For more information and FAQs about how our courses work, please go to our In-Person Courses, Video Courses and Online Courses pages.
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Tutor: Meryl Pugh
Monthly Zoom seminars, with MA Core Tutor Meryl Pugh, for those looking to develop the skills necessary for postgraduate poetic study.
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Tutor: Joelle Taylor
Explore the T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist with poet, playwright, editor, and previous winner, Joelle Taylor!
£210.00 *
Tutor: lisa minerva luxx
Unshackle your language and transform your poetry with liberation poetics.
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Tutor: Jessica Traynor
Summon the poetics of the seasonally sensitive with dark arts, folklore, and myth.
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Tutor: Peter Hughes
Methods of making; start with art and a feminist approach to ekphrasis.
£210.00 *
Tutor: Caleb Parkin
Join the weird, multi-species crew of our compost-bin spaceship, Earth.
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Tutor: Tim Dooley
Our long-running weekly workshop with Tim Dooley, for poets looking to develop their individual voice and technique.
£130.00 *
Tutor: David Caddy
Write poetry at the pointy end – pioneers, protest, and poetics of the possible.
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Tutor: Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese
Enquiries into the ecological – researching poetic responses to academic studies on the environment.
£220.00 *
Tutor: Natasha Hakimi Zapata
A weekly workshop for developing poets looking to improve their writing through feedback and close reading.
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Tutor: Andrew Wells
Understanding our ancestors; form and freedom in anglophone poetics.
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Tutor: Sophie Seita
Explore the intersection of experimental poetry, drawing, music, and performance as we create new work, adjacent to language.
£95.00 *
Tutor: Sophie Seita
Explore and experiment with your voice as an instrument and develop new forms of embodied writing and performance.
£220.00 *
Tutor: Anthony Anaxagorou
Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou.
£220.00 *
Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith
Challenge yourself, elevate your writing, and take the next steps in your poetry career
£220.00 *
Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra
Mix up your writing and learn new skills and techniques with Jacqueline Saphra.
£130.00 *
Tutor: Roz Shayan Naimi
Explore extraordinary Persian poetics as inspiration for your own work.
£130.00 *
Tutor: Edward Doegar
Bring your subjects to live with poetry of close attention and individual focus.
£220.00 *
Tutor: Wayne Holloway-Smith
Bring your writing to the next level and explore contemporary poetry’s cutting-edge.
£220.00 *
Tutor: Astrid Alben
An exciting, advanced poetry workshop with the innovative Astrid Alben.
£130.00 *
Tutor: Rebecca Levi
Discover current Italian women poets writing beyond the traditional.
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Tutor: Flo Reynolds
Capturing temporality in your own personal poetics.
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Tutor: Rachel Long
An exciting advanced workshop group with the much-loved Rachel Long and the benefit of special guest tutors each term.
£220.00 *
Tutor: Mark Waldron
An advanced weekly workshop group with the inimitable Mark Waldron.
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Tutor: Leah Umansky
Explore new approaches in your writing through the lens of pop culture!
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Tutor: Becky Varley-Winter
Spark your creativity and take your first steps into the world of poetry!
£95.00 *
Tutor: Jennifer Lee Tsai
Knock loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback from poet, critic, and teacher, Jennifer Lee Tsai.
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£220.00 *
Tutor: Matthew Caley
What training do you do to sustain and maintain yourself as a poet? Explore the essential work of writerly ‘technique’, in an all new edition of this popular course.
£220.00 *
Tutor: Shazea Quraishi
How can we write poetry through times of ecological emergency, perpetual war, or personal crises?
£220.00 *
Tutor: Richard Price
Join this group for close discussion of your writing with acclaimed poet, Richard Price.
£130.00 *
Tutor: Sue Burge
Parisienne pleasures - Paris as poetic muse.
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Tutor: Colin Bramwell
Perfect your poetic practice (and get answers to questions you’ve been too afraid to ask!).
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Tutor: Becky Varley-Winter
Join a supportive community for close reading and developmental feedback on your new poems!
£215.00 *
Tutor: Ros Barber
Monthly all-day Saturday workshops with Ros Barber.
£95.00 *
Tutor: Kat Dixon
Peek at queerness out the corner of your eye and learn to write into your subconscious.
£95.00 *
Tutor: Tice
It's all in a kiss! Join us for an intimate course with interdisciplinary artist and poet Tice Cin, exploring the kiss in poetry.
£95.00 *
Tutor: Penny Boxall
What are we talking about when we talk about the North?
£130.00 *
Tutor: Jodie Hollander
Structure storied poems and narrate like a natural.
£95.00 *
Tutor: Giulia Ottavia Frattini
Unveiling the unseen for revelatory, experimental poetics.
£95.00 *
Tutor: Abbi Parcell
Use your writing to explore personal identity and the intersections that shape us.
£80.00 *
Tutor: Rachel Long
Gboyega: Locating selfhood, seen-ness, and invisibility in Adam. Decent.
£95.00 *
Tutor: Becky Varley-Winter
Blow-up to glow-up; use non-traditional means to make magic fragmented poems.
£95.00 *
Tutor: Katrina Naomi
From manuscript to collection – what to know as you prepare for submission.
£55.00 *
Tutor: Eve Grubin
Risk and reward – saying un-sayable things.
The Poetry School’s teaching year runs over three ‘terms’ – Autumn, Spring and Summer. Each term we offer around 40-50 courses and workshops that cater to a variety of levels, varying in length and subject matter. The course programme changes every term with more new courses, workshops and tutors, but often includes courses that run over three terms and popular repeats.
We offer both ‘classroom’ teaching (UK) and ‘virtual’ teaching (international). You can visit our In-Person Courses, Video Courses and Online Courses pages for more detailed information about course structures, process and what to expect.
Most of our courses and workshops accommodate writers with a wide range of experience, but some are specifically designed for beginners or more practicised poets.
Here are our definitions:
Our programme is developed around these three teaching levels, although we also offer many courses that are Open to all – courses aimed at all levels, often focusing on a specific theme or inspirational subject matter.
‘Literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm’ – OED
‘Poetry is a heightened imagistic use of language that does things to the heart and head’ – Grace Nichols
‘A made thing, a verbal construct, an event in language’ – Edward Hirsch
‘Poetry is memorable speech’ – W H Auden
‘Poetry does not explain life. It gives life to feeling and seeing’ – Sarah Stetie
‘Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not’ – Samuel Johnson