Isabelle Baafi Zoom Seminars 2025/26
Intimate monthly seminars with Isabelle Baafi on Zoom.
* This Seminar will take place on the video-conferencing platform, ZOOM *
Monthly seminar groups with Isabelle Baafi, featuring close reading, in-depth discussion and feedback on your poems-in-progress, as well guidance on your next steps as a poet and conversation around contemporary poetry. With a maximum of eight students in each group, these seminars provide an intimate setting and generate supportive and critical friendships, helping you to become part of a poetry community.
Entry into this group is by application only. If you would like to sign up, please email [email protected] for information and we will assist you in the application process.
Do not book online before applying.
8 x monthly sessions between October and May. Classes will run on Wednesdays 6.30–9pm on Zoom and take place on the following dates.
8-Oct
5-Nov
3-Dec
7-Jan
4-Feb
4-Mar
15-Apr
13-May
More information about how all our seminars work can be found on the Seminars Course Page.
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About Isabelle Baafi 
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Isabelle Baafi is the author of Chaotic Good (Faber & Faber / Wesleyan University Press, 2025), which is a Poetry Book Society (PBS) Recommendation, and Ripe (ignitionpress, 2020), which won a Somerset Maugham Award and was a PBS Pamphlet Choice. She won First Prize in the Winchester Poetry Prize 2023 and Second Prize in the London Magazine Poetry Prize 2022. Her writing has been published in Granta, the TLS, The Poetry Review, Callaloo, The London Magazine, and elsewhere. She is a Ledbury Poetry Critic and an Obsidian Foundation Fellow. She edits at Poetry London and Magma.
‘The seminars have been great for developing the poetic sense and editing skills. A very inclusive process. New friends made, new poets discovered.’