For more information and FAQs about how our courses work, please go to our In-Person Courses, Video Courses and Online Courses pages.
£186.00 *
Tutor: Agnieszka Studzinska
Discover what ghostliness and absence can become in your writing, as we trace the spectral in landscape and nature, time, and our relationships with those living and dead.
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Tutor: Leah Umansky
Invent forms, break the rules, play, and experiment to create surprising, innovative work.
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Tutor: Fawzia Kane
Dig into the materials that surround you and their varied histories as a mine for poetic inspiration.
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Tutor: Natasha Hakimi Zapata
Discover how writing about food can be a lens to discover other cultures and help you dig into your own customs. Because who could resist those cold plums?
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Tutor: Stav Poleg
Enter the dark forest to find inspiration in the mesmerising world of Dante’s Divine Comedy, as we experiment with light and darkness, love and free will, journeys and destinations.
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Tutor: Phoebe Power
Develop your ear for rhythm and learn the many styles and techniques available to you in this poetic craft.
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Tutor: Jess Chandler
Knock your loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback from expert publisher and editor, Jess Chandler.
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Tutor: Samantha Walton
Take inspiration from Nan Shepherd to explore how language can live between the body, self, and natural world.
£265.00 *
Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith
Intimate monthly seminars with Wayne Holloway-Smith.
£190.00 *
Tutor: Ros Barber
Monthly all-day Saturday workshops with Ros Barber.
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Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith
Challenge yourself, elevate your writing, and take the next steps in your poetry career.
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Tutor: Adam Crothers
Break apart and re-build the sonnet to explore how this form can also house conflict, connivance, and corruption.
£118.00 *
Tutor: Jennifer Wong
Explore how poets from around the world interrogate the complexity of class divides as stimulus for vital new work of your own.
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Tutor: Anthony Anaxagorou
Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou.
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Tutor: vilde b. torset
Explore the poetic dimensions of avantgarde theatre and discover new possibilities at the intersection of poem and play.
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Tutor: Shazea Quraishi
Hone your craft, explore poetry’s inner workings, and look at techniques to help your poems achieve lift-off.
£195.00 *
Tutor: Astrid Alben
An exciting new advanced workshop group with the innovative Astrid Alben.
£265.00 *
Tutor: Greta Stoddart
Intimate monthly seminars with Greta Stoddart in Kilmington.
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Tutor: Fiona Sampson
Intimate monthly seminars with Fiona Sampson in Hereford.
£265.00 *
Tutor: Philip Gross
Intimate monthly seminars with Philip Gross.
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Tutor: Peter Hughes
Write fresh versions from some of the titans of Italian poetry: Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, Leopardi, and Pascoli
£265.00 *
Tutor: Antony Dunn
Intimate monthly seminars with Antony Dunn.
£195.00 *
Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith
Bring your writing to the next level and explore contemporary poetry’s cutting-edge.
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Tutor: Alice Kavounas
In-depth monthly seminars with Alice Kavounas.
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Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra
Mix up your writing, and learn new skills and techniques with Jacqueline Saphra.
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Tutor: Mark Waldron
Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced course with Mark Waldron.
£195.00 *
Tutor: Tim Dooley
Our long-running weekly workshop with Tim Dooley, for poets looking to develop their individual voice and technique.
£118.00 *
Tutor: Rhys Trimble
Discover how poetry, with its creative avenues and alternative forms of expression, is the perfect form for non-neurotypical art.
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Tutor: Greta Stoddart
Intimate monthly seminars with Greta Stoddart on Zoom.
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Tutor: David Tait
Explore the city historically and what the metropolis can be now, especially in our new post-pandemic context.
£265.00 *
Tutor: Greta Stoddart
Intimate monthly seminars with Greta Stoddart in Bridport.
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Tutor: Becky Varley-Winter
Spark your creativity and take your first steps into the world of poetry!
£118.00 *
Tutor: Chris Beckett
Explore childhood’s many landmarks and emotions through the lens of African and Western Praise Poems.
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Tutor: Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese
Explore the intersections of landscape, history, and memory with a close look at the work of Longbarrow Press.
£118.00 *
Tutor: Adam Feinstein
Explore the work of renowned poet Elaine Feinstein, under the expert guide of poet, critic, and her son, Adam Feinstein!
£195.00 *
Tutor: Richard Price
Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced workshop with Richard Price.
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Tutor: Tim Dooley
Our weekly workshop for intermediate poets looking to develop their work.
£170.00 *
Tutor: Harry Man
Hack into old habits and discover new languages and realities in this 101 on writing poetry online.
£195.00 *
Tutor: Chrissy Williams
A week-by-week exploration of Lynch’s films as a source of poetic inspiration.
£265.00 *
Tutor: Greta Stoddart
Intimate monthly seminars with Greta Stoddart in Exeter.
£265.00 *
Tutor: Tamar Yoseloff
Intimate monthly seminars with Tamar Yoseloff.
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Tutor: Glyn Maxwell
Monthly seminars in London for graduates of our MA in Writing Poetry.
£265.00 *
Tutor: Shazea Quraishi
Intimate monthly seminars with Shazea Quraishi.
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Tutor: Eve Grubin
Investigate the power of blank space in poetry.
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Tutor: Carmen Bugan
Explore poems of healing, recovery, and hope as we emerge into a changed world.
£265.00 *
Tutor: Heidi Williamson
Intimate monthly seminars with Heidi Williamson in Wymondham.
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Tutor: Tolu Agbelusi
Investigate the body’s potential as a site for poetic exploration, experimentation, and inspiration.
£265.00 *
Tutor: Kathryn Simmonds
Intimate monthly seminars with Kathryn Simmonds.
£265.00 *
Tutor: Phoebe Power
Intimate monthly seminars with Phoebe Power.
£265.00 *
Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra
Intimate monthly seminars with Jacqueline Saphra in London.
£265.00 *
Tutor: Jacqui Rowe
Intimate monthly seminars with Jacqui Rowe.
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Tutor: Fiona Sampson
In-depth 1-2-1 discussion on your poetry with Fiona Sampson.
£265.00 *
Tutor: Stav Poleg
Intimate monthly seminars with Stav Poleg in Cambridge.
£84.00 *
Put some comedy into your poetry with award-winning comedian and poet Angie Belcher.
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Tutor: Vanessa Kisuule
Play with, and question, the notion of mistranslation to rethink what it means to communicate through poetry.
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Tutor: Rachel Long
‘I want it all. I want it all. And I want it now’. Delve into desire with Rachel Long.
£265.00 *
Tutor: AngelaFrance
Intimate monthly seminars with Angela France, organised in partnership with Ledbury Poetry Festival.
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Tutor: Katrina Naomi
Take an inclusive trip into Ecopoetry to explore the many different ways of writing the environment.
£84.00 *
Tutor: Zoe Skoulding
Consider how poetry in English can refract other languages and explore the Atlantic as a space of exchange and translation.
The Poetry School’s teaching year runs over three ‘terms’ – Autumn, Spring and Summer. Each term we offer around 40-50 courses and workshops that cater to a variety of levels, varying in length and subject matter. The course programme changes every term with more new courses, workshops and tutors, but often includes courses that run over three terms and popular repeats.
We offer both ‘classroom’ teaching (UK) and ‘virtual’ teaching (international). You can visit our In-Person Courses, Video Courses and Online Courses pages for more detailed information about course structures, process and what to expect.
Most of our courses and workshops accommodate writers with a wide range of experience, but some are specifically designed for beginners or more practicised poets.
Here are our definitions:
Our programme is developed around these three teaching levels, although we also offer many courses that are Open to all – courses aimed at all levels, often focusing on a specific theme or inspirational subject matter.
‘Literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm’ – OED
‘Poetry is a heightened imagistic use of language that does things to the heart and head’ – Grace Nichols
‘A made thing, a verbal construct, an event in language’ – Edward Hirsch
‘Poetry is memorable speech’ – W H Auden
‘Poetry does not explain life. It gives life to feeling and seeing’ – Sarah Stetie
‘Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not’ – Samuel Johnson