Against English: Dialects, Distortions and New Vocabularies Private Group with 2 members Write against English, take it apart, and explode language altogether
Short Short Fiction: The Tiniest of Stories Private Course Group with 14 members What can poets learn from short fiction, and vice-versa?
Tell Me About a Complicated Man: Poetry Inspired by ‘The Odyssey’ Private Course Group with 13 members Re-imagine Homer’s cast of Olympians, sea-monsters, Lotus Eaters and mere humans with Emily Wilson’s ground-breaking new translation
Integrated Circuits: Creating Digital Poetry Private Course Group with 5 members Create poems with digital tools
International poetry connections Public Group with 36 members Posts relating to websites, magazines, events and festivals which welcome international involvement
A Room Of One’s Own Public Group with 41 members “I don’t believe in writing every day, though I’m at my desk every day’ – Stanley Kunitz Where do you write? Send us a photo! This group was created in conjunction with the essay ‘A Room of One’s Own’ by Kim Moore. Read it here: http://campus.poetryschool.com/a-room-of-ones-own/
MA in Writing Poetry 2017/19 Private Group with 14 members This is a group for students enrolled on the Poetry School’s MA in Writing Poetry in partnership with Newcastle University, 2017/19.
Taboo: Saying the Unsaid Private Course Group with 14 members Confront forbidden topics through a literary lens
Transreading the Baltics Private Course Group with 12 members Opening up the under-recognised poetries of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia
Fortnightly Feedback with Degna Stone Private Course Group with 17 members Knock those loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback
At Risk: Going Somewhere Different in Poetry (Summer 2018) Private Course Group with 15 members How can poetry speak to us if it does not take risks, say something bold and new, make adventurous leaps with language and form?
Eternal Sunshine: The Elements of Poetic Language (Masterclass) Private Course Group with 14 members A lyrical look at feeling, forgetting, intuition, image, and seeing the world in a totally new way
Archiving Your Self Yourself: Quantified Self Studio Private Course Group with 18 members Archive, document and catalogue carefully selected moments of your life past, present and future
Fortnightly Feedback with Eric Berlin Private Group with 19 members Knock those loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback Schedule: POEM SUBMISSION 1 = 21 MAY POEM SUBMISSION 2 = 4 JUNE POEM SUBMISSION 3 = 18 JUNE POEM SUBMISSION 4 = 2 JULY POEM SUBMISSION 5 = 23 JULY
Each Thing’s a Thief: Memory, Theft and Tradition (International, Summer 2018) Private Course Group with 14 members Avoid plagiarism, but explore the creative activity of appropriation and “stealing”
More Life: Philosophy as Poetry (Summer 2018) Private Course Group with 15 members Use philosophical concepts to sharpen your poetry, and poetry to bring those concepts to life
Writing Carmen Private Group with 14 members This is a closed group for students who took part in the two-day Writing Carmen workshops at the Royal Opera House and the Poetry School.
Discovering the Divine (International) Private Course Group with 13 members How can poetry help us discover the ecstatic in the everyday?
Decolonising Translation: Poetry, Power, Relation, and Difference (Transreading) Private Course Group with 15 members If translation is a movement, who is permitted to cross?
The Opposite House: But we never go in that room! Private Course Group with 15 members Play congenial hosts to your psychoanalytical ‘opposites’