What Now? with Wayne Holloway Smith (Intermediate) [Summer 2024]
Bring your writing to the next level and explore contemporary poetry’s cutting-edge.
* This course will take place on the video-conferencing platform ZOOM *
Have you been writing poems for a while but aren’t sure where to go now? Would you like advice on different directions to take your drafts-in-progress? This course will present the many different answers to one of the essential questions in poetry: ‘what now?’. Whether you’re looking to be introduced to new writers, expand your practice, or start getting your poems competition-ready, this is the group for you.
Over each term, prize-winning tutor Wayne Holloway-Smith will guide you through some of the most interesting poetry being written today, lead discussions of your own work with a supportive network of poet-peers, and offer advice on the next steps for your poetry.
10 weekly Zoom sessions on Tuesdays, 6.45–8.45pm (GMT), starts 14 May 2024. 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 Wayne Holloway-Smith 
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Wayne Holloway-Smith has published two collections of poetry, Alarum (Bloodaxe 2017), a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice, and Love Minus Love (Bloodaxe 2020), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. He won the National Poetry Competition in 2018. Additionally, his pocketbook, Beloved, in case you’ve been wondering was published by Donut Press in 2011; I CAN’T WAIT FOR THE WENDING, an experimental unbound book of poems, was published by Prototype in 2018; his latest work, Lobsters, was published by Makina Books in 2021. He is currently the editor for Poetry Review.
‘I gained a considerable knowledge of contemporary poetry on this course that I wasn’t expecting. Along with honest and useful individual feedback on work-in-progress, this made for a very complete course that was both a challenge and a pleasure to be part of. Many thanks to Wayne and Poetry School for the opportunity!’