Courses

Swim in the waters of joyous experimentalism to inspire new innovations of your own!

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

Take inspiration from the enfant terrible of Surrealism and the master of symbolist writing.

Crafting connection – poetic body meets world.

“There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.”

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

Explore how the world of prose can offer fresh new perspectives on your poetry and vice versa. 

Explore oral history, transcripts, and documentary in your poetry.

Knock loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback from poet, critic, and tutor, Zakia Carpenter-Hall.

Expand your ekphrasis as we Transread Paul Klee's 'degenerate art' art into innovative new poems.

Conjure, invoke, charm, and create with the raw magic of poetic language.

Find form and freedom in the famous fourteen.

Explore the treasures of textual archives from around the world with experimental poet-publishers, Autumn Richardson & Richard Skelton of Corbel Stone Press.

Show your caring side as we explore the possibilities of a more caring poetics.

Explore environmental justice, ecological grief, and environmental memory through innovative multimedia poetry.

Inspiration from the East – Transread Japanese forms, poets, and traditions with Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana.

Join the great poetic conversation and think about how to steal, allude, translate, remix, modernise, and answer back.

Thirteen ways of writing an ode to a darkling skylark.

Learn to capture a reader’s attention within seconds and leave them wanting more.

Write through loss, in all its forms, to find what you've gained on the other side of grief.