Courses

Write into your emotions and sensitivities, as we explore pairs of feelings and produce passionate poetry for these emotionally-charged times.

Respond to poetry pranks throughout history.

Tell the tale that is waiting to be told; break the rules and propel your story through poetry.

Beyond next word prediction: rethinking poetry, technology and creative solitude.

Knock loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback from poet, critic, and tutor, Edward Doegar.

Explore the joy and resilience of pastoral writing from Global Majority poets.

Summon the poetics of the seasonally sensitive with dark arts, folklore, and myth.

Take inspiration from one of contemporary poetry's true masters! Join us as we capture animals, let them go, obsess over detail, and refuse to reach significance in our writing.

Elevate your prose poetry game, as we dive into the specifics and peculiarities of prose poems and flash fiction.

Explore landscapes of strangeness as we "Re-Weird" Albion and dig down to uncover the dark folklore, uncanny hauntings, and radical myths entangled in our roots.

Delve deep into below-ground ecologies to write ‘undersongs’ of our own underlands.

Test out techniques and explore the repeating beats of traditional forms.

Explore neurodivergent thinking as a source of poetic power as we put our skills of divergence, intensity, and spontaneity into new poems.

Explore the wide oeuvre of Edward Thomas as inspiration for your own writing, as we dive into nature, symbolism, the past, idleness, and our own glorious complexities.

Seek cartographic inspiration in your poetry, as we explore many forms of maps – from children's books, to fantasy worlds, to modern art, and psychogeography.

Explore faith and creative betrayal in the fascinating art of linguistic translation.

Connecting the performative to your poetic, inspired by innovative contemporary practitioners.

Kinships can shape us as people and the emotional landscapes in which we live; join as we explore those rich relationships and notions of belonging in your writing.

Can we co-opt technological tools to take the house apart and see if there is a cybernetic meadow beneath?

First, second, third person; explore how different points of view and narrative positions affect your poems.

Traversing from revelry to meditation using cultural masks to discover our own true selves.

Follow the lunar cycle and make your own meanings out of the moon in poetry.

Unearth the deep and enduring treasures buried in the cracks of language and investigate the unspoken in poetry.

Revel in the upraised voices of peri and menopausal women and banish the taboo of writing about the life transition.

Learn to capture a reader’s attention within seconds and leave them wanting more with Forward Prize-winning and T.S. Eliot Prize-nominated Isabelle Baafi!