Courses

Creative Constraint (Spring 2020)

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

Start Date: January 15, 2020 6.45pm
End Date: March 18, 2020 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£109.00 *

Tutor: Rhys Trimble

Processual Poetry & Dérive

Take a poem out for a (random) walk

Start Date: January 20, 2020
End Date: March 30, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Poetry as Ferocity: Writing Your Truth with Radical Honesty (Masterclass, Spring 2020)

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Tutor: Shivanee Ramlochan

Poetry as Ferocity: Writing Your Truth with Radical Honesty (Masterclass, Spring 2020)

Fiercely exceed the fetters of self-censorship

Start Date: January 20, 2020
End Date: April 13, 2020 ( 85 Days )
Type: Online

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Special Guests (Spring 2020)

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Tutor: Kathryn Maris

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Special Guests (Spring 2020)

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

Start Date: January 20, 2020 2.00pm
End Date: March 23, 2020 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

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Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith

What Now? (Spring 2020)

Take the next steps in your poetry career and explore contemporary poetry’s cutting-edge

Start Date: January 20, 2020 6.45pm
End Date: March 23, 2020 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

The Poet’s Toolkit with Special Guests (Spring 2020)

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Tutor: Shazea Quraishi

The Poet’s Toolkit with Special Guests (Spring 2020)

Hone your craft, explore poetry’s inner workings, and look at techniques to help your poems achieve lift-off

Start Date: January 20, 2020 6.45pm
End Date: March 30, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Reading Course: Those Various Scalpels - Four Modernist Women

£180.00 *

Tutor: Matthew Caley

Reading Course: Those Various Scalpels - Four Modernist Women

Smash the patriarchy and bring light to the exceptional work of some major female Modernists.

Start Date: January 21, 2020 6.45pm
End Date: March 24, 2020 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Transreading Classical Languages (Transreading, Spring 2020)

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Tutor: Wanda O’Connor

Transreading Classical Languages (Transreading, Spring 2020)

Compose fresh responses to Ancient Greek and Latin texts and fragments

Start Date: January 21, 2020
End Date: March 31, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: JR Carpenter

Code Poetry (Masterclass)

Delve into dots, dashes, bots, and glitch

Start Date: January 21, 2020
End Date: April 14, 2020 ( 85 Days )
Type: Online

£109.00 *

Tutor: Denise Saul

In The Same House: Poetry of Caregiving

Give voice to the unspoken poetry of caregiving

Start Date: January 22, 2020
End Date: April 1, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Conscious Tracks: British Modernism (Masterclass, Spring 2020)

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Tutor: Peter Hughes

Conscious Tracks: British Modernism (Masterclass, Spring 2020)

Excavate from the language hoard of radical, underground and late modernist British poetry

Start Date: January 22, 2020
End Date: April 15, 2020 ( 85 Days )
Type: Online

Intermediate Poetry Workshop (Spring 2020)

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Tutor: Tim Dooley

Intermediate Poetry Workshop (Spring 2020)

Tim Dooley’s weekly workshop for poets looking to develop their individual voice and technique

Start Date: January 22, 2020 2.00pm
End Date: April 1, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron (Spring 2020)

£180.00 *

Tutor: Mark Waldron

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron (Spring 2020)

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

Start Date: January 22, 2020 6.45pm
End Date: April 1, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

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Tutor: Meryl Pugh

First Encounters (Spring 2020)

Take your first steps into the world of poetry!

Start Date: January 23, 2020 6.45pm
End Date: March 26, 2020 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£95.00 *

Tutor: Andy Brown

Uses of the Past

“I'm never going back, the past is in the past” – Elsa of Arendelle

Start Date: January 23, 2020 7pm
End Date: March 19, 2020 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Exeter Community Centre, Exeter

£109.00 *

Tutor: Remi Graves

Claiming the Margin as Centre

Centering our various marginalised identities

Start Date: January 23, 2020
End Date: April 2, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Love & Bondage in Contemporary Times (International)

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Tutor: Sascha Akhtar

Love & Bondage in Contemporary Times (International)

New perspectives on love and pain in the 21st century

Start Date: January 23, 2020
End Date: April 2, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese

"Leave the door open for the unknown": Transreading Rebecca Solnit

Find your citizen’s place in conversation and collaboration with others

Start Date: January 23, 2020
End Date: April 2, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

£109.00 *

Tutor: Ira Lightman

Poetry as Oral Storytelling

Develop your poetry through traditional storytelling techniques

Start Date: January 24, 2020
End Date: April 3, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

£179.00 *

Tutor: Richard Georges

An Exploration of Ecstasy (Masterclass)

Tune into the inner truth of the ecstatic

Start Date: January 24, 2020
End Date: April 17, 2020 ( 85 Days )
Type: Online

Fortnightly Feedback with Paul Stephenson

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Tutor: Paul Stephenson

Fortnightly Feedback with Paul Stephenson

Knock those loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback

Start Date: January 24, 2020
End Date: April 10, 2020 ( 78 Days )
Type: Online

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Spring 2020)

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Tutor: Richard Price

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Spring 2020)

Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced workshop

Start Date: January 24, 2020 11.00am
End Date: March 27, 2020 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Verse Drama After Shakespeare: Writing Poetic Plays Today

£75.00 *

Tutor: Richard O'Brien

Verse Drama After Shakespeare: Writing Poetic Plays Today

Calling poets, playwrights, and Shakespeare-lovers! Join us for an exciting exploration of verse drama and learn how to use these techniques in your own poetic and theatrical writing.

Start Date: January 25, 2020 10.30am
End Date: January 25, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

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Tutor: Callie Gardner

The Poetic-Critical (International)

Writing the poem-essay, and other forms of lyric commentary

Start Date: January 27, 2020
End Date: April 6, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Poetics of Space after Bachelard (International)

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Tutor: Agnieszka Studzinska

Poetics of Space after Bachelard (International)

Seek poetry in the intimate spaces in our lives

Start Date: January 27, 2020
End Date: April 6, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Love Calls Us to the Things of This World: Sacramental Imagination Studio

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Tutor: Maria Apichella

Love Calls Us to the Things of This World: Sacramental Imagination Studio

Write poems on the edge of the visible and invisible

Start Date: January 27, 2020
End Date: February 24, 2020 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Phoebe Power

Write Now: Poetry in 2020

Take inspiration from poets writing right now

Start Date: January 27, 2020
End Date: April 6, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

£95.00 *

Tutor: Adam Feinstein

"Between the shadow & the soul": Exploring Latin American Poetry

Sweep through a breadth of Latin American poetry under the expert eye of Pablo Neruda’s acclaimed biographer and translator.

Start Date: January 28, 2020 6.45pm
End Date: March 24, 2020 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Extrasensory Perceptions: Fortean Poetry (International)

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Tutor: Caleb Parkin

Extrasensory Perceptions: Fortean Poetry (International)

Channel poems from phenomena just beyond our understanding

Start Date: January 28, 2020
End Date: April 7, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Radical Resistances: Writing Against Sense

£95.00 *

Tutor: Mischa Foster Poole

Radical Resistances: Writing Against Sense

Join the avant-garde, issue a radical challenge to sense, and interrogate the nature of meaning in poetry.

Start Date: January 30, 2020 6.45pm
End Date: March 26, 2020 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

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Tutor: Katharine Kilalea

Poetry Surgery with Katharine Kilalea

In-depth 1-2-1 discussion on your poetry with Katharine Kilalea

Start Date: January 30, 2020
End Date: January 30, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

WRITE AHEAD: Free Introductory Workshop (Friday 31st January)

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Tutor: Chrissy Williams

WRITE AHEAD: Free Introductory Workshop (Friday 31st January)

Want to be a poet? Go Write Ahead.

Start Date: January 31, 2020 7pm
End Date: January 31, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£109.00 *

Tutor: Natasha Hakimi Zapata

"The bravest people on earth": On Displacement

Reflect on home, exile, journeys, war and humanity

Start Date: January 31, 2020
End Date: April 9, 2020 ( 70 Days )
Type: Online

Saturday Sessions with Ros Barber (Spring 2020)

£177.00 *

Tutor: Ros Barber

Saturday Sessions with Ros Barber (Spring 2020)

Monthly all-day Saturday workshops with Ros Barber

Start Date: February 1, 2020 10.30am
End Date: March 28, 2020 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Writing the Self: Performance & Sacrifice

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Tutor: Nisha Ramayya

Writing the Self: Performance & Sacrifice

Explore what it means to perform aspects of the self in your poetry and discuss what is lost, gained, and – potentially – transformed in the process.

Start Date: February 1, 2020 10.30am
End Date: February 1, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Her Voracious Stare: Inspiration from the Eye & Art of Dora Maar

£150.00 *

Tutor: Rachel Long

Her Voracious Stare: Inspiration from the Eye & Art of Dora Maar

Get inspired with a day at the Tate Modern before coming together to workshop new poems a month later.

Start Date: February 9, 2020 10.30am
End Date: March 15, 2020 ( 36 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location:

£150.00 *

Tutor: Hannah Lowe

X-Lit: Ways into Memoir

An intensive weekend exploring life writing with acclaimed poet and memoirist Hannah Lowe.

Start Date: February 15, 2020 10.30am
End Date: February 16, 2020 ( 2 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Joy in the Detail: Editing as a Creative Process

£95.00 *

Tutor: Jane Commane

Joy in the Detail: Editing as a Creative Process

Develop your critical confidence and acquire a veritable poet’s toolkit of skills to become your best self-editor with the editor-in-chief at Nine Arches Press.

Start Date: February 15, 2020 12pm
End Date: April 11, 2020 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Pen Museum, Birmingham

£79.00 *

Tutor: Silvia Gradinaru

Poetry & Advertising Studio

Where art meets advertising

Start Date: February 17, 2020
End Date: March 16, 2020 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

£95.00 *

Tutor: Jonathan Edwards

"The Wild"

Take a walk on the wild side to explore the extraordinary power that animals can bring into your poems.

Start Date: February 22, 2020 12pm
End Date: April 18, 2020 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Hours, Bristol

Parasol unit Workshop: A Ballad of Transformation

Tutor: Ella Frears

Parasol unit Workshop: A Ballad of Transformation

Move through time with poet and visual artist Ella Frears

Start Date: February 29, 2020 10.30am
End Date: February 29, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location:

£75.00 *

Tutor: Sean O'Brien

In My Beginning is My End: Masterclass

Head to the moon with Sean O’Brien and consider which parts of your poems should be jettisoned into the vacuum of space.

Start Date: February 29, 2020 10.30am
End Date: February 29, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

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Tutor: Maurice Riordan

Poetry Surgery with Maurice Riordan

In-depth 1-2-1 discussion on your poetry with Maurice Riordan

Start Date: February 29, 2020
End Date: February 29, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£79.00 *

Tutor: Leah Umansky

Only Love Studio (Spring 2020)

Write poems straight from the heart

Start Date: March 9, 2020
End Date: April 6, 2020 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

This Goes There, That Comes After: List Poems

£75.00 *

Tutor: James Davies

This Goes There, That Comes After: List Poems

Get things in order and explore the many uses of the list form with James Davies.

Start Date: March 14, 2020 10.30am
End Date: March 14, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Window, Mirror, Knife, Disaster, & Reinvention: Poetry of Glass

£75.00 *

Tutor: Judy Brown

Window, Mirror, Knife, Disaster, & Reinvention: Poetry of Glass

Wipe off your monocle, have your glass armonica tuned, move the tomatoes into the greenhouse, and smash the glass ceiling with Judy Brown.

Start Date: March 14, 2020 10.30am
End Date: March 14, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£150.00 *

Tutor: Antosh Wojcik

Soundtext Weekender

An immersive weekender of sound experimentation and text generation.

Start Date: March 21, 2020 10.30am
End Date: March 22, 2020 ( 2 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£79.00 *

Tutor: Abi Palmer

"I am the shape of my seams": Out-of-Body Experience Studio

Explore where literary practice meets out-of-body experience

Start Date: March 23, 2020
End Date: April 19, 2020 ( 28 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Mary Jean Chan

Poetry Surgery with Mary Jean Chan

In-depth 1-2-1 discussion on your poetry with Mary Jean Chan

Start Date: March 27, 2020
End Date: March 27, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

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Tutor: Liz Berry

Try a Little Tenderness: Masterclass

If we must first write from the heart in order to write poems for the heart, how do we begin this tender work?

Start Date: March 28, 2020 10.30am
End Date: March 28, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

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