Saturday Sessions with Ros Barber
Monthly all-day Saturday workshops with Ros Barber.
Do you want to take your poetry to a new level? Do you need a gentle boot to write more regularly? Do you want a trustworthy, knowledgeable set of (soon-to-be) friends to give you kind but incisive feedback on your poems?
Then, join this long-running course, with a supportive tutor and friendly students, to be assisted and uplifted in your writing, as we workshop drafts of your poems-in-progress each month, offering considered advice, developmental feedback, and passionate poetic community.
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].
3 all-day sessions on monthly Saturdays: 10.30am – 4.30pm (BST/GMT) on 1 Feb; 8 Mar; 5 Apr. Sessions for this course will take place at The Bindery, 51-53 Hatton Garden, London EC1N 8HN.
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 In-Person Courses work can be found on the In-Person 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 Ros Barber 
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Ros Barber is author of verse novel The Marlowe Papers and three collections of poetry; two with Anvil, the most recent (Material, 2008) a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her critically-acclaimed book, The Marlowe Papers, was published by Sceptre (2012) in the UK and St Martins Press (2013) in the US. In 2011, pre-publication, it was joint winner of the Annual Calvin & Rose G Hoffmann Prize 2011 for a distinguished work on Christopher Marlowe. Ros has had poems published in Faber, Virago, Forward, and Seren anthologies, including Faber’s Poems of the Decade, and her short fiction has been published by Bloomsbury and Serpents Tail. Her poems have also appeared in The Guardian & the Independent on Sunday. Since 2000 Ros Barber has undertaken numerous public art commissions. A book of narrative poems for the Isle of Sheppey was short-listed for SEEDA’s Award for Art in Public Places 2004. Moreover, she has over a decade’s experience of teaching creative writing at the University of Sussex on undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
"I get so much joy from attending the Saturday sessions. It is such a pleasure and honour to hear other's poetry and learn about their lives, while learning how to write poetry. "
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