Fortnightly Feedback with Isabelle Baafi

Knock loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback from poet, critic, and tutor, Isabelle Baafi.

Do you have a heap of poems that just won’t work, no matter how many revisions you make? Our Fortnightly Feedback course provides a place for improvement of left-for-dead poems in need of resuscitation. Submit drafts once a fortnight for advice and feedback from your peers, before giving a final draft to the tutor for detailed comment, criticism, and direction. These courses are ideal for those looking to get a selection of poems ready for magazine submission.

*This is a feedback-only course, with no generative assignments, intended for workshopping pre-existing poems*

11 May – course start
25 May – 1st poem submission (feedback from tutor posted by 1 Jun)
8 Jun – 2nd poem submission (feedback from tutor posted by 15 Jun)
22 Jun – 3rd poem submission (feedback from tutor posted by 29 Jun)
6 Jul 4th poem submission (feedback from tutor posted by 13 Jul)
20 Jul – 5th poem submission (feedback from tutor posted by 27 Jul)

Submit 5 poems (no more than 1 side of A4 per poem) for detailed feedback over the 11 weeks. No live chats. Suitable for UK & International students.

Concessions & Accessibility

To apply for a concession rate, please send relevant documentation showing your eligibility for one of our concessions to [email protected]. Conditions of eligibility are detailed here. If you have any questions or wish to be added to the waiting list of a sold-out course, please email [email protected].

What to Expect

Please check the left hand side of this page for information on how this course works in practice, under the heading ‘Course Style‘. If you’re unsure as to what any of the terms there mean, or if this course is a good fit for you, please visit our What to Expect page which includes some further information on how our courses function.

About Isabelle Baafi View Profile

Isabelle Baafi is the author of Chaotic Good (Faber & Faber / Wesleyan University Press, 2025), which won the Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, and is longlisted for the Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize. Her pamphlet Ripe (ignitionpress, 2020) won a Somerset Maugham Award and was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. She won the Winchester Poetry Prize 2023 and has been published in Granta, the TLS, The Poetry Review, Callaloo, The London Magazine, and elsewhere. She edits at Poetry London and Magma.

"I have more confidence sharing my writing, and have been introduced to many more types of poetry that I wouldn’t otherwise pick up for myself."

- Fortnightly Feedback Autumn 2025 Survey Response

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