

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Tutor: Wanda O’Connor

Transreading Classical Languages (Transreading)

Compose fresh responses to Ancient Greek and Latin texts and fragments

Start Date: April 29, 2019
End Date: July 8, 2019 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Poem(a)s Studio: Reading Contemporary Latinx Poets

£79.00 *

Tutor: Natasha Hakimi Zapata

Poem(a)s Studio: Reading Contemporary Latinx Poets

Reinvigorate your poems with the rhythms of Latinx poetry

Start Date: April 29, 2019
End Date: May 27, 2019 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

£171.00 *

Tutor: Tim Dooley and Tamar Yoseloff

The Urban Pastoral (Reading Course)

Stroll the streets and contemplate nature’s role in the life of cities

Start Date: April 30, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: July 2, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Total Syntax: A Crash Course in Grammar, Diction & Phrasemaking

£90.00 *

Tutor: Dai George

Total Syntax: A Crash Course in Grammar, Diction & Phrasemaking

Explode the envelope of language to understand syntax, fragmentation, grammar and constraint

Start Date: April 30, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: June 25, 2019 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

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Tutor: Holly Corfield Carr

Writers, Retreat

Seek creative solace in solitude and silence

Start Date: April 30, 2019
End Date: July 9, 2019 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Cut-ups & Constraints: Applied Poetry (International)

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Tutor: Rhys Trimble

Cut-ups & Constraints: Applied Poetry (International)

Manipulate new meanings with cutting, folding, and chance encounters

Start Date: April 30, 2019
End Date: July 9, 2019 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Channel Hopping: A French Exchange (Transreading)

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Tutor: Paul Stephenson

Channel Hopping: A French Exchange (Transreading)

Writing ‘real’ poems inspired by France’s vibrant and diverse poetry scene

Start Date: April 30, 2019
End Date: July 9, 2019 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Riddlecraft: From Kenning to Canting (Masterclass)

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Tutor: MacGillivray

Riddlecraft: From Kenning to Canting (Masterclass)

Time-jump a millennium to poetry’s dawn in Anglo-Saxon riddling

Start Date: April 30, 2019
End Date: July 16, 2019 ( 78 Days )
Type: Online

Intermediate Poetry Workshop (Summer 2019)

£171.00 *

Tutor: Tim Dooley

Intermediate Poetry Workshop (Summer 2019)

A weekly workshop for poets looking to develop their individual voice and technique, run by the inimitable Tim Dooley

Start Date: May 1, 2019 2pm
End Date: July 10, 2019 ( 71 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£171.00 *

Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra

Poem, Prompt, Pick & Mix (Summer 2019)

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

Start Date: May 1, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: July 3, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron (Summer 2019)

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Tutor: Mark Waldron

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron (Summer 2019)

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

Start Date: May 1, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: July 3, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Die Like a Wolf: Poetry & the Non-human (Summer 2019)

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Tutor: Suzannah Evans

Die Like a Wolf: Poetry & the Non-human (Summer 2019)

Formulate a new poetic language that transcends the merely human

Start Date: May 1, 2019
End Date: July 10, 2019 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Shazea Quraishi

The Persona Poem (Masterclass)

Say 'Not I!' and unleash hidden multiplicities

Start Date: May 1, 2019
End Date: July 17, 2019 ( 78 Days )
Type: Online

Space, Time: Writing Long Poems & Sequences

£90.00 *

Tutor: Helen Charman

Space, Time: Writing Long Poems & Sequences

Investigate the structural elements of 40 lines or more

Start Date: May 2, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: June 27, 2019 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£171.00 *

Tutor: Meryl Pugh

First Encounters (Summer 2019)

Take your first steps into the world of poetry!

Start Date: May 2, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: July 4, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

'A great, dark, soft thing': Poems of the Night

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Tutor: Anna Veprinska

'A great, dark, soft thing': Poems of the Night

Deep-dive into poetry's dark side

Start Date: May 2, 2019
End Date: July 11, 2019 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Rebecca Watts

Freedom & Form (International)

Discover the levers and mechanisms that power free verse forms

Start Date: May 2, 2019
End Date: July 11, 2019 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Summer 2019)

£171.00 *

Tutor: Richard Price

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Summer 2019)

Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced workshop

Start Date: May 3, 2019 11am
End Date: July 5, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

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Tutor: Heidi Williamson

Fortnightly Feedback (Summer 2019)

Knock those loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback

Start Date: May 3, 2019
End Date: July 12, 2019 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Carrie Etter

Historicising the Prose Poem

Trace the prose poem's origins from Rimbaud to Rankine

Start Date: May 6, 2019
End Date: July 15, 2019 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

We Cannot Stop the Rumbling Trains: Contemporary Chinese Poetry (Transreading) (Summer 2019)

£109.00 *

Tutor: David Tait

We Cannot Stop the Rumbling Trains: Contemporary Chinese Poetry (Transreading) (Summer 2019)

Rejuvenate your poems with a bold, new wave of Chinese voices

Start Date: May 6, 2019
End Date: July 15, 2019 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

£90.00 *

Tutor: Will Harris

Un-Canon/Ca-NON

Explode the established literary canon, and unearth new multiplicities

Start Date: May 7, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: June 27, 2019 ( 52 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Special Guests Tues AM (Summer 2019)

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Tutor: Kathryn Maris

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Special Guests Tues AM (Summer 2019)

One of our flagship advanced workshops, with the added perk of special guests each term.

Start Date: May 7, 2019 11am
End Date: July 9, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

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Tutor: Stav Poleg

In Praise of Complexity

Write poetry that thwarts simplification

Start Date: May 7, 2019
End Date: July 16, 2019 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Ancient Tongues & Hybrid Texts (Online, Summer 2019)

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Tutor: Rowan Evans

Ancient Tongues & Hybrid Texts (Online, Summer 2019)

Respond to ancient languages, folk culture and myth

Start Date: May 8, 2019
End Date: July 17, 2019 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Agnieszka Studzinska

Writing Self in Poetry (International)

Write your self to find yourself

Start Date: May 8, 2019
End Date: July 17, 2019 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Special Guests Thurs PM (Summer 2019)

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Tutor: Kathryn Maris

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Special Guests Thurs PM (Summer 2019)

One of our flagship advanced workshops, with the added perk of special guests each term

Start Date: May 9, 2019 2pm
End Date: July 11, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Choosing Brave: Feminism & the Written Word (International)

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Tutor: Leah Umansky

Choosing Brave: Feminism & the Written Word (International)

Respect existence or expect resistance

Start Date: May 9, 2019
End Date: July 18, 2019 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Sascha Akhtar

Radical Butchery Studio

Liberate your craft by running amok with the editor’s axe

Start Date: May 13, 2019
End Date: June 10, 2019 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

£72.00 *

Tutor: Michael Schmidt

Out for the Count: Syllabics

Work on ‘syllabicising’ poems of your own

Start Date: May 25, 2019 10.30am
End Date: May 25, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£72.00 *

Tutor: Linda Gregerson

Poetic Yield: Masterclass

Take a masterclass in rigorously rewriting and revising your poems

Start Date: June 1, 2019 10.30am
End Date: June 1, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

The Decisive Moment Studio (Summer 2019)

£79.00 *

Tutor: Remi Graves

The Decisive Moment Studio (Summer 2019)

Explore what matters to you most by mining moments of magnitude in your life.

Start Date: June 3, 2019
End Date: July 1, 2019 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

£80.00

Tutor: Linda Gregerson

Poetry Surgery with Linda Gregerson

In-depth 1-2-1 discussion on your poetry with Linda Gregerson

Start Date: June 4, 2019
End Date: June 4, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

WRITE AHEAD: Free Introductory Workshop (Friday 7 June 2019)

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Tutor: Theresa Lola

WRITE AHEAD: Free Introductory Workshop (Friday 7 June 2019)

Want to be a poet? Go Write Ahead.

Start Date: June 7, 2019 7pm
End Date: June 7, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£144.00 *

Tutor: Lucy Mercer

Divine Messengers

Open your poems to the perceptive power of dreams

Start Date: June 8, 2019 10.30am
End Date: June 9, 2019 ( 2 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

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Tutor: Hugo Williams

Poetry Surgery with Hugo Williams

In-depth 1-2-1 discussion on your poetry with Hugo Williams

Start Date: June 15, 2019
End Date: June 15, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£72.00 *

Tutor: Laura Scott

Feel the Fear & Write It Anyway

Take the plunge into the difficult, the dangerous and the daunting

Start Date: June 15, 2019 10.30am
End Date: June 15, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£79.00 *

Tutor: James Nixon

Ghost Writing: Hauntology Studio

Imagine new narratives from history’s spectres

Start Date: June 17, 2019
End Date: July 15, 2019 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Ilya Kaminsky

Poetry Surgery with Ilya Kaminsky

In-depth 1-2-1 discussion on your poetry with Ilya Kaminsky

Start Date: June 22, 2019
End Date: June 22, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£72.00 *

Tutor: Rishi Dastidar

For the Win: The Poetry of Sport

From casual kick-around to serious competition, let adrenaline and athleticism activate your poems

Start Date: June 22, 2019 10.30am
End Date: June 22, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Meeting with Microbes: A Ginkgo Prize Workshop for National Writing Day

£0.00

Tutor: Daisy Lafarge

Meeting with Microbes: A Ginkgo Prize Workshop for National Writing Day

Encounter an ecopoetics of entanglement with bacterial and microbial worlds in this free Ginkgo Prize workshop for National Writing Day.

Start Date: June 26, 2019 18:30
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Hill Street Design House, Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Plant Whispering: A Ginkgo Prize Workshop for National Writing Day

£0.00

Tutor: Jade Cuttle

Plant Whispering: A Ginkgo Prize Workshop for National Writing Day

Investigate the fruitful crossover of poetry and plants in this free Ginkgo Prize workshop to celebrate National Writing Day

Start Date: June 26, 2019 10:30
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

The Carer: Poetry of Private & Public Spaces

£72.00 *

Tutor: Denise Saul

The Carer: Poetry of Private & Public Spaces

How can we reliably provide voices to care-givers and the cared-for?

Start Date: June 29, 2019 10.30am
End Date: June 29, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Parasol Unit Workshop: 'Poetic Demolition' with Martha Sprackland

Tutor: Martha Sprackland

Parasol Unit Workshop: 'Poetic Demolition' with Martha Sprackland

A special Saturday morning poetry workshop and gallery tour to celebrate Parasol Unit's THE SPARK IS YOU exhibition

Start Date: June 29, 2019 10.30am
Type: Events

Another Republic: Learning from Different Traditions

£72.00 *

Tutor: Ilya Kaminsky

Another Republic: Learning from Different Traditions

A special one-day workshop with Ilya Kaminsky

Start Date: July 2, 2019 10.30am
End Date: July 2, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£72.00 *

Tutor: Isabel Galleymore

The Strange Stranger: Animal Poetics

Cultivate creaturely thinking and fathom the human-animal experience

Start Date: July 6, 2019 10.30am
End Date: July 6, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

FREE WORKSHOP: A mountain that is your grief you can’t utter

£0.00

Tutor: Helen Calcutt

FREE WORKSHOP: A mountain that is your grief you can’t utter

A free workshop exploring trauma and grief

Start Date: July 6, 2019 10.30am
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Poetry Playback: 'Vertigo & Ghost' by Fiona Benson

Tutor: Fiona Benson

Poetry Playback: 'Vertigo & Ghost' by Fiona Benson

A feature-length reading of 'Vertigo & Ghost' by Fiona Benson

Start Date: July 11, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: July 11, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Events

Hydro Lyric: Water & the Self in Contemporary Poetry

£35.00 *

Tutor: Samantha Walton

Hydro Lyric: Water & the Self in Contemporary Poetry

What does it mean to think, write and co-exist with water? Explore how we relate to each other through this most primal element, and experiment with writing your own hydro-lyrics.

Start Date: July 15, 2019 10.30am
End Date: July 15, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£35.00 *

Tutor: Inua Ellams

Poetry & Profanity

Get profane with Inua Ellams to learn how four letter expletives can actually enrich your writing.

Start Date: July 15, 2019 2.00pm
End Date: July 15, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Problematic Poets: Interrogating our Influences

£35.00 *

Tutor: Anthony Anaxagorou

Problematic Poets: Interrogating our Influences

Is the author really dead? Consider what there is to learn from historical poets who would fall below the ethical standards of today.

Start Date: July 16, 2019 10.30am
End Date: July 16, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£35.00 *

Tutor: Jamie McKendrick

Beyond the Literal: Poetry Translation

Push beyond the ‘literal’ with Jamie McKendrick to get first-hand experience of poetry translation

Start Date: July 16, 2019 2.00pm
End Date: July 16, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£35.00 *

Tutor: Tim Atkins

Constraints & Play

Get playful with Tim Atkins and learn how ludic games and constraints can enrich your writing.

Start Date: July 17, 2019 10.30am
End Date: July 17, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Unpacking the Six Pack: Writing Masculinity, Sport & Body Image

£35.00 *

Tutor: Lewis Buxton

Unpacking the Six Pack: Writing Masculinity, Sport & Body Image

Bro, do you even lyric? Debunk received ideas on masculinity and get your poems buff.

Start Date: July 17, 2019 2.00pm
End Date: July 17, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Vanishing Point: Personae & Perspective?

£35.00 *

Tutor: Emily Critchley

Vanishing Point: Personae & Perspective?

Break out of the first person and create dynamic poems from new perspectives

Start Date: July 18, 2019 10.30am
End Date: July 18, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£35.00 *

Tutor: Karen McCarthy Woolf

A Love Supreme: Music as Muse & Mentor

Explore poetry’s relationship with music to push your work into fresh and unexpected directions.

Start Date: July 18, 2019 2.00pm
End Date: July 18, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£35.00 *

Tutor: Francesca Lisette

Draw Down The Stars

Work with astrological archetypes for poetic insight and liberation

Start Date: July 19, 2019 10.30am
End Date: July 19, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£35.00 *

Tutor: Sophie Robinson

Poetry as Alchemy

Pen your Magnum Opus as you transmute the lead of the everyday into poetic gold.

Start Date: July 19, 2019 2.00pm
End Date: July 19, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

WRITE AHEAD: Free Introductory Workshop (Friday 27 September 2019)

£0.00

Tutor: Joey Connolly

WRITE AHEAD: Free Introductory Workshop (Friday 27 September 2019)

Want to be a poet? Go Write Ahead.

Start Date: September 27, 2019 7pm
End Date: September 27, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

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