Stav Poleg Cambridge Seminar 2025/26
Intimate monthly seminars with Stav Poleg in Cambridge.
Monthly seminar groups with Stav Poleg in Cambridge, featuring close reading, in-depth discussion and feedback on your poems-in-progress, as well as conversation around contemporary poetry and guidance on your next steps as a poet. With a maximum of eight students in each group, these seminars provide an intimate setting and generate supportive and critical friendships, helping you to become part of your local poetry community.
Entry into the seminars is by application only. If you would like to sign up, please email [email protected] for information and we will assist you in the application process.
Do not book online before applying.
8 x monthly sessions at the Rock Road Library, Cambridge (CB1 7UG): Classes will run Saturday 10.30am–1pm on the below dates:
11-Oct
22-Nov
20-Dec
17-Jan
21-Feb
21-Mar
18-Apr
16-May
More information about how all our seminars work can be found on the Seminars Course Page.
About Stav Poleg 
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Stav Poleg‘s debut poetry collection, The City (Carcanet, 2022) was chosen for the Financial Times’ Best Summer Books 2022, and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for a First Collection, 2023. Her second poetry collection, The Banquet, is forthcoming from Carcanet in Autumn 2025. Her poetry has appeared on both sides of the Atlantic, in The New Yorker, Kenyon Review, Poetry Daily, Poetry London, Poetry Ireland Review, PN Review and elsewhere. A selection of her work is featured in New Poetries VIII (Carcanet, 2021). Her graphic-novel installation, ‘Dear Penelope: Variations on an August Morning’, created with artist Laura Gressani, was acquired by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Her theatre work was read at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, and the Shunt Vaults, London, and most recently at Kettle’s Yard gallery, Cambridge. She serves on the editorial board of Magma Poetry magazine.
‘The group taught me a lot about accepting feedback graciously and using it to enhance the drafting process. Stav brought some wonderful poetry to start each session.‘