New Territories: An Intermediate-Advanced Workshop with Wayne Holloway-Smith
Bring your writing to the next level and explore contemporary poetry’s cutting-edge.
* This course will take place on the video-conferencing platform ZOOM *
This developmental course is open to all intermediate and advanced writers, who want to expand the vocabulary of their practice. Drawing upon Wayne Holloway-Smith’s experience as a prize winning poet and the editor of the UK’s leading poetry magazine, The Poetry Review, you will build an understanding of the very contemporary work being produced by some of today’s leading practitioners.
Across the term, you will be invited to consider a range of fresh techniques and challenged to think in unexpected and creative ways. Through close reading and discussion of recently published work, and through the expert guidance of your tutor and peer feedback your work will be pushed into new territory.
The aim of this course is to create a generative and safe space to try new things, make mistakes, experiment, and, ultimately, enjoy the process.
This course is currently in a Priority Booking period, meaning it is only available to students continuing from the previous term. We will open any remaining spaces to new students on Monday 18 November. If you would like to be added to the waiting list for this, please email [email protected].
10 weekly Zoom sessions on Tuesdays, 6.45–8.45pm (BST/GMT), starts 21 Jan 2025.
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. 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 Wayne Holloway-Smith 
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Wayne Holloway-Smith has published two collections of poetry, Alarum (Bloodaxe 2017), a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice, and Love Minus Love (Bloodaxe 2020), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. He won the National Poetry Competition in 2018. Additionally, his pocketbook, Beloved, in case you’ve been wondering was published by Donut Press in 2011; I CAN’T WAIT FOR THE WENDING, an experimental unbound book of poems, was published by Prototype in 2018; his latest work, Lobsters, was published by Makina Books in 2021. He is currently the editor for Poetry Review.
"I very much like Wayne's way of tutoring, around the idea of learning through discussion, being introduced to new, unexplored territories."
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