Turn everyday details into striking poems in this beginner-friendly workshop exploring voice, perspective, and creative ways into writing.
£45.00 *
For more information and FAQs about how our courses work, please go to our In-Person Courses, Video Courses and Online Courses pages.
£45.00 *
Turn everyday details into striking poems in this beginner-friendly workshop exploring voice, perspective, and creative ways into writing.
£55.00 *
Explore what "distance" really means and how it can actually intensify, rather than diminish, feeling in your poems.
£55.00 *
Rewrite reality inspired by Magritte’s use of visual metaphor and metonym.
£55.00 *
Exploring erotics and finding the perfect poetry in imperfection .
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Explore what happens when the lyric voice is put under pressure, when voice becomes unstable, or fragmentary.
£45.00 *
Start your poetic journey with this interactive, beginner-friendly workshop with poet, critic and tutor, Isabelle Baafi.
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Engage with nature poetry through four different routes: documentation, resistance, nature as solace, and imagined alternative futures.
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Explore female rage and write poems of witness as a sacred form.
£55.00 *
Looking at the New York Poets and their artist peers to create collage-inspired poetry.
£55.00 *
Explore how poetry can convey lasting attachments to children or parents following their absence.
£55.00 *
Ready, set, go!
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Gain the knowledge, confidence, and courage to get your first pamphlet out there .
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Against closure – writing like you’re not sure if you mean it.
£118.00 *
True Confessions – revisiting the confessional canon and bringing the personal into your own poetics.
£290.00 *
There’s a lot happening globally – but let’s not give up on the world just yet.
£290.00 *
Poetry and the line – poetic lineation for the nation.
£260.00 *
Our long-running weekly workshop with Tim Dooley, for poets looking to develop their individual voice and technique.
£290.00 *
Now that’s what I call sound poetry – expand your poetic mind with a joyful guided listen to the best of sonic poetry.
£160.00 *
Location, Location, Location – scouting the power of poetics where we are.
£160.00 *
Get inspired by nonhuman ways of Being to create innovative, more-than human poetic work.
£160.00 *
Explore how the world of prose can offer fresh new perspectives on your poetry and vice versa.
£118.00 *
Knock loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback from poet, editor, and tutor, Natalie Whittaker.
£160.00 *
Re-imagine Homer's cast of Olympians, sea-monsters, Lotus Eaters, and mere humans with Emily Wilson’s ground-breaking translation.
£160.00 *
Once upon a poem, making your own mythologies poetic as folk.
£260.00 *
Challenge yourself, explore contemporary poetry's cutting edge, and elevate your own writing.
£390.00 *
Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou.
£135.00 *
A Mythopoetic course exploring Archetypal Gods as inspiration for your own poems!
£160.00 *
Distance makes the poetry grow stronger – writing yourself back home.
£260.00 *
Mix up your writing and learn new skills and techniques with Jacqueline Saphra.
£260.00 *
Bring your writing to the next level and explore contemporary poetry’s cutting-edge.
£160.00 *
Making space – poetry of the experimental, visual, and multi-lingual.
£260.00 *
An exciting new advanced workshop group with the much-loved Rachel Long and the benefit of special guest tutors each term.
£180.00 *
The third module in our Pathways Through Poetry series: 'Forms and the Performance of Forms'. Take the next step on your journey to poetic success!
£190.00 *
A blank page – do or don't? The first module in our new Pathways Through Poetry series. Jump in and we'll guide you through the journey to poetic success!
£180.00 *
The second module in our Pathways Through Poetry series: 'Syllable, Stress and Metre'. Take the next step on your journey to poetic success!
£260.00 *
An advanced weekly workshop group with the inimitable Mark Waldron.
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An exciting new advanced workshop group with the much-loved Rachel Long and the benefit of special guest tutors each term.
£260.00 *
Craft in community; the commitment you and your poetry are looking for to progress.
£50.00
A thrilling year-long deep dive into Asian diasporic work with expert tutors, poet Q&As, and the chance to perform yourself!
£90.00 *
Spark your creativity and take your first steps into the world of poetry!
£160.00 *
Writing away from convention and towards making memoir memorable.
£160.00 *
Get inspired in this survey of contemporary Middle Eastern poetry.
£260.00 *
New week, new work! Responding to generative guidance from the finest of prompts with Natasha Hakimi Zapata.
£150.00 *
Listen closely to language and explore the effects of poetry's metrical engine in your own work.
£160.00 *
Looking at looking; positioning the self; translating image into poem.
£160.00 *
Writing form-forward work by looking at formally inventive work old and new.
£55.00 *
The working poet - what nobody tells you about organising your poetic practice, and the poetry it inspires.
£230.00 *
Monthly all-day Saturday workshops with Kathryn Simmonds.
£160.00 *
Nature poetics beyond capturing the scene.
£45.00 *
Turn everyday details into striking poems in this beginner-friendly workshop exploring voice, perspective, and creative ways into writing.
£90.00 *
Join a supportive community for close reading and developmental feedback on your new poems!
£260.00 *
Join this group for close discussion of your writing with acclaimed poet, Richard Price.
£135.00 *
Waking the dead – buried treasure in the poetics of the passed.
£120.00 *
Breaking type – poetry that confounds the printers.
£118.00 *
Oh speaker, my speaker. Varying the narrator – personae with potential.
£55.00 *
Horrible Poetries.
£118.00 *
Get Cuter. The doe-eyed and dangerous does poetic drama.
£118.00 *
The splendidly soggy: writing the wondrous of the wild and the wet.
£45.00 *
Start your poetic journey with this interactive, beginner-friendly workshop with poet, critic and tutor, Isabelle Baafi.
£45.00 *
Turn everyday details into striking poems in this beginner-friendly workshop exploring voice, perspective, and creative ways into writing.
£900.00 *
Monthly Zoom seminars, with MA Core Tutor Meryl Pugh, for those looking to develop the skills necessary for postgraduate poetic study.
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