Courses

Inhale and exhale as we explore poetry that challenges, surprises, and catches our breath, and write of breath’s force and beauty.

Join us to create community through writing, as we explore that difficult topic of loneliness.

Write new poems in response to John Ashbery’s ‘Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror’.

Make space for gratitude and hope in these trying times as we explore poetry’s power for appreciation.

Consider how musicality can create poetic meaning and sound can work as a gateway to the senses.

Knock your loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback from poet and editor, Leah Umansky.

Get inside circular forms to see why repeating yourself can be a useful poetic technique.

Flex your imagination and push your craft as we explore the art of poetic storytelling.

Explore Oulipean constraints to shake up your writing practice.

Join us to explore the gristly issues of fathers and fatherhoods as we challenge preconceptions and look for new ways into this vital subject.

Explore this joyous, painful, essential emotion and learn to write ‘from the heart’ without recourse to sentimentality or cliché.

Explore the creative potential of the pamphlet form with expert pamphlet publishers, Guillemot Press.

Explore the sensorial dimension of visual poetry by engaging with the work of some of the most exciting innovative women poets today.

Experiment with chronicling the present moment and refresh your poetic practice as we explore the poetic journal.

Explore travel poems that focus on the journey and how travel can change us.

Reflect on, and mess about with, time in your poems, as we explore a range of strategies to harness the magic of time in your writing.

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

Explore how the Unconscious can inform our writing, as we break from narrative logic and delve into dreams.

Play with, and question, the notion of mistranslation to rethink what it means to communicate through poetry.