Game Theory
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* This course will take place on the video-conferencing platform ZOOM *
When was the last time you had a good play with your poems? There are many games that we grew up playing and continue to play in our lives as adults and as creatives. This workshop looks to use those games from childhood or elsewhere to guide the generation of new work and, more specifically, to play with ideas of what is possible in the rendering of new poetry in terms of form and structure.
In the workshop, we will look at popular games that people play: their rules, structures, strategies, and variations, and see how these can be used to help generate new poems, create innovative forms, and employ language in surprising ways.
Feel free to bring poems that are in-progress, or just yourself and an open mind. It’s going to be fun, I swear.
1-off Zoom session at 6.30–9.00pm (BST on Monday 14th September)
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.
What to Expect
This course is part of The September Sessions: 10 Years of the MA in Writing in Poetry, a series of Zoom workshops celebrating 10 Years of our MA in Writing in Poetry programme. Check out the full line up here.
More information about how our Video Courses work can be found on the Video 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].
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About Elontra Hall 
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Elontra Hall is a Watering Hole and Obsidian Fellow, Poetry School MA graduate (Distinction), and Magma board member. He was shortlisted for the Ploughshares Emerging Writer Competition (2024). He has been published in Poetry, Poetry London, Prairie Schooner, Magma, Shō and other journals. His debut pamphlet Cathedral (Broken Sleep) is forthcoming in August 2026.
"I’ve written many poems and feel so much more confident in sharing my work publicly. I’m very grateful [Poetry School] exists."
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