Advanced Poetry Workshop with Astrid Alben [Autumn 2023]
An exciting new advanced workshop group with the innovative Astrid Alben.
This course is for advanced writers of poetry. Each week we will focus on developing your work-in-progress, including individual poems and poems-in-sequence, through reading, discussion, feedback, re-drafting, and discussion of poetics and direction. Over the term there will be set writing tasks, plus occasional focuses on a particular poet or artist/sculptor/composer to help engender fresh thinking, provoke discussion and expand your poetic practice.
10 weekly sessions on Tuesdays, 6.45–8.45pm (BST), starts 3 October 2023. Sessions for this course will take place at Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 1LA.
Please note: Entry to this course is by application only. If you would like to join, please send a submission of three poems to [email protected].
To apply for a concession rate, please send relevant documentation showing your eligibility for one of our concessions to administ[email protected]. Conditions of eligibility are detailed here. More information about how our In-Person Courses work can be found on the In-Person Courses page. If you have any questions or wish to be added to the waiting list of a sold-out course, please email [email protected].
About Astrid Alben 
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Astrid Alben has published three collections of poetry, Ai! Ai! Pianissimo (Arc, 2011), Plainspeak (Prototype, 2019), and Little Dead Rabbit (Prototype, 2022), which was also published in Dutch by PoëzieCentrum. Her translation of Anne Vegter’s Island glacier mountain won an English PEN Translates Award in 2022 and her Collected Poems of F. van Dixhoorn is forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books in March 2024. Alben is currently the international editor for Prototype Publishing. has published three collections of poetry, Ai! Ai! Pianissimo (Arc, 2011),Plainspeak (Prototype, 2019) and Little Dead Rabbit (Prototype, 2022), which was also published in Dutch by PoëzieCentrum. Her translation of Anne Vegter’s Island glacier mountain won an English PEN Translates Award in 2022 and her Collected Poems of F. van Dixhoorn is forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books in March 2024. Alben is currently the international editor for Prototype Publishing. www.astridalben.com.
‘Astrid is a dedicated teacher. Her comments on each individual poet’s work are detailed, honest, and generous. I find that her feedback has been very valuable on improving my editing. Highly recommend her workshop, especially over several terms.’
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