Jacqueline Saphra Monthly London Seminars 2025/26
Intimate seminars with Jacqueline Saphra in London.
*THESE SEMINARS ARE CURRENTLY IN THE PRIORITY BOOKING PERIOD*
If you would like to be added to the waiting list please email [email protected].
Seminar groups with Jacqueline Saphra in London, 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 generally be held in-person at Bankside, London, SE1 9TG. You can choose your specific group at the next stage in the checkout process.
Tuesday Group
14-Oct
18-Nov
16-Dec
24-Feb
17-Mar
14-Apr
19-May
16-Jun
Thursday Group
16-Oct
20-Nov
18-Dec
26-Feb
19-Mar
16-Apr
21-May
18-Jun
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.
‘I discovered the Poetry School about ten years ago. It was a gateway to practicing poetry. The access to courses and mentors on poetry provided a friendly and reliable platform to develop my craft. It took me in - to the community of living poets that I did not know existed.’