Word Power: Poetry and Ritual Private Course Group with 13 members Explore the ceremony in poetry and discover new processes of writing.
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
Smears & Caresses: the Poetry of Abstract Art (International) Private Group with 14 members Create poems inspired by the most exciting art of the past century
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
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
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
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’
Thrill River Studio Private Course Group with 18 members A moving body, the veins of nature, the flow of life
Routes into Poetry 2017/18 Private Group with 23 members For beginner writers who want to explore some definitions of poetry; and to start some structured learning about rhyme, metre, verse forms, lineation and stanzas.
Two for Joy: Happy Poems Private Course Group with 15 members The radical art of writing defiantly happy poems
Die Like A Wolf: Writing the Non-Human Private Course Group with 14 members Formulate a new poetic language that transcends the merely human
Fully Automated Radical Pessimism (International) Private Course Group with 14 members Writing after and against the new dystopian
New North Poets 2017/18 Private Group with 8 members A private group for poets selected for the New North Poets scheme with The Poetry School and New Writing North. This group is for discussion between participants, Poetry School staff and your tutor, Clare Pollard. Live chats will also take place in this group.
Speaking Out: Finding Your Public Voice Private Course Group with 1 member Poetry is a platform, not an altar
Mosaics from the Broken Mirror – Writing and Revising the Ghazal (Open Workshop) Private Group with 10 members The ghazal makes unique rhetorical demands on the Western writer. In our latest Open Workshop, Jason Schneiderman will be getting you to think through your ghazals and to explore the multiple ways to revise these modular poems. Do you enjoy finding a hand-crafted wooden puzzle in your Christmas stocking more than a satsuma? Prefer origami to sports? Then this may be the poetic challenge for you. Prepare to get crafty with your verse with this most elegant and versatile of forms.