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

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

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

Knock those loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Get tactile and explore poetry as a kind of architecture.

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