Poetry Courses • Poetry School

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Tutor: Susan Wicks

Susan Wicks Kent Seminar 2018

Intimate monthly seminars with Susan Wicks in Kent.

Start Date: September 21, 2018 10am
End Date: May 3, 2019 ( 225 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location:

Imaginary Spaces: A Sculptor’s Kit for Poets (Masterclass)

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Tutor: Eric Berlin

Imaginary Spaces: A Sculptor’s Kit for Poets (Masterclass)

Shape bold new poems under the mastery of the great sculptors

Start Date: September 24, 2018
End Date: December 17, 2018 ( 85 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Remi Graves

The Decisive Moment Studio

Explore what matters to you most by mining moments of magnitude in your life.

Start Date: September 24, 2018
End Date: October 22, 2018 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese

Transreading Russia

Celebrate present-day Russia through its poetry, and create your own new translations and trans-readings

Start Date: September 25, 2018
End Date: December 4, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Integrated Circuits: Creating Digital Poetry

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Tutor: Maya Chowdhry

Integrated Circuits: Creating Digital Poetry

Leap from page to screen and create interactive poems fit for our digital age

Start Date: September 25, 2018
End Date: December 4, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Seán Hewitt

The God in the Forest: Nature Mysticism

Awaken the mysterious, divine power of rocks, rivers, birds, trees, ourselves

Start Date: September 26, 2018
End Date: December 5, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Conscious Tracks: British Modernism (Masterclass)

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Tutor: Peter Hughes

Conscious Tracks: British Modernism (Masterclass)

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

Start Date: September 26, 2018
End Date: December 19, 2018 ( 85 Days )
Type: Online

Please – No More Poetry: Postmemory & Historical Trauma

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Tutor: Anna Veprinska

Please – No More Poetry: Postmemory & Historical Trauma

How do we write responsibly about our intergenerational traumas?

Start Date: September 27, 2018
End Date: December 6, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Writing on the Cusp of Becoming Something Else (International)

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Tutor: J. R. Carpenter

Writing on the Cusp of Becoming Something Else (International)

Incorporate variability, instability, transformation, and change into your writing process

Start Date: September 27, 2018
End Date: December 6, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Degna Stone

Fortnightly Feedback with Degna Stone

Knock those loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback

Start Date: September 28, 2018
End Date: December 7, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Poems of Love, Poems of Praise (International, Autumn 2018)

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Tutor: Zeina Hashem Beck

Poems of Love, Poems of Praise (International, Autumn 2018)

Choose love, write against brokenness and towards the idea of praise

Start Date: October 1, 2018
End Date: December 10, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith

Pamphlet / Portfolio (Autumn 2018)

Take your work to the next level and develop your portfolio with Wayne Holloway-Smith

Start Date: October 1, 2018 6:45pm
End Date: December 3, 2018 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

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Tutor: Shazea Quraishi

The Poet’s Toolkit (Autumn 2018)

Explore poetry's inner workings, hone your craft, and take a close look at various forms and techniques to help your poems achieve lift-off.

Start Date: October 1, 2018 6:45pm
End Date: December 3, 2018 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Tell Me About a Complicated Man: Poetry Inspired by 'The Odyssey'

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Tutor: Stav Poleg

Tell Me About a Complicated Man: Poetry Inspired by 'The Odyssey'

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

Start Date: October 2, 2018
End Date: December 11, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

We Cannot Stop the Rumbling Trains: Contemporary Chinese Poetry (Transreading)

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Tutor: David Tait

We Cannot Stop the Rumbling Trains: Contemporary Chinese Poetry (Transreading)

Rejuvenate your poems with a bold, new wave of Chinese voices

Start Date: October 2, 2018
End Date: December 11, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Philip Gross

Philip Gross Hereford Seminar 2018

Intimate monthly seminars with Philip Gross in Hereford, organised in partnership with Ledbury Poetry Festival.

Start Date: October 2, 2018 5:45pm
End Date: May 7, 2019 ( 218 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location: The Courtyard, Hereford, Hereford

Accidents of Gain: Reading C20th American Poetry

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Tutor: Chris McCabe

Accidents of Gain: Reading C20th American Poetry

A reading course looking at the breadth of 20th century American poetry.

Start Date: October 2, 2018 6:45pm
End Date: December 4, 2018 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

On Noticing and Startling: The Short Story (Autumn 2018)

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Tutor: Eley Williams and David Hayden

On Noticing and Startling: The Short Story (Autumn 2018)

Study with two celebrated writers, to learn the various poetic techniques that can also be used in writing short fiction.

Start Date: October 2, 2018 6:45pm
End Date: November 27, 2018 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Special Guests Tues AM (Autumn 2018)

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Tutor: Kathryn Maris

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Special Guests Tues AM (Autumn 2018)

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

Start Date: October 2, 2018 11am
End Date: December 11, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Short Short Fiction: The Tiniest of Stories

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Tutor: Tania Hershman

Short Short Fiction: The Tiniest of Stories

What can poets learn from short fiction, and vice-versa?

Start Date: October 3, 2018
End Date: December 12, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Possibilities of the Line (International)

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Tutor: Jennifer Wong

Possibilities of the Line (International)

Going back-to-basics-and-beyond with the essential unit of poetry

Start Date: October 3, 2018
End Date: December 12, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Alice Kavounas

Alice Kavounas Penzance Seminar 2018

Intimate monthly seminars with Alice Kavounas in Penzance.

Start Date: October 3, 2018 10:15 am
End Date: May 1, 2019 ( 211 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location: Morrab Library, Penzance

Intermediate Poetry Workshop (Autumn 2018)

£171.00 *

Tutor: Tim Dooley

Intermediate Poetry Workshop (Autumn 2018)

A weekly workshop for poets looking to develop their individual voice and technique, run by the inimitable Tim Dooley.

Start Date: October 3, 2018 2pm
End Date: December 12, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

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Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra

Poem, Prompt, Pick & Mix (Autumn 2018)

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

Start Date: October 3, 2018 6:45pm
End Date: December 5, 2018 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Sasha Dugdale (Autumn 2018)

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Tutor: Sasha Dugdale

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Sasha Dugdale (Autumn 2018)

Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced workshop with Sasha Dugdale.

Start Date: October 3, 2018 6.45pm
End Date: December 12, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

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Tutor: Chen Chen

The Art of Telling (International)

Tell, don't show, with multiloquent new work

Start Date: October 4, 2018
End Date: December 13, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Against English: Dialects, Distortions and New Vocabularies

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Tutor: Harry Giles

Against English: Dialects, Distortions and New Vocabularies

Write against English, take it apart, and explode language altogether

Start Date: October 4, 2018
End Date: December 13, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

2 x Greta Stoddart Bridport Seminars 2018

£240.00 *

Tutor: Greta Stoddart

2 x Greta Stoddart Bridport Seminars 2018

Intimate monthly seminars with Greta Stoddart in Bridport.

Start Date: October 4, 2018 10am or 1:30pm
End Date: May 2, 2019 ( 211 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location: The Bull Hotel, Bridport

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Special Guests Thurs PM (Autumn 2018)

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Tutor: Kathryn Maris

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Special Guests Thurs PM (Autumn 2018)

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

Start Date: October 4, 2018 2pm
End Date: December 13, 2018 ( 71 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£240.00 *

Tutor: Steve Spence

Steve Spence Plymouth Seminar 2018

Intimate monthly seminars with Steve Spence in Plymouth.

Start Date: October 4, 2018 6:30pm
End Date: May 2, 2019 ( 211 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location: Quaker House, Plymouth, Plymouth

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Autumn 2018)

£171.00 *

Tutor: Richard Price

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Autumn 2018)

Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced workshop with Richard Price

Start Date: October 5, 2018 11am
End Date: December 7, 2018 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Saturday Sessions with Ros Barber (Autumn 2018)

£177.00 *

Tutor: Ros Barber

Saturday Sessions with Ros Barber (Autumn 2018)

Monthly all-day Saturday workshops with Ros Barber.

Start Date: October 6, 2018 10.30am
End Date: December 1, 2018 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£90.00 *

Tutor: Sally Flint

‘Cradle to Grave': The Journey

Move chronologically through life's journey with Sally Flint, learning how to capture the significant moments in new and original poems.

Start Date: October 8, 2018 6:45pm
End Date: December 3, 2018 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Exeter Community Centre, Exeter

2 x Jacqueline Saphra London Seminars 2018

£240.00 *

Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra

2 x Jacqueline Saphra London Seminars 2018

Intimate monthly seminars with Jacqueline Saphra in London.

Start Date: October 9, 2018 7pm
End Date: May 9, 2019 ( 213 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location:

£90.00 *

Tutor: Joey Connolly

Fuck Lyric: Politics and Poetic Form

Join the fight and write new, original poems in support of poetry's resistance against conservative conformity

Start Date: October 9, 2018 6.45pm
End Date: December 4, 2018 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£185.00 *

Tutor: Myra Schneider

Read to Write with Myra Schneider 2018

A monthly group for intermediate writers of poetry and prose, providing detailed feedback and discussion in each session.

Start Date: October 10, 2018 7:45pm
End Date: June 5, 2018
Type: Seminar • Location: 130 Morton Way, London

£90.00 *

Tutor: Rowan Evans

Ancient Tongues & Hybrid Texts

Expand your writing between voices and across centuries to explore how poetry can respond to ancient languages, folk culture and myth,.

Start Date: October 10, 2018 6:45pm
End Date: December 5, 2018 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Hours, Bristol

£240.00 *

Tutor: Greta Stoddart

2 x Greta Stoddart Exeter Seminars 2018

Intimate monthly seminars with Greta Stoddart in Exeter.

Start Date: October 10, 2018 10am or 1:30pm
End Date: May 22, 2019 ( 225 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location: Exeter Community Centre, Exeter

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Tutor: Tamar Yoseloff

4 x Tamar Yoseloff London Seminars 2018

Intimate monthly seminars with Tamar Yoseloff in London.

Start Date: October 10, 2018 1, 2, or 6:30pm
End Date: June 19, 2019 ( 253 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location:

£171.00 *

Tutor: Meryl Pugh

First Encounters (Autumn 2018)

Take your first steps into the world of poetry!

Start Date: October 11, 2018 6:45pm
End Date: December 13, 2018 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

So Many Blood-Lakes: Ecological Nightmares Studio

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Tutor: André Naffis-Sahely

So Many Blood-Lakes: Ecological Nightmares Studio

Write poems about our increasingly perilous natural world

Start Date: October 15, 2018
End Date: November 12, 2018 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Jacqui Rowe

Jacqui Rowe Birmingham Seminar 2018

Intimate monthly seminars with Jacqui Rowe in Birmingham.

Start Date: October 16, 2018 6:30pm
End Date: May 21, 2019 ( 218 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location: Polish Millennium House, Birmingham

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Tutor: Antony Dunn

Antony Dunn Leeds Seminar 2018

Intimate monthly seminars with Antony Dunn in Leeds.

Start Date: October 17, 2018 6:15pm
End Date: May 15, 2019 ( 211 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location: Yorkshire Dance, Leeds, Leeds

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Tutor: Antony Dunn

Antony Dunn York Seminar 2018

Intimate monthly seminars with Anthony Dunn in York.

Start Date: October 18, 2018 6:15pm
End Date: May 16, 2019 ( 211 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location: Friargate Theatre, York, York

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Tutor: Heidi Williamson

Heidi Williamson Wymondham Seminar 2018

Intimate monthly seminars with Heidi Williamson in Wymondham.

Start Date: October 27, 2018 1:30pm
End Date: May 25, 2019 ( 211 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location: Wymondham Heritage Museum, Norfolk

£72.00 *

Tutor: Linda Black

Working with Collage

Explore collage and re-appropriation with Linda Black, learning how these processes can create exciting and original poems of your own.

Start Date: October 27, 2018 10.30am
End Date: October 27, 2018 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Taking Your Writing Further with Myra Schneider 2018

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Tutor: Myra Schneider

Taking Your Writing Further with Myra Schneider 2018

Myra Schneider's flagship monthly poetry group with detailed feedback and discussion in each session.

Start Date: October 30, 2018 1:30pm
End Date: July 23, 2019 ( 267 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location: 130 Morton Way, London

£144.00 *

Tutor: Steven J Fowler

Mondo: The Global Avant-Garde

Journey through a world of avant-garde poetry over this jam-packed weekend with SJ Fowler.

Start Date: November 3, 2018 10.30am
End Date: November 4, 2018 ( 2 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

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Tutor: MacGillivray

Skeleton Alphabet Studio

Put your poems on the anatomist's slab and sing the body electric

Start Date: November 5, 2018
End Date: December 3, 2018 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

Poetry Playback: Vahni Capildeo reads ‘Venus as a Bear’

Tutor: Vahni Capildeo

Poetry Playback: Vahni Capildeo reads ‘Venus as a Bear’

A feature-length reading of 'Venus as a Bear' from Vahni Capildeo

Start Date: November 8, 2018
Type: Events

£90.00 *

Tutor: Adam Feinstein

Poetry & Cinema

Explore the potent connections between poetry and cinema with acclaimed translator and film critic Adam Feinstein

Start Date: November 8, 2018 6:45pm
End Date: December 6, 2018 ( 29 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Parasol Unit Workshop: 'Peeling' with Rachel Long

Tutor: Rachel Long

Parasol Unit Workshop: 'Peeling' with Rachel Long

A special Saturday morning poetry workshop and gallery tour to celebrate Parasol Unit's Heidi Bucher exhibition

Start Date: November 10, 2018 10.30am
Type: Events

Poem of the Air: Marina Tsvetaeva Translation Weekend

£144.00 *

Tutor: Sasha Dugdale

Poem of the Air: Marina Tsvetaeva Translation Weekend

Get up close and personal with the extraordinary work of Marina Tsvetaeva, working with her previously-untranslated 'Poem of the Air'.

Start Date: November 10, 2018 10.30am
End Date: November 11, 2018 ( 2 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

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Tutor: Ali Lewis (The Poetry School)

WRITE AHEAD: Free Introductory Workshop

Want to be a poet? Go Write Ahead.

Start Date: November 16, 2018 7pm
End Date: November 16, 2018 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£72.00 *

Tutor: Joe Dunthorne

The Portable Generator

Join this intensive writing day with acclaimed novelist and Faber poet, Joe Dunthorne!

Start Date: November 17, 2018 10.30am
End Date: November 17, 2018 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

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Tutor: Caleb Parkin

Thingly Power: (In)Animate Studio

Discover your sensuous side and write poems exploring the radiant materiality of curious objects

Start Date: November 19, 2018
End Date: December 17, 2018 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

The Big Idea: Building The Sonnet Sequence

£72.00 *

Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra

The Big Idea: Building The Sonnet Sequence

What could be better than a sonnet? A sonnet sequence!

Start Date: November 24, 2018 10.30am
End Date: November 24, 2018 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£72.00 *

Tutor: Miriam Darlington

The Spell of the Sensuous

Use your senses to bring poems alive.

Start Date: December 1, 2018 10.30am
End Date: December 1, 2018 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

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