Groups

Stay put and explore the rich and peculiar landscapes that roll under your poetry

Reinvigorate those discarded poems with feedback from Claire Trévien and fellow students.

Learn how language can nourish, make sense from chaos and enable us to survive troubles and traumas.

Raid the artist’s studio and borrow compositional techniques to apply to the writing of poetry

Craft musical poems and investigate how sound can work in the poetic line

Explore the ceremony in poetry and discover new processes of writing.

Be empowered to ‘make it new’ in writing about this most primal, universal force.

Choose love, write against brokenness and towards the idea of praise

The poems and prompts on this course will inspire you to revisit your child-artist and recall moments that will catalyse future creative expression.

A course imagining our addressee; how the addressee shifts or remains static, and to whom we most want to reach when we write a poem

Perhaps now more than ever, our poetry should engage with news and global events

Turn to the living oral literature of stand-up comedy for lessons that apply to your poems

The Line Break is a free monthly podcast about writing poetry, hosted by Ryan Van Winkle and produced by Colin Fraser. During The Line Break, Colin and Ryan will be re-visiting the archives and bringing you some of their favourite interviews and readings with poets from around the world. Blended with the archive recordings will be Ryan’s exclusive new commentary, introducing fresh themes, additional ideas, and creative provocations.

Each episode, Ryan will also offer a few ‘poetry sparks’ for you to try out, opportunities to pause the podcast and work on your own poem-writing assignments. Every episode will offer a multitude of these fun exercises that can be easily fitted into a lunch break or the commute home.

You can use this group to listen to the podcast, upload new work inspired by each episode, and share other related material. And Ryan will be popping his head in and out too, so don’t feel afraid to ask a question!

Full details here: http://campus.poetryschool.com/the-line-break-new-monthly-poetry-podcast/

A Campus group for all students attending the 2017 MA in Writing Poetry Summer School in London.

Explore the plural possibilities of extending your poetry into sequences

Keep your work vital and disruptive in a shifting world by writing poetry where it has no business being

Evoke those feelings that are most difficult to articulate by writing letter poems to real and imagined, present and absent, recipients

Freewritten verse both free and formal! ‘Freewriting’ is writing continuously for a set period of time without regard to spelling, grammar, or topic. It produces raw, often unusable material, but often helps writers overcome blocks of apathy and self-criticism. Use this group to upload your automatic efforts – there’s a good idea in there somewhere…

Take a walk on the wild side and explore the diverse world of contemporary nature and eco-poetry with Fiona Benson.

Participate in live conversations with some of the most successful and exciting poets, editors and publishers working today. Join us twice a month for an intimate, interactive audience with some of the great names and brightest new stars in poetry, covering every aspect of their creative life and writing career.

Questions are submitted ahead of time into the Q&A group. On the day of the live chat, a running order will be published and each user will be called up to ask their question in turn by the moderator, with the opportunity for a follow-up question. Transcripts are provided for all Q&As after each event. Details for all upcoming Q&A’s can be found in the group calendar.