Poetry Courses • Poetry School

Tutor: Ali Lewis (The Poetry School)

WRITE AHEAD: Free Introductory Workshop

Want to be a poet? Go Write Ahead.

Start Date: March 22, 2019 7pm
End Date: March 22, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Calling Forth: Direct Address / Apostrophe

£72.00 *

Tutor: Phillis Levin

Calling Forth: Direct Address / Apostrophe

Explore the power of the vocative or direct address in poetry

Start Date: March 23, 2019 10.30am
End Date: March 23, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

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Tutor: Patrick Wright

Pareidolia Studio

Unlock the potential of your surroundings with creative mis-perception

Start Date: March 25, 2019
End Date: April 22, 2019 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

Riddle of the Sphinx: Poetry and the Mysterious

£35.00 *

Tutor: Lavinia Singer

Riddle of the Sphinx: Poetry and the Mysterious

Write along the edges of the unexplainable

Start Date: April 10, 2019 10.30am
End Date: April 10, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£35.00 *

Tutor: Jade Cuttle

Life-Cycles

Submit your poems to rhythms of the natural world

Start Date: April 10, 2019 2pm
End Date: April 10, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Beg, Borrow, Steal: Quotation, Allusion and Intertextuality

£35.00 *

Tutor: Helen Charman

Beg, Borrow, Steal: Quotation, Allusion and Intertextuality

Learn how to lovingly ‘lift’ new material from old

Start Date: April 11, 2019 10.30am
End Date: April 11, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£35.00 *

Tutor: Keiran Goddard

Pop, Prophecy and the Profane

Explore the rhythms of speech, prayer and prophecy, from nineties pop to Pablo Neruda

Start Date: April 11, 2019 2pm
End Date: April 11, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£26.25 *

Tutor: Sean Wai Keung

Eat Your Words: Poetry and Food

Enhance your poems with roast beef, cheesecake, and a bottle of Chablis

Start Date: April 12, 2019 10.30am
End Date: April 12, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£35.00 *

Tutor: Ed Luker

Poetry and Violence

Compose ways of confronting acts of violence

Start Date: April 12, 2019 2pm
End Date: April 12, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£35.00 *

Tutor: James Harding

Typography for Poets

Finesse the poem-on-the-page, from ascender to descender

Start Date: April 13, 2019 10.30am
End Date: April 13, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Bodies and Botanies in Contemporary Experimental Poetry

£26.25 *

Tutor: Srishti Krishnamoorthy-Cavell

Bodies and Botanies in Contemporary Experimental Poetry

Write the poem botanical, from queer florality to trees bearing witness

Start Date: April 13, 2019 2pm
End Date: April 13, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Speaking Laban’s Colours: Breath and Rhythm

£35.00 *

Tutor: Dzifa Benson

Speaking Laban’s Colours: Breath and Rhythm

Use the language of movement to 'speak' your poem

Start Date: April 14, 2019 10.30am
End Date: April 14, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£35.00 *

Tutor: Nasser Hussain

Patterned Language

Prime your poems with the pulse of pattern

Start Date: April 14, 2019 2pm
End Date: April 14, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

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

£108.00 *

Tutor: Fiona Benson

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

£67.50 *

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

Saturday Sessions with Ros Barber (Summer 2019)

£177.00 *

Tutor: Ros Barber

Saturday Sessions with Ros Barber (Summer 2019)

Monthly all-day Saturday workshops with Ros Barber

Start Date: April 27, 2019 10.30am
End Date: June 29, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£171.00 *

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

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

Inclined to Change: Improv for Poets (Masterclass)

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Tutor: Eric Berlin

Inclined to Change: Improv for Poets (Masterclass)

Stretch your poetic reflexes and exert your sense of play

Start Date: April 29, 2019
End Date: July 22, 2019 ( 85 Days )
Type: Online

£128.25 *

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)

£109.00 *

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)

£179.00 *

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 23, 2019 ( 85 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)

£171.00 *

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)

£109.00 *

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 24, 2019 ( 85 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

£109.00 *

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

WRITE AHEAD: Free Introductory Workshop (Friday 3 May 2019)

£0.00

Tutor: Bridget Minamore

WRITE AHEAD: Free Introductory Workshop (Friday 3 May 2019)

Want to be a poet? Go Write Ahead.

Start Date: May 3, 2019 7pm
End Date: May 3, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

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

£72.00 *

Tutor: Jean Sprackland

Mapping Our Lost Haunts

Rediscover the dens, playgrounds and treehouses of your childhood

Start Date: May 4, 2019 10.30am
End Date: May 4, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

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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

£67.50 *

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

£109.00 *

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)

£109.00 *

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)

£109.00 *

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

Extrasensory Perceptions: Fortean Poetry

£108.00 *

Tutor: Caleb Parkin

Extrasensory Perceptions: Fortean Poetry

Channel poems from phenomena just beyond our understanding

Start Date: May 11, 2019 10.30am
End Date: May 12, 2019 ( 2 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£72.00 *

Tutor: Marilyn Hacker

Translating Form (Masterclass)

How do non-native forms adapt to the English language?

Start Date: May 11, 2019 10.30am
End Date: May 11, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£79.00 *

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

£108.00 *

Tutor: Ahren Warner

Go With the Flow

Shake up your poems with speed, flow and swerve

Start Date: May 18, 2019 10.30am
End Date: May 19, 2019 ( 2 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£54.00 *

Tutor: Katrina Naomi

The Big Issues

Tackle the pressing topics of the day and produce new poetry

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

£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

£67.50 *

Tutor: Elizabeth Parker

Poetry for Change (Bristol)

Create poems that are a force for good

Start Date: May 28, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: July 23, 2019 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Hours, Bristol

£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

£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

£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

£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

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

£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

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