Poetry Courses • Poetry School

Short Short Poems: White Space and Silence (Masterclass)

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Tutor: Tania Hershman

Short Short Poems: White Space and Silence (Masterclass)

Leave no word unturned

Start Date: January 14, 2019
End Date: April 1, 2019 ( 78 Days )
Type: Online

The God in the Forest: Nature Mysticism (Spring 2019)

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Tutor: Seán Hewitt

The God in the Forest: Nature Mysticism (Spring 2019)

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

Start Date: January 14, 2019
End Date: March 18, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Online

£171.00 *

Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith

Pamphlet / Portfolio (Spring 2019)

Take your work to the next level and develop your portfolio

Start Date: January 14, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: March 18, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£171.00 *

Tutor: Shazea Quraishi

The Poet’s Toolkit (Spring 2019)

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

Start Date: January 14, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: March 18, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

The Wood for the Trees: Significant Poets of the British Isles (Reading Course)

£171.00 *

Tutor: Glyn Maxwell

The Wood for the Trees: Significant Poets of the British Isles (Reading Course)

Explore forty poets from Old English to the mid-twentieth century

Start Date: January 15, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: March 19, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Nothing Beyond Routine Greatness: Speechwriting and Poetry

£90.00 *

Tutor: Alex MacDonald

Nothing Beyond Routine Greatness: Speechwriting and Poetry

Borrow the tools and tricks of oration to deliver persuasive poems

Start Date: January 15, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: March 12, 2019 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Liberating Poetic Chaos (Masterclass, Spring 2019)

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Tutor: Steve Ely

Liberating Poetic Chaos (Masterclass, Spring 2019)

Create true and original art out of that which was unspoken, formless and void

Start Date: January 15, 2019
End Date: April 2, 2019 ( 78 Days )
Type: Online

Whole Trees with their Bones: Botany & Poetry

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Tutor: Sarah Byrne

Whole Trees with their Bones: Botany & Poetry

Become plant collectors and enlarge the meaning of our natural world(s)

Start Date: January 15, 2019
End Date: March 19, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Online

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Special Guests Tues AM (Spring 2019)

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Tutor: Kathryn Maris

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Special Guests Tues AM (Spring 2019)

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

Start Date: January 15, 2019 11am
End Date: March 19, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

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Tutor: David Tait

Out of the Ordinary (International)

To live a normal life, that's where the poetry is

Start Date: January 16, 2019
End Date: March 20, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Online

A Dweller on the Plains: The Poetry of Walking

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Tutor: Rachel Piercey

A Dweller on the Plains: The Poetry of Walking

Don your hiking boots and discover new poetry pathways

Start Date: January 16, 2019
End Date: March 20, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Online

£90.00 *

Tutor: Miriam Darlington

The Poetic Sequence (Exeter)

Find out why and how poets group their poems, and what makes a successful grouping

Start Date: January 16, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: March 13, 2019 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Exeter Community Centre, Exeter

Intermediate Poetry Workshop (Spring 2019)

£171.00 *

Tutor: Tim Dooley

Intermediate Poetry Workshop (Spring 2019)

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

Start Date: January 16, 2019 2pm
End Date: March 27, 2019 ( 71 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£171.00 *

Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra

Poem, Prompt, Pick & Mix (Spring 2019)

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

Start Date: January 16, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: March 20, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron (Spring 2019)

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Tutor: Mark Waldron

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron (Spring 2019)

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

Start Date: January 16, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: March 20, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Special Guests (Thurs PM, Spring 2019)

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Tutor: Kathryn Maris

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Special Guests (Thurs PM, Spring 2019)

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

Start Date: January 17, 2019 2pm
End Date: March 21, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£90.00 *

Tutor: Simon Barraclough

Downriver

Navigate the secrets of rivers real and imagined

Start Date: January 17, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: March 14, 2019 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Fair Field: How to Write Like a Medieval (Transreading, Spring 2019)

£109.00 *

Tutor: Tom Chivers

Fair Field: How to Write Like a Medieval (Transreading, Spring 2019)

Write epic, neo-medievalist re-tellings of the earliest English poetry

Start Date: January 17, 2019
End Date: March 21, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: J. R. Carpenter

Writing Coastlines (International)

Craft poems on the ever-shifting edges of water and land

Start Date: January 17, 2019
End Date: March 21, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Online

£109.00 *

Tutor: Christina Thatcher

Family Politics

Probe the (dys)functions and politics of family life

Start Date: January 17, 2019
End Date: March 21, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Online

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Spring 2019)

£171.00 *

Tutor: Richard Price

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price (Spring 2019)

Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced workshop

Start Date: January 18, 2019 11am
End Date: March 22, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

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Tutor: Will Harris

Fortnightly Feedback with Will Harris

Knock those loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback

Start Date: January 18, 2019
End Date: March 22, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Online

The Light Room: Poetry & Photography's Intersections

£144.00 *

Tutor: sjfowler

The Light Room: Poetry & Photography's Intersections

Explore the light and dark of poems to develop new ways of seeing

Start Date: January 19, 2019 10.30am
End Date: January 20, 2019 ( 2 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£90.00 *

Tutor: Roy Mcfarlane

Poetry as a Witness (Birmingham)

How do we bear witness in the re-telling of events?

Start Date: January 19, 2019 12pm
End Date: March 16, 2019 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Pen Museum, Birmingham

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Tutor: Richard Georges

20 Sonnets (International)

Read 15 sonnets and write 5 over the course of 10 weeks.

Start Date: January 21, 2019
End Date: March 25, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Online

Voicing Rootlessness: Writing Beyond Exile

£109.00 *

Tutor: André Naffis-Sahely

Voicing Rootlessness: Writing Beyond Exile

Write poems of connection in an age of mass uprooting and movement

Start Date: January 21, 2019
End Date: March 25, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Online

To be Unhomed: Reading and Writing (as) Wretched Strangers (Transreading)

£109.00 *

Tutor: Wanda O’Connor

To be Unhomed: Reading and Writing (as) Wretched Strangers (Transreading)

Writing into the difficulty of belonging

Start Date: January 22, 2019
End Date: March 26, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese

Transreading John Berger

Compose poems as small pockets of resistance

Start Date: January 23, 2019
End Date: March 27, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Online

Turning Towards, Turning Away: Ekphrastic Poetry (International)

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Tutor: Tishani Doshi

Turning Towards, Turning Away: Ekphrastic Poetry (International)

Narrate, reflect on and articulate great works of visual art

Start Date: January 23, 2019
End Date: March 27, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Online

£171.00 *

Tutor: Meryl Pugh

First Encounters (Spring 2019)

Take your first steps into the world of poetry!

Start Date: January 24, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: March 28, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£90.00 *

Tutor: Chrissy Williams

What Is a Poem?

Interrogate the boundaries of the genre in these friendly, fruitful workshops

Start Date: January 24, 2019 6.45pm
End Date: March 21, 2019 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Speaking in Tones: Crafting Musical Poetry (International, Spring 2019)

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Tutor: Jodie Hollander

Speaking in Tones: Crafting Musical Poetry (International, Spring 2019)

Craft musical poems and investigate how sound can work in the poetic line

Start Date: January 24, 2019
End Date: March 28, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Online

£109.00 *

Tutor: Jonathan Edwards

Someone Else’s Shoes: Poetic Monologue

Expand your voice with the thoughts, lives and feelings of others

Start Date: January 24, 2019
End Date: March 28, 2019 ( 64 Days )
Type: Online

Where No Poem Has Gone Before: Science Fiction Studio

£79.00 *

Tutor: Callie Gardner

Where No Poem Has Gone Before: Science Fiction Studio

Explore distant planets, future cities, and the furthest reaches of human imagination

Start Date: January 24, 2019
End Date: February 18, 2019 ( 26 Days )
Type: Online

£72.00 *

Tutor: Karen Whiteson

Origins of the Golem

Trace the generative parallels between the Judaic golem and writing poetry

Start Date: January 26, 2019 10.30am
End Date: January 26, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£90.00 *

Tutor: William Wootten

The Art of the Sonnet (Bristol)

Come explore a rich variety of sonnets and near-sonnets

Start Date: January 28, 2019 7 pm
End Date: March 25, 2019 ( 57 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: Hours, Bristol

Saturday Sessions with Ros Barber (Spring 2019)

£177.00 *

Tutor: Ros Barber

Saturday Sessions with Ros Barber (Spring 2019)

Monthly all-day Saturday workshops with Ros Barber

Start Date: February 2, 2019 10.30
End Date: March 23, 2019 ( 50 Days )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Come Back Early: Revisiting and Revising

£72.00 *

Tutor: Penny Boxall

Come Back Early: Revisiting and Revising

Invigorate your poems with a fresh approach

Start Date: February 2, 2019 10.30am
End Date: February 2, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

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Tutor: Tamar Yoseloff

After Arcadia: Cy Twombly

Use repurposing, erasure and collage to create new poems

Start Date: February 9, 2019 10.30
End Date: February 9, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Parasol Unit Workshop: 'Ugly Words' with Dean Atta

Tutor: Dean Atta

Parasol Unit Workshop: 'Ugly Words' with Dean Atta

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

Start Date: February 9, 2019 10.30am
Type: Events

Creative Response Studio: Finding Our Why

£79.00

Tutor: Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Creative Response Studio: Finding Our Why

Apply best practice to poetry commissions and residencies

Start Date: February 11, 2019
End Date: March 11, 2019 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

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Tutor: Ella Frears

WRITE AHEAD: Free Introductory Workshop

Want to be a poet? Go Write Ahead.

Start Date: February 15, 2019 7pm
End Date: February 15, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Already Inside: Masterclass with Sean O'Brien

£72.00 *

Tutor: Sean O'Brien

Already Inside: Masterclass with Sean O'Brien

Write poems with a rich inner life and sound internal logic

Start Date: February 23, 2019 10.30am
End Date: February 23, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£72.00 *

Tutor: Vahni Capildeo

Write into the Territory

Rewrite the explorer's handbook on a liberating poetic adventure

Start Date: February 23, 2019 10.30am
End Date: February 23, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Out-Spoken Press: Surgery with Anthony Anaxagorou

£80.00 *

Tutor: Anthony Anaxagorou

Out-Spoken Press: Surgery with Anthony Anaxagorou

Join us for a special day of one-to-one feedback sessions with poets from the inimitable Out-Spoken Press

Start Date: March 2, 2019
End Date: March 2, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Out-Spoken Press: Surgery with Fran Lock

£80.00 *

Tutor: Fran Lock

Out-Spoken Press: Surgery with Fran Lock

Join us for a special day of one-to-one feedback sessions with poets from the inimitable Out-Spoken Press

Start Date: March 2, 2019
End Date: March 2, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Out-Spoken Press: Surgery with Bridget Minamore

£80.00 *

Tutor: Bridget Minamore

Out-Spoken Press: Surgery with Bridget Minamore

Join us for a special day of one-to-one feedback sessions with poets from the inimitable Out-Spoken Press

Start Date: March 2, 2019
End Date: March 2, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£72.00 *

Tutor: Tamar Yoseloff

After Arcadia: Ian Hamilton Finlay

Apply the active, integrated practice of art-making to your poems

Start Date: March 9, 2019 10.30am
End Date: March 9, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£79.00 *

Tutor: Leah Umansky

Only Love Studio

Write poems straight from the heart

Start Date: March 11, 2019
End Date: April 8, 2019 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

Poetry Playback: ‘The Perseverance' by Raymond Antrobus

Tutor: Raymond Antrobus

Poetry Playback: ‘The Perseverance' by Raymond Antrobus

A feature-length reading of ‘The Perseverance' by Raymond Antrobus

Start Date: March 14, 2019 6.45pm
Type: Events

Technicians of the Sacred: The Poem as a Magical Event

£72.00 *

Tutor: Sascha Akhtar

Technicians of the Sacred: The Poem as a Magical Event

Charge your poems with the ancient power of charm, spell, hymn and hex

Start Date: March 16, 2019 10.30am
End Date: March 16, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Tutor: Phillis Levin

Poetry surgery with Phillis Levin

A day of one-to-one feedback sessions with an award-winning poet

Start Date: March 20, 2019
End Date: March 20, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

Calling Forth: Direct Address / Apostrophe

£72.00 *

Tutor: Phillis Levin

Calling Forth: Direct Address / Apostrophe

Explore the power of the vocative or direct address in poetry

Start Date: March 23, 2019 10.30am
End Date: March 23, 2019 ( 1 Day )
Type: Face-to-Face • Location: The Poetry School, London

£79.00 *

Tutor: Patrick Wright

Pareidolia Studio

Unlock the potential of your surroundings with creative mis-perception

Start Date: March 25, 2019
End Date: April 22, 2019 ( 29 Days )
Type: Online

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