Jacqueline Saphra Fortnightly Seminars 2024/25
Intimate seminars with Jacqueline Saphra in London & on Zoom.
Fortnightly seminar group with Jacqueline Saphra, featuring close reading, in-depth discussion and feedback on your poems-in-progress, as well as conversation around contemporary poetry and guidance on your next steps as a poet. With a maximum of seven students in each group, these seminars provide an intimate setting and generate supportive and critical friendships, helping you to become part of your local poetry community.
Entry into the seminars 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.
Sessions will run 6.30–9pm on the below dates and will alternate between Zoom and In-Person sessions at The Bindery, 51 Hatton Garden, London, EC1N 8HN. Zoom sessions are marked with an asterisk in the dates below.
Fortnightly Tuesdays
8-Oct
22-Oct*
5-Nov
19-Nov*
3-Dec*
17-Dec
14-Jan
28-Jan*
11-Feb
25-Feb*
11-Mar
8-Apr
22-Apr*
6-May
20-May*
3-Jun
[N.B. There is no session on 25-Mar]
More information about how all our seminars work can be found on the Seminars Course Page.
About Jacqueline Saphra 
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Jacqueline Saphra is a poet, playwright, teacher, and activist. She is the author of nine plays, four chapbooks, and five poetry collections. Her second collection, All My Mad Mothers was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and her fifth, Velvel’s Violin, a Poetry Book Society recommendation and a Poetry Book of the Month Radio 4 Extra, was out from Nine Arches Press in July 2023. Jacqueline is a founder member of Poets for the Planet.
‘An excellent course with a wide range of input from our tutor, Jacqueline Saphra, and stimulating contributions from fellow students.’
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