Groups

Short Short Fiction: The Tiniest of Stories

Private Course Group with 14 members

What can poets learn from short fiction, and vice-versa?

The God in the Forest: Nature Mysticism

Private Course Group with 15 members

Awaken the mysterious, divine power of rocks, rivers, birds, trees, ourselves

Conscious Tracks: British Modernism (Masterclass)

Private Course Group with 12 members

Excavate from the language hoard of radical, underground and late modernist British poetry

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.

Possibilities of the Line (International)

Private Course Group with 12 members

Going back-to-basics-and-beyond with the essential unit of poetry

We Cannot Stop the Rumbling Trains: Contemporary Chinese Poetry (Transreading)

Private Course Group with 14 members

Re-juvenate your poems with a bold, new wave of Chinese voices

MA in Writing Poetry 2018/20

Private Group with 6 members

This is a group for students enrolled on the Poetry School’s MA in Writing Poetry in partnership with Newcastle University, 2018/20.

Mslexia (‘the magazine for women who write’) and The Poetry School have teamed up for National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo – http://www.napowrimo.net), the annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. We’ll have a writing prompt a day for you throughout the month to whirl you into a frenzy of creativity. Share the results on CAMPUS or save them up for Mslexia’s (women only) poetry competition https://mslexia.co.uk/competition/poetry-competition/ – let us know how you’re getting on.

Aldeburgh Poetry Festival 2015

Private Group with 9 members

Heading to the seaside this November? The Poetry School will be at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival from 6-8 November, enjoying a brilliant line up of readings and events. Come and find us on our Marketplace stand, where we’ll have a writing prompt Lucky Dip – a selection of miniature writing exercises from selected festival poets. Post your resultant poems here, along with any photos, reviews or other impressions of the Festival.

Blackout Poets

Public Group with 37 members

A space for poets to show poems created by Modernist techniques such blackout, erasure, cut-ups and collage.

The Art of Memory: Poetry of the Past and Present

Private Course Group with 15 members

Investigate how poetry can engage with memory, both individual and collective, in order to reflect on the past and produce innovative work aiming towards the future.