Groups

Explore how it feels to think – to hope, to notice, to change – and in so doing paint a vivid and familiar picture of how it feels to be human.

Set sail on an adventure to craft poems for young audiences.

Narrate, reflect on and articulate great works of visual art

A back-up group for when your chat room isn’t working.

29 Sep – Introduction / Workshop / Exploration

6 Oct – Rowan Evans – Sound poetry / Poetry as sound

13 Oct – Alice Zawadzki – Finding the music in words

20 Oct – Samantha Whates – The craft of songwriting

27 Oct – Richard Scott – Music in poetry and libretto

3 Nov – Informal sharing/performance at the Canvas Café, Brick Lane (Covid permitting)

10 weekly sessions on Fridays, 11am – 1pm, starts 2 October. This is the first of a three-term course.

Do you have a heap of discarded poems which just won’t work no matter how many revisions you make? The Poetry School’s Fortnightly Feedback provide a place for the general improvement of left-for-dead poems in need of resuscitation. Bring poems of any shape or size once a fortnight and receive detailed feedback from your tutor and general advice from fellow students. These courses are ideal for those looking to ready poems for magazine submission.

10 weekly sessions on Wednesdays, 6.45–8.45pm, starts 30 September. This is the first of a three-term course.

10 weekly sessions on Thursdays, 6.45-8.45pm, starts 1 October. This is the first of a three-term course.

Easter Extra Course Spring 2020

A group for poetry in translation and translated poets. Post recent discoveries, theory, questions and your own translations or poems you’d like someone else to help translate. Partly inspired by Modern Poetry in Translation magazine (check out their wonderful archive: http://www.mptmagazine.com/)

Session 1: The Poetry of Museums
3 Aug, 7–9pm (UK time), live on Zoom
Assignment 1 deadline: 9 Aug.

Session 2: The Imaginary Museum
10 Aug, Campus only, no live session
Assignment 2 deadline: 16 Aug.

Session 3: The Impossible Museum
17 Aug, Campus only, no live session
Assignment 3 deadline: 23 Aug.

Session 4: Queering Museum Poetry
24 Aug, Campus only, no live session
Assignment 4 deadline: 31 Aug.

Session 5: Museum Manifestos
31 Aug, 7–9pm (UK time), live on Zoom
Assignment 5 deadline: 6 Sep
(final feedback posted by 7 Sep).

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.

Group for Spring Term Course 2020

Group for Summer Term Course 2020

13 Jul – Course start & Assignment 1 set
20 Jul – Assignment 1 Deadline & Assignment 2 set
27 Jul – Feedback 1, Assignment 2 Deadline, & Assignment 3 set
3 Aug – Feedback 2, Assignment 3 Deadline, & Assignment 4 set
10 Aug – Feedback 3 & Assignment 4 Deadline
17 Aug – Feedback 4 & course end

Group for Spring Term Course 2020

11 May – Course start & Assignment 1 set
18 May – Assignment 1 Deadline
25 May – Live Chat 1 & Assignment 2 set
1 Jun – Assignment 2 Deadline
8 Jun – Live Chat 2 & Assignment 3 set
15 Jun – Assignment 3 Deadline
22 Jun – Live Chat 3 & Assignment 4 set
29 Jun – Assignment 4 Deadline
6 Jul – Live Chat 4 & Assignment 5 set
13 Jul – Assignment 5 Deadline
20 Jul – Live Chat 5 & course end

Group for Summer Term Course 2020.

5 May – Course start & Assignment 1 set
12 May – Assignment 1 Deadline
19 May – Feedback 1 & Assignment 2 set
26 May – Assignment 2 Deadline
2 Jun – Feedback 2 & Assignment 3 set
9 Jun – Assignment 3 Deadline
16 Jun – Feedback 3 & Assignment 4 set
14 Jul – Assignment 4 Deadline
21 Jul – Feedback 4 & Assignment 5 set
28 Jul – Assignment 5 Deadline
04 Aug – Feedback 5 & Course end

Group for Summer Term Course 2020.

7 May – Course start & Assignment 1 set
14 May – Assignment 1 Deadline
21 May – Feedback 1 & Assignment 2 set
28 May – Assignment 2 Deadline
4 Jun – Feedback 2 & Assignment 3 set
11 Jun – Assignment 3 Deadline
18 Jun – Feedback 3 & Assignment 4 set
16 Jul – Assignment 4 Deadline
23 Jul – Feedback 4 & Assignment 5 set
30 Jul – Assignment 5 Deadline
6 Aug – Feedback  5 & Course end

Got that writing itch but not feeling inspired enough to write a full poem? Then come play with the sounds, meanings, letters and spellings of words in our virtual sandpit for poetic idling. Join this group and try your hand at various word games, procedures and puzzles, including anagrams, acrostics, logograms, limericks, concrete poems, magic squares, cryptics, pseudromes, chronograms, ladders, pictonyms and more. Suggestions and contributions encouraged.