Intimate seminars with Jacqueline Saphra in London & on Zoom.


For more information and FAQs about how our courses work, please go to our In-Person Courses, Video Courses and Online Courses pages.
Intimate seminars with Jacqueline Saphra in London & on Zoom.
Join us for a day in December writing new poems inspired by the classic Christmas movie DIE HARD. Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs…
Explore the potential for poetics to transform bodily experience into new creative work.
Join us for this mini-beast masterclass, where we'll explore what benefits insects can bring to your poems' ecosystems.
Richness in the routine – extraordinary poetry from the everyday.
Our weekly workshop for intermediate poets looking to develop their work.
Challenge yourself, elevate your writing, and take the next steps in your poetry career.
Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou.
Knock your loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback from Forward Prize-nominated poet, Kandace Siobhan Walker.
Bring your writing to the next level and explore contemporary poetry’s cutting-edge.
Encounter and experiment with the essayistic, as we blend poetry, memoir, and criticism to create radical new forms.
Mine the magical in modern and historic poetry; creating your own personal poetic of myth.
Take inspiration from one of the UK's most innovative and exciting poetry publishers.
Spark your creativity and take your first steps into the world of poetry!
An exciting new advanced workshop group with the much-loved Rachel Long and the benefit of special guest tutors each term.
Hone your craft, explore poetry’s inner workings, and look at techniques to help your poems achieve lift-off.
Our long-running weekly workshop with Tim Dooley, for poets looking to develop their individual voice and technique.
An advanced weekly workshop group with the inimitable Mark Waldron.
Find the forms, craft and confidence to think through pretence, fraudulence and personae.
Croeso! Welcoming the new Welsh poetic; beyond the classics.
Writing rites of passage; take inspiration from the teenaged and developmental for new coming-of-age poems.
Join this group for rigorous discussion of your writing with acclaimed poet Richard Price.
Monthly all-day Saturday workshops with Ros Barber.
Find form and freedom in the famous fourteen.
An exciting new advanced workshop group with the innovative Astrid Alben.
Discover and be inspired by Chilean greats in both English, y en Español.
Capture the essential poetics of place; making writing the local natural.
Romancing the poem for the anthropocene.
Long reads – fathoming the deeply written.
Formally fruity; throw out your preconceptions and embrace the experimental.
Connecting the performative to your poetic, inspired by innovative contemporary practitioners.
Transread the poetry of the possible through lingual plurality.
Enquiries into the ecological – researching poetic responses to academic studies on the environment.
Playing with Prose; peer into, and produce your own, prose poetic.
Mix up your writing, and learn new skills and techniques with Jacqueline Saphra.
Get inside circular forms to see why repeating yourself can be a useful poetic technique.
In-depth 1-2-1 discussion on your poetry with poet and tutor Rebecca Watts.
The splendidly soggy: writing the wondrous of the wild and the wet.
Move between the personal and political to explore the power of poetry in fighting tyrants.
It’s a fish, smoking a cigar, next to a glass of wine.
Heavy lifting; poetry working with pain and purpose.
A day for poets to explore music and musicality, and what it can mean within your own writing.
Keepsakes from over there; capturing the foreign without the fake.
The Poetry School’s teaching year runs over three ‘terms’ – Autumn, Spring and Summer. Each term we offer around 40-50 courses and workshops that cater to a variety of levels, varying in length and subject matter. The course programme changes every term with more new courses, workshops and tutors, but often includes courses that run over three terms and popular repeats.
We offer both ‘classroom’ teaching (UK) and ‘virtual’ teaching (international). You can visit our In-Person Courses, Video Courses and Online Courses pages for more detailed information about course structures, process and what to expect.
Most of our courses and workshops accommodate writers with a wide range of experience, but some are specifically designed for beginners or more practicised poets.
Here are our definitions:
Our programme is developed around these three teaching levels, although we also offer many courses that are Open to all – courses aimed at all levels, often focusing on a specific theme or inspirational subject matter.
‘Literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm’ – OED
‘Poetry is a heightened imagistic use of language that does things to the heart and head’ – Grace Nichols
‘A made thing, a verbal construct, an event in language’ – Edward Hirsch
‘Poetry is memorable speech’ – W H Auden
‘Poetry does not explain life. It gives life to feeling and seeing’ – Sarah Stetie
‘Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not’ – Samuel Johnson