Courses

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: May 9, 2020 ( 85 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online • Location: The Pen Museum, Birmingham

£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: May 9, 2020 ( 78 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online • Location: Hours, Bristol

£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

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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: 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

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: April 18, 2020 10.30am
End Date: April 18, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online • Location: Poetry School, London

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Tutor: Seán Hewitt

Poetry Surgery with Seán Hewitt

In-depth 1-2-1 discussion on your poetry with Seán Hewitt

Start Date: April 24, 2020
End Date: April 24, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online • Location: Poetry School, London

Poetic Artifice: Writing With & Against Veronica Forrest-Thomson (Masterclass)

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Tutor: Will Harris

Poetic Artifice: Writing With & Against Veronica Forrest-Thomson (Masterclass)

Explore, and argue with, Veronica Forrest-Thomson’s seminal 'Poetic Artifice', as a means for investigating and expanding your own poetic practice.

Start Date: May 4, 2020
End Date: August 3, 2020 ( 92 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Jodie Hollander

Why Rhyme? (Masterclass)

Who's afraid of traditional rhyme?

Start Date: May 5, 2020
End Date: August 4, 2020 ( 92 Days )
Type: Online

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron (Summer 2020)

£180.00 *

Tutor: Mark Waldron

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron (Summer 2020)

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

Start Date: May 6, 2020 6.45pm
End Date: July 8, 2020 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

‘Where I’m From’: Poetry & Place (Masterclass)

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Tutor: Jonathan Edwards

‘Where I’m From’: Poetry & Place (Masterclass)

Use poetry to sing, celebrate, curse, and investigate place.

Start Date: May 6, 2020
End Date: August 5, 2020 ( 92 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Meryl Pugh

First Encounters (Summer 2020)

Take your first steps into the world of poetry!

Start Date: May 7, 2020 6.45pm
End Date: July 9, 2020 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Tell Me True: Poetry of Testimony, Memory, & the Archive (Masterclass)

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Tutor: Kate Potts

Tell Me True: Poetry of Testimony, Memory, & the Archive (Masterclass)

Explore poetry’s power to re-present testimony, tell the truth, and draw attention to voices that might otherwise remain unheard.

Start Date: May 7, 2020
End Date: August 6, 2020 ( 92 Days )
Type: Online

May the Verse be with You: Poetry Inspired by Star Wars

£75.00 *

Tutor: Chrissy Williams

May the Verse be with You: Poetry Inspired by Star Wars

Odes to the moon are something of a poetic cliché these days. But is the same true when that moon is a space station...?

Start Date: May 9, 2020 10.30am
End Date: May 9, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£95.00 *

Tutor: Liz Berry

Transformative Poetry

Transform yourself and the world around you through the power of poetry.

Start Date: May 9, 2020 12pm
End Date: July 18, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Pen Museum, Birmingham

Fortnightly Feedback with Kirsten Irving

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Tutor: Kirsten Irving

Fortnightly Feedback with Kirsten Irving

Knock those loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback.

Start Date: May 10, 2020
End Date: July 26, 2020 ( 78 Days )
Type: Online

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Special Guests (Summer 2020)

£180.00 *

Tutor: Kathryn Maris

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Special Guests (Summer 2020)

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

Start Date: May 11, 2020 2.00pm
End Date: July 20, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£180.00 *

Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith

What Now? (Summer 2020)

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

Start Date: May 11, 2020 6.45pm
End Date: July 13, 2020 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£180.00 *

Tutor: Shazea Quraishi

The Poet’s Toolkit (Summer 2020)

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

Start Date: May 11, 2020 6.45pm
End Date: July 20, 2020 ( 71 Days )
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 11, 2020 19:00
End Date: July 20, 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: May 11, 2020
End Date: July 20, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

How Poetry Can Serve Death: Memento Mori & Vanitas Studio

£79.00 *

Tutor: Sascha Akhtar

How Poetry Can Serve Death: Memento Mori & Vanitas Studio

Like love and sex, death is one of the great mysteries; meditate on the many approaches to the topic and develop exciting new work of your own in this field.

Start Date: May 11, 2020
End Date: June 8, 2020 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

Tell Me About a Complicated Man: Poetry Inspired by The Odyssey (International)

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Tutor: Stav Poleg

Tell Me About a Complicated Man: Poetry Inspired by The Odyssey (International)

Re-imagine Homer's cast of Olympians, sea-monsters, Lotus Eaters and mere humans with Emily Wilson’s ground-breaking new translation.

Start Date: May 12, 2020
End Date: July 21, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

£95.00 *

Tutor: Jennie Osborne

Voices of the Sea

Join us on a voyage into the blue, as we dive to the Marianas Trench, spot white whales, and attempt to clean up the Pacific trash vortex.

Start Date: May 12, 2020 7pm
End Date: July 7, 2020 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Exeter Community Centre, Exeter

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Tutor: Clare Pollard

Transreading Endangered Languages

Explore writing in endangered languages, consider the politics of translation, and push your own poetry in completely new directions.

Start Date: May 12, 2020
End Date: July 21, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Suzannah Evans

The Long Now: Poetry of Deep Time

Set your clock to slow geological time and use poetry to explore the far future and the deep past.

Start Date: May 13, 2020 7pm
End Date: July 22, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: David Tait

Odes to the Ordinary (International)

Find beauty in the commonplace and inspiration in the everyday to write meaningfully about our lives.

Start Date: May 13, 2020
End Date: July 22, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Intermediate Poetry Workshop (Summer 2020)

£180.00 *

Tutor: Tim Dooley

Intermediate Poetry Workshop (Summer 2020)

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

Start Date: May 13, 2020 2.00pm
End Date: July 15, 2020 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£180.00 *

Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra

Creative Constraint (Summer 2020)

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

Start Date: May 13, 2020 6.45pm
End Date: July 15, 2020 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

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Tutor: Seán Hewitt

Queer Natures (International)

Explore the political and bodily implications of nature’s variety, and see how poets have sought out queerness, and even eroticism, in the natural world.

Start Date: May 14, 2020
End Date: July 23, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Please – No More Poetry: Postmemory & Historical Trauma

£109.00 *

Tutor: Anna Veprinska

Please – No More Poetry: Postmemory & Historical Trauma

How do we write responsibly about our intergenerational traumas?

Start Date: May 14, 2020 19:00
End Date: July 23, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

£75.00 *

Tutor: Eleanor Penny

Out of the Wreckage

Come root in Davy Jones’s locker for nautical inspiration, exploring wreckage, ghost ships, and missing histories.

Start Date: May 16, 2020 10.30am
End Date: May 16, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Saturday Sessions with Ros Barber (Summer 2020)

£177.00 *

Tutor: Ros Barber

Saturday Sessions with Ros Barber (Summer 2020)

Monthly all-day Saturday workshops with Ros Barber.

Start Date: May 16, 2020 10.30am
End Date: July 11, 2020 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£95.00 *

Tutor: Becky Varley-Winter

The Many Voices of Poetry

Examine poetry’s many different voices to see how your own can shift, change and fluctuate for different effects.

Start Date: May 21, 2020 6.45pm
End Date: July 16, 2020 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Transreading Historical Sources: Hack the Stories Apart!

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Tutor: Anna Kisby

Transreading Historical Sources: Hack the Stories Apart!

Explore historical sources to write your own history-poems and give voice to past stories that may go unheard.

Start Date: May 21, 2020
End Date: July 30, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Summer 2020)

£180.00 *

Tutor: Richard Price

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Summer 2020)

Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced workshop

Start Date: May 22, 2020 11.00am
End Date: July 24, 2020 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£75.00 *

Tutor: Ali Lewis

Stealing, Copying, & Arguing

Get light-fingered and argumentative with other artists to take your own writing to new places.

Start Date: May 23, 2020 10.30am-4.30pm
End Date: May 23, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Lying Holds the Pleasure / of Ruining a Form

£75.00 *

Tutor: Elaine Kahn

Lying Holds the Pleasure / of Ruining a Form

Engage in lies and deceit to push poetic forms beyond their limits and unlock the explosive power of your writing.

Start Date: May 30, 2020 10.30am-4.30pm
End Date: May 30, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

’The Ladder is always There’ – What makes a Feminist Poem?

£95.00 *

Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra

’The Ladder is always There’ – What makes a Feminist Poem?

Spend June reading and discussing a huge range of feminist poetry. Expect to be surprised, infuriated, and inspired.

Start Date: June 2, 2020 6.45pm
End Date: June 30, 2020 ( 29 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£75.00 *

Tutor: Meena Kandasamy

Writing Love in a Second Language

Explore the effects of living, and writing, between multiple languages.

Start Date: June 6, 2020 10.30am-4.30pm
End Date: June 6, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

‘The Gaps Between the Stories’: White Space, Redaction, & Erasure

£75.00 *

Tutor: Tamar Yoseloff

‘The Gaps Between the Stories’: White Space, Redaction, & Erasure

Explore visual techniques and play with omissions, erasure, and negative space to expand your poetic practice.

Start Date: June 13, 2020 10.30am-4.30pm
End Date: June 13, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Euphony: Poetic Sound & the Subconscious

£75.00 *

Tutor: Martha Sprackland

Euphony: Poetic Sound & the Subconscious

Listen to your poems’ concerto of sounds as a way to explore their subconscious drives.

Start Date: June 20, 2020 10.30am-4.30pm
End Date: June 20, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

‘I knew what was going to happen and I was right’: Poetry & TV Studio

£79.00 *

Tutor: Jenna Clake

‘I knew what was going to happen and I was right’: Poetry & TV Studio

We hear Netflix are scouting for the next great sonnet series.

Start Date: June 23, 2020
End Date: July 21, 2020 ( 29 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: June 26, 2020
End Date: June 26, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Fighting the Tyrant: A Political & Personal Weekend

£150.00 *

Tutor: Leah Umansky

Fighting the Tyrant: A Political & Personal Weekend

Move between the personal and political to explore the power of poetry in fighting tyrants.

Start Date: June 27, 2020 10.30am-4.30pm
End Date: June 28, 2020 ( 2 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£95.00

Tutor: Leah Umansky

Poetry Surgery with Leah Umansky

In-depth 1-2-1 discussion on your poetry with Leah Umansky

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

Beyond Ekphrasis: Poetry & Visual Art Studio

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Tutor: Sam Buchan-Watts

Beyond Ekphrasis: Poetry & Visual Art Studio

Push beyond descriptive writing to explore alternative techniques to engaging with visual art in your poetry.

Start Date: July 8, 2020
End Date: August 5, 2020 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

£150.00 *

Tutor: sjfowler

The Language Art: Modern Art & Poetry

Explore the intersections between the post-war traditions of modern art and avant-garde poetry.

Start Date: July 11, 2020 10.30am-4.30pm
End Date: July 12, 2020 ( 2 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Magic Weekender: the Poet as Seer, Witch, & Shaman

£150.00 *

Tutor: Sascha Akhtar

Magic Weekender: the Poet as Seer, Witch, & Shaman

Explore ancient notions in contemporary times and write new poems as a seer, magi, witch, healer, and shaman.

Start Date: July 18, 2020 10.30am-4.30pm
End Date: July 19, 2020 ( 2 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£100.00 *

Tutor: Ben See and Guest Tutors

Where Words Meet Music

Put a spring in your step with this brand new 6-week course exploring the relationship between words and music.

Start Date: September 29, 2020 7–9.30pm
End Date: November 3, 2020 ( 36 Days )
Type: Events, 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: November 7, 2020 10.30am
End Date: November 8, 2020 ( 2 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

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