Wednesday Workshop with Tim Dooley [Summer 2024]
Our long-running weekly workshop with Tim Dooley, for poets looking to develop their individual voice and technique.
* This course will take place on the video-conferencing platform ZOOM *
This popular workshop is suitable for poets who enjoy the opportunity to share their work and receive feedback on a regular basis. New members are welcome as well as those who have been part of the group previously. The emphasis of the workshop will be on the writers’ own work, though Tim will open each session with discussion of a published poem and suggestions for further writing. There will also be opportunities to discuss the work of published poets, issues in contemporary poetry, and explore publishing opportunities. On past experience, there should be time for everyone to present a poem each week, but this need not be new work and it’s fine to sit out a week sometimes and just contribute to discussing others’ work.
10 weekly Zoom sessions on Tuesdays, 2–4pm (GMT), starts 8 May 2024. N.B. there will be no session on 5 June. This is the third of a three-term course and all places are currently reserved for continuing students, who have a 2-week Priority Booking period. Any remaining places will be made available to new students on 11 March.
Concessions & Accessibility
To apply for a concessionary rate, please send relevant documentation showing your eligibility for one of our concessions to [email protected]; conditions of eligibility are detailed here. If you have any questions, wish to be added to the waiting list of a sold-out course, or require any form of adjustment to access our courses, please email [email protected]. For more information visit our Video Courses page.
About Tim Dooley 
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Tim Dooley is a tutor for The Poetry School and a mentor for the prison charity, Koestler Arts. He was reviews and features editor of Poetry London between 2008 and 2018, a visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster from 2016 to 2021, and a judge for the John Pollard International Poetry Competition at Trinity College Dublin in 2019 and 2020. He was previously a schoolteacher for many years. His poetry collections include the Poetry Book Society Recommendations: Tenderness (Smith Doorstop, 2003), Keeping Time (Salt, 2008), and Weemoed (Eyewear, 2017). 2022 saw the publication of a new collection, Discoveries (Two Rivers), his translation of Philippe Jaccottet’s In Winter Light (Two Rivers), and a chapbook, Notes on “The Waste Land” (Hercules Editions) illustrated with paintings by Jock McFadyen.
‘The Poetry School offers an amazing, wonderful, high-calibre, professional, warm, and welcoming environment of tutors and peers in which my poetry and my appreciation of poetry have flourished. I am forever grateful. I will be back for more classes!’