Opening up the under-recognised poetries of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia
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Tutor: Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese
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Tutor: Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese
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Tutor: Gloria Dawson
Writing as Wanting: Desire Studio
Explore the boundaries of writing from, about and naming desire
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Tutor: Eric Berlin
Fortnightly Feedback with Eric Berlin
Knock those loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback
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Tutor: David Tait
Tales from the World City (International, Summer 2018)
Dive into dark alleyways, discovering poetry and prose that has been inspired by some of the greatest cities in the world
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Tutor: Liane Strauss
Eternal Sunshine: The Elements of Poetic Language (Masterclass)
A lyrical look at feeling, forgetting, intuition, image, and seeing the world in a totally new way
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Tutor: Suzannah Evans
Die Like A Wolf: Writing the Non-Human
Formulate a new poetic language that transcends the merely human
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Tutor: Peter Hughes
Smears & Caresses: The Poetry of Abstract Art (International)
Create poems inspired by the most exciting art of the past century
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Tutor: Rachel Piercey
Two for Joy: Happy Poems
The radical art of writing defiantly happy poems
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Tutor: Nisha Ramayya
Decolonising Translation: Poetry, Power, Relation, and Difference (Transreading)
If translation is a movement, who is permitted to cross?
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Tutor: Leah Umansky
Fully Automated Radical Pessimism (International)
Writing after and against the new dystopian
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Tutor: Sarah Byrne
The Opposite House: But We Never Go In That Room!
Play congenial hosts to your psychoanalytical ‘opposites’
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Tutor: Will Harris
More Life: Philosophy as Poetry (Summer 2018)
Use philosophical concepts to sharpen your poetry, and poetry to bring those concepts to life
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Tutor: Richard Georges
Discovering the Divine (International)
How can poetry help us discover the ecstatic in the everyday?
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Tutor: Adam Crothers
Each Thing’s a Thief: Memory, Theft and Tradition (International, Summer 2018)
Avoid plagiarism, but explore the creative activity of appropriation and "stealing"
£90.00 *
Tutor: Matti Spence
Poetics of Presence (Exeter)
Learn to practise poetry as a method of deep-listening and an expansion of how you experience the present moment.
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Tutor: Christina Thatcher
Taboo: Saying the Unsaid
Confront forbidden topics through a literary lens
£90.00 *
Tutor: Samantha Walton
Ecopoetry, Environmentalism and Activism (Bristol)
Explore poetry’s power to engage with environmental issues and imagine new ecological futures.
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Tutor: Jennifer Wong
At Risk: Going Somewhere Different in Poetry (Summer 2018)
How can poetry speak to us if it does not take risks, say something bold and new, make adventurous leaps with language and form?
£177.00 *
Tutor: Ros Barber
Saturday Sessions with Ros Barber (Summer 2018)
Monthly all-day Saturday workshops with Ros Barber.
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Tutor: Jason Schneiderman
Sestina Insanity Studio
Conquering the complex, elaborate, diabolical sestina
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Tutor: Heidi Williamson
Thrill River Studio
A moving body, the veins of nature, the flow of life - a river runs through all of us
Aldeburgh Festival Bandstand on the Beach: Helen Ivory and Martin Figura
Join the Poetry School at the Aldeburgh Festival Bandstand on the Beach for a fantastic free reading by Helen Ivory and Martin Figura.
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Tutor: Tamar Yoseloff
The New York Influence 2: Basquiat and Jazz Poetry
Take inspiration from Basquiat, Langston Hughes and Frank O’Hara, and use their improvisatory and collaborative energy to create new poems.
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Tutor: Vahni Capildeo
Centring Our Environments
A free workshop to celebrate National Writing Day, and the launch of our Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry.
£144.00 *
Tutor: Jen Calleja
Creative Translation
Learn how to apply the tools of translation and transform other texts and art forms into poetry.
£79.00 *
Tutor: James Davies
Archiving Your Self Yourself: Quantified Self Studio
Archive, document and catalogue carefully selected moments of your life past, present and future
£80.00
Tutor: Jericho Brown
Poetry Surgery with Jericho Brown
Book a one-to-one feedback session with visiting American poet Jericho Brown!
£35.00 *
Tutor: Peter Kahn
Fresh Words from America: Exploring the Hottest Contemporary American Poetry
Discover the freshest talent from across the Atlantic with celebrated poet, educator and anthologist Peter Kahn.
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Tutor: Nuar Alsadir
Resonance & Redistribution: Masterclass with Nuar Alsadir
Get inspired with Nuar Alsadir and learn how to follow the unconscious impulses of your early drafts.
£59.00 *
Tutor: Peter Sansom
Manchester Saturday Sessions (July 2018)
One of three all-day workshop sessions with the Sansoms in Manchester.
£72.00 *
Tutor: Rebecca Goss
Literary Locomotion: The Poetry of Movement
Explore poems on the pleasures and pains of bodily effort.
£35.00 *
Tutor: A.K. Blakemore
Portrait of the Artist As a Horse: Animal Transformation in Poetry
Learn what it means to be human by exploring the playful and grotesque potential of animal iconography, and the chimeric possibilities of the poetic form with A.K. Blakemore.
£35.00 *
Tutor: Sunayana Bhargava and Rhondda Rhiannon
'She Whom the Moon Ruled': Astrophysics, Astrology & Poetry
Get your telescopes ready to explore the universe with an astrophysicist and consider your place among the stars to inspire new poems of your own.
£35.00 *
Tutor: George Szirtes
Form And Microform: The Cinquain & the Three-Part Poem
Look at the minutiae and delicate balances of short-form poetry, exploring how the demands of form can liberate the imagination and refine the ear.
£35.00 *
Tutor: Matthew Welton
"The Phrase"
Explore how phrases can form a vital part of your poetry toolkit, and how deploying a choice phrase can inject something unique into your poems.
£35.00 *
Tutor: Will Harris
The Ethics of Perspective
Explore the art, artifice and ethics of bearing witness and taking up other's perspectives in your poetry.
£35.00 *
Tutor: Amaal Said and Momtaza Mehri
Seeing & Being Seen: Poetry, Photography & The Gaze
Get into, and out of, the frame and explore what it is to see, and be seen, in both poetry and photography.
£35.00 *
Tutor: Keith Jarrett
Ritual, Belief & Poetry
Investigate the world of rituals, ranging from the everyday to the unusual, and learn how to use these as stepping-off points for new poems.
£35.00 *
Tutor: Belinda Zhawi
Sonic Healing: Poems of Loss
Explore the different facets of mourning, and learn how to harness these experiences to create exciting, healing and sonorous new work.
£35.00 *
Tutor: Theresa Lola
Poetry & Fashion
Explore how the textures of fashion and poetry intertwine, before using clothing as stimulus to generate new poems.
£35.00 *
Tutor: Rachel Long
Irreverent Womyn
Explore the importance of irreverence in contemporary poetry, before writing some impudent poems of your own.
£10.00
Tutor: Pascale Petit
Towards a Collection
The aim of this course is to give guidance and advice towards compiling a collection and getting it published. This could be your first full-length book, a pamphlet, or an application for an Eric Gregory Award.
£15.00
Tutor: Graham Fawcett
Poetry & Autobiography
Poetry is revelation, but poets do not necessarily reveal themselves or tell us their life-stories in their poetry.
£15.00
Tutor: Tamar Yoseloff
Routes into Poetry
For beginners (but not absolute beginners!) and intermediate writers who want to explore some definitions of poetry; and to start some structured learning about rhyme, metre, verse forms, lineation and stanzas.
£10.00
Tutor: Nigel Forde
How to Write Poetry
A grounding in the basics for new writers, this course works through ten lessons exploring some of the traditions of poetry writing, an introduction to form and metre, and tips to develop intense, precise and significant poems.