Extra Summer sessions of Antony Dunn's intimate monthly seminars.


For more information and FAQs about how our courses work, please go to our In-Person Courses, Video Courses and Online Courses pages.
Extra Summer sessions of Antony Dunn's intimate monthly seminars.
Play with, and question, the notion of mistranslation to rethink what it means to communicate through poetry.
Explore the important topic of migration, learning how poetry can be the perfect vehicle to tell stories of movement, settlement, and belonging.
In-depth 1-2-1 discussion on your poetry with poet and editor Romalyn Ante.
Take up a torch and join us as we explore the elemental power of fire as destroyer, life-giver, and re-inventor in your writing.
Explore the relationship between language, space, and silence and see what happens when we let some air into our poems.
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