Courses

£250.00 – £260.00 *

Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra

Jacqueline Saphra London Seminars

Intimate monthly seminars with Jacqueline Saphra in London.

Start Date: September 8, 2020 6.30pm
End Date: April 13, 2021 ( 218 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location:

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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: September 12, 2020 10.30am
End Date: October 3, 2020 ( 22 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online • Location: Poetry School, London

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Tutor: Rebecca Watts

Poetry Surgery with Rebecca Watts

In-depth 1-2-1 discussion on your poetry with Rebecca Watts.

Start Date: September 13, 2020 10.30am
End Date: September 13, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

Poetic Artifice: Writing With & Against Veronica Forrest-Thomson (Masterclass, Autumn 2020)

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Tutor: Will Harris

Poetic Artifice: Writing With & Against Veronica Forrest-Thomson (Masterclass, Autumn 2020)

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

Start Date: September 14, 2020
End Date: December 14, 2020 ( 92 Days )
Type: Online

Smears & Caresses: The Poetry of Abstract Art (Masterclass, Autumn 2020)

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Tutor: Peter Hughes

Smears & Caresses: The Poetry of Abstract Art (Masterclass, Autumn 2020)

Create poems inspired by the most exciting art of the past century

Start Date: September 15, 2020
End Date: December 15, 2020 ( 92 Days )
Type: Online

Evicting the Body from its Home: The Work of Paul Celan (Masterclass)

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Tutor: Sarah Byrne

Evicting the Body from its Home: The Work of Paul Celan (Masterclass)

Take inspiration from Paul Celan to explore the complex topics of home, refuge, and eviction in your poetry.

Start Date: September 16, 2020
End Date: December 16, 2020 ( 92 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Rachael Allen

Fortnightly Feedback with Rachael Allen

Knock those loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback.

Start Date: September 25, 2020
End Date: December 11, 2020 ( 78 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Liz Berry

Transformative Poetry

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

Start Date: September 26, 2020 12pm
End Date: December 5, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

£75.00 *

Tutor: Meena Kandasamy

Writing Love in a Second Language

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

Start Date: September 26, 2020 10.30am-4.30pm
End Date: October 17, 2020 ( 22 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou (Autumn 2020)

£180.00 *

Tutor: Anthony Anaxagorou

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou (Autumn 2020)

Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in one of our flagship advanced workshops, led by Anthony Anaxagorou.

Start Date: September 28, 2020 2.00pm
End Date: November 30, 2020 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

£180.00 *

Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith

What Now? (Autumn 2020)

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

Start Date: September 28, 2020 6.45pm
End Date: November 30, 2020 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Shazea Quraishi (Autumn 2020)

£180.00 *

Tutor: Shazea Quraishi

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Shazea Quraishi (Autumn 2020)

Develop your writing through discussion, feedback, and writing prompts in this advanced workshop with Shazea Quraishi.

Start Date: September 28, 2020 6.45pm
End Date: December 7, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

Hell & Back: Writing Addiction & Recovery (International, Autumn 2020)

£109.00 *

Tutor: Keith Hutson

Hell & Back: Writing Addiction & Recovery (International, Autumn 2020)

Explore how we can write compellingly about addiction with Laureate’s Choice poet, Keith Hutson.

Start Date: September 28, 2020
End Date: December 7, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Speaking as a Multitude: Long Poems & Sequences

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Tutor: Phoebe Power

Speaking as a Multitude: Long Poems & Sequences

Break out of compact discrete lyric poetry and explode into the fragments and multiplicities of long poems and sequences.

Start Date: September 28, 2020 7pm
End Date: December 7, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Jennifer Wong

Time Travel Studio

Experiment with poetry’s power to reshuffle, reorient, and return to different temporal moments.

Start Date: September 29, 2020
End Date: October 27, 2020 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Ben See and Guest Tutors

Where Words Meet Music

Put a spring in your step with this 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:

Cinema of Dreams: Fellini & Poetry (International)

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Tutor: Stav Poleg

Cinema of Dreams: Fellini & Poetry (International)

Walk the streets of Cinecittà and find inspiration in the cinema of Fellini as we experiment with dreams and memories, alongside fictional and theatrical scenes in our own poetry.

Start Date: September 29, 2020
End Date: December 8, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

'The most intimate act of reading': Translating Poetry & the Politics of the Personal (Transreading)

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Tutor: Sophie Collins

'The most intimate act of reading': Translating Poetry & the Politics of the Personal (Transreading)

Develop your poetry translation practice with exciting poet and translator Sophie Collins.

Start Date: September 29, 2020
End Date: December 8, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Intermediate Poetry Workshop (Autumn 2020)

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Tutor: Tim Dooley

Intermediate Poetry Workshop (Autumn 2020)

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

Start Date: September 30, 2020 2.00pm
End Date: December 9, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

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Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra

Creative Constraint (Autumn 2020)

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

Start Date: September 30, 2020 6.45pm
End Date: December 2, 2020 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron (Autumn 2020)

£180.00 *

Tutor: Mark Waldron

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron (Autumn 2020)

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

Start Date: September 30, 2020 6.45pm
End Date: December 2, 2020 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

Retropoetics: Four Billion Years of Inspiration (Autumn 2020)

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Tutor: Rebecca Watts

Retropoetics: Four Billion Years of Inspiration (Autumn 2020)

Adventure away from personal experience and delve into the treasure chest of history

Start Date: September 30, 2020
End Date: December 9, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

The Pleasure Principle: Poetry & The Wild Culture of 'Want' (International)

£109.00 *

Tutor: Elena Byrne

The Pleasure Principle: Poetry & The Wild Culture of 'Want' (International)

Dive deep into the language of 'want' in your poetry and explore desire’s integral role in forming culture, identity, and creative authentic tools for survival.

Start Date: September 30, 2020
End Date: December 9, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Meryl Pugh

First Encounters (Autumn 2020)

Take your first steps into the world of poetry!

Start Date: October 1, 2020 6.45pm
End Date: December 3, 2020 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

£250.00 *

Tutor: Greta Stoddart

Greta Stoddart Bridport Seminars

Intimate monthly seminars with Greta Stoddart in Bridport.

Start Date: October 1, 2020 10am, 1.30pm, & 2pm
End Date: April 29, 2021 ( 211 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location: The Bull Hotel, Bridport

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

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Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra

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

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

Start Date: October 1, 2020 6.45pm
End Date: November 26, 2020 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online • Location: Poetry School, London

Multilingual Poetry from Shakespeare Outwards (Transreading)

£109.00 *

Tutor: David Caddy

Multilingual Poetry from Shakespeare Outwards (Transreading)

Explore the transgressive practices of Multilingual Poetry, taking inspiration from Shakespeare to contemporary writers, to resist monoculturalism!

Start Date: October 1, 2020
End Date: December 10, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Autumn 2020)

£180.00 *

Tutor: Richard Price

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Autumn 2020)

Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced workshop with prize-winning poet, Richard Price.

Start Date: October 2, 2020 11.00am
End Date: December 4, 2020 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

£250.00 *

Tutor: Susan Wicks

Susan Wicks Kent Seminar

Intimate monthly seminars with Susan Wicks in Kent.

Start Date: October 2, 2020 10am
End Date: May 7, 2021 ( 218 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location:

Saturday Sessions with Ros Barber (Autumn 2020)

£177.00 *

Tutor: Ros Barber

Saturday Sessions with Ros Barber (Autumn 2020)

Monthly all-day Saturday workshops with Ros Barber.

Start Date: October 3, 2020 10.30am
End Date: December 5, 2020 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

£250.00 *

Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith

Wayne Holloway-Smith London Seminars

Intimate monthly seminars with Wayne Holloway-Smith in London.

Start Date: October 3, 2020 11am
End Date: May 15, 2021 ( 225 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location:

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Tutor: Kathryn Simmonds

Against the Grain (International)

Learn where your resistances are and try working against them. Who knows what will happen?

Start Date: October 5, 2020
End Date: December 14, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Tamar Yoseloff

Read & Respond (Autumn 2020)

Join MA tutor Tamar Yoseloff for a close examination of many styles and approaches to hone your skills and bring your poetry to new and exciting places!

Start Date: October 6, 2020 6.45pm
End Date: December 8, 2020 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

£250.00 *

Tutor: Greta Stoddart

Greta Stoddart Kilmington Seminar

Intimate monthly seminars with Greta Stoddart in Kilmington, near Axminster.

Start Date: October 6, 2020 1 & 2pm
End Date: April 27, 2021 ( 204 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location: Beacon Baptist Church, Kilmington, Kilmington

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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: October 6, 2020 7pm
End Date: December 1, 2020 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

£250.00 *

Tutor: Philip Gross

Philip Gross in Hereford Seminar

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

Start Date: October 6, 2020 5.45pm
End Date: May 4, 2021 ( 211 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location: Poetry School, LondonThe Courtyard, Hereford, Hereford

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Tutor: Rhys Trimble

Poetry & Eclogue: Ritual Ecopoetics

Journey from bucolics to contemporary writing to explore experimental Ecopoetry’s radical possibilities.

Start Date: October 6, 2020 7pm
End Date: December 15, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

American Poetry of the ‘San Francisco Renaissance’ (International)

£109.00 *

Tutor: Wanda O’Connor

American Poetry of the ‘San Francisco Renaissance’ (International)

Travel to mid-century California to take influence and inspiration from the ‘San Francisco Renaissance’.

Start Date: October 6, 2020
End Date: December 15, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

£260.00 *

Tutor: Alice Kavounas

Alice Kavounas Penzance Seminar

Intimate monthly seminars with Alice Kavounas in Penzance

Start Date: October 7, 2020 10.15am
End Date: May 5, 2021 ( 211 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location: Morrab Library, Penzance

£260.00 *

Tutor: Antony Dunn

Antony Dunn Yorkshire Seminars

Intimate monthly seminars with Antony Dunn in Leeds and York.

Start Date: October 7, 2020 6.15pm
End Date: May 13, 2021 ( 219 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location:

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Tutor: Daisy Lafarge

The Perpetual Latin of Love

Find inspiration in the language of science and organisational systems to create innovative new poetry.

Start Date: October 7, 2020 7pm
End Date: December 16, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

£250.00 *

Tutor: Shazea Quraishi

Shazea Quraishi London Seminars

Intimate monthly seminars with Shazea Quraishi in London and Zoom.

Start Date: October 8, 2020 6.30pm
End Date: May 20, 2021 ( 225 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location:

To Be Here & There Simultaneously: Poems for/from Our Migratory Selves (Transreading)

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Tutor: Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese

To Be Here & There Simultaneously: Poems for/from Our Migratory Selves (Transreading)

Remain foreign to yourself and explore the liminal space between locution and location in your writing.

Start Date: October 8, 2020
End Date: December 17, 2020 ( 71 Days )
Type: Online

Writing Dystopia / Building a Dystopian World

£75.00 *

Tutor: Jennifer Wong

Writing Dystopia / Building a Dystopian World

Can poetry lead us out of dystopia and help to present the truth about our current times?

Start Date: October 10, 2020 10.30am
End Date: October 10, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online • Location: Poetry School, London

£250.00 *

Tutor: John Greening

John Greening Cambridge Seminar

Intimate monthly seminars with John Greening in Cambridge.

Start Date: October 10, 2020 10.30am
End Date: May 15, 2021 ( 218 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location: Michaelhouse Centre, Cambridge

£250.00 *

Tutor: Greta Stoddart

Greta Stoddart Exeter Seminars

Intimate monthly seminars with Greta Stoddart in Exeter.

Start Date: October 13, 2020 12, 2, & 3.30pm
End Date: May 19, 2021 ( 219 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location: Exeter Community Centre, Exeter

£250.00 *

Tutor: Jacqui Rowe

Jacqui Rowe Birmingham Seminar

Intimate monthly seminars with Jacqui Rowe in Birmingham.

Start Date: October 13, 2020 5.45pm
End Date: May 18, 2021 ( 218 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location:

£250.00 *

Tutor: Tamar Yoseloff

Tamar Yoseloff London Seminars

Intimate monthly seminars with Tamar Yoseloff in London.

Start Date: October 14, 2020 1, 6.15, & 6.30pm
End Date: June 16, 2021 ( 246 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location:

£200.00

Tutor: Glyn Maxwell

Glyn Maxwell MA Graduate Seminar

Monthly seminars in London for graduates of our MA in Writing Poetry.

Start Date: October 14, 2020 12pm
End Date: June 9, 2021 ( 239 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location: Poetry School, London

£250.00 *

Tutor: Heidi Williamson

Heidi Williamson Wymondham Seminar

Intimate monthly seminars with Heidi Williamson in Wymondham.

Start Date: October 17, 2020 1.15pm
End Date: May 22, 2021 ( 218 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location: Wymondham Heritage Museum, Norfolk

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

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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: October 17, 2020 10.30am-4.30pm
End Date: October 17, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online • Location: Poetry School, London

£200.00

Tutor: Tamar Yoseloff

Tamar Yoseloff MA Graduate Seminar

Monthly seminars in London for graduates of our MA in Writing Poetry.

Start Date: October 21, 2020 1.30pm
End Date: June 16, 2021 ( 239 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location:

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Tutor: Mona Arshi

Ghazal Masterclass with Mona Arshi

Join Mona Arshi for a detailed exploration of one of the world’s most ancient poetic forms.

Start Date: October 24, 2020 10.30am
End Date: November 28, 2020 ( 36 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online

£95.00

Tutor: Astrid Alben

Poetry Surgery with Astrid Alben

In-depth 1-2-1 discussion on your poetry with Astrid Alben.

Start Date: October 24, 2020 10.30am
End Date: October 24, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face, Online • Location: Poetry School, London

Taking Your Writing Further with Myra Schneider

£350.00 *

Tutor: Myra Schneider

Taking Your Writing Further with Myra Schneider

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

Start Date: October 27, 2020 6.30pm
End Date: July 20, 2021 ( 267 Days )
Type: Seminar • Location:

“GRRR, ARGGH”: Poems Inspired by Buffy the Vampire Slayer

£75.00 *

Tutor: Chrissy Williams

“GRRR, ARGGH”: Poems Inspired by Buffy the Vampire Slayer

A day of writing new poems – the ultimate Buffy fandom / poetry / Halloween crossover event!

Start Date: October 31, 2020 10.30am
End Date: October 31, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

£100.00 *

Tutor: Nina Powles

Language Diaries (Studio+)

Traverse the shifting path to fluency and explore language’s connection to selfhood, before creating your own mini zine.

Start Date: November 2, 2020
End Date: December 7, 2020 ( 36 Days )
Type: Online

Arrange, Layer, Combine: Poetry & Collage Studio

£79.00 *

Tutor: Zakia Carpenter-Hall

Arrange, Layer, Combine: Poetry & Collage Studio

Get tactile and explore poetry as a kind of architecture.

Start Date: November 4, 2020
End Date: December 2, 2020 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

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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

Window, Mirror, Knife, Disaster, & Reinvention: Poetry of Glass

£75.00 *

Tutor: Judy Brown

Window, Mirror, Knife, Disaster, & Reinvention: Poetry of Glass

Wipe off your monocle, have your glass armonica tuned, move the tomatoes into the greenhouse, and smash the glass ceiling with Judy Brown.

Start Date: November 14, 2020 10.30am
End Date: November 14, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Voicing Public Emotion: Poetry & Politics

£75.00 *

Tutor: Carmen Bugan

Voicing Public Emotion: Poetry & Politics

Move between the public and private in this day of political poetic writing.

Start Date: November 14, 2020 10.30am
End Date: November 14, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London

Poetry as Revelation Studio: Divine Inspiration & Disclosure

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Tutor: Sascha Akhtar

Poetry as Revelation Studio: Divine Inspiration & Disclosure

Reclaim the revelationary language of priestesses, goddesses, and divinities.

Start Date: November 16, 2020
End Date: December 14, 2020 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

£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: November 21, 2020 10.30am-4.30pm
End Date: November 21, 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: November 28, 2020 10.30am-4.30pm
End Date: November 28, 2020 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Poetry School, London