Groups

This is a group for students enrolled on the Poetry School’s MA in Writing Poetry in partnership with Newcastle University, 2017/19.

Time-jump a millennium to poetry’s dawn in Anglo-Saxon riddling

Respect existence or expect resistance

Write your self to find yourself

Formulate a new poetic language that transcends the merely human

Trace the prose poem’s origins from Rimbaud to Rankine

Rejuvenate your poems with a bold, new wave of Chinese voices

Imagine new narratives from history’s spectres

Compose fresh responses to Ancient Greek and Latin texts and fragments

Discover the levers and mechanisms that power free verse forms

Manipulate new meanings with cutting, folding, and chance encounters

Deep-dive into poetry’s dark side

Explore what matters to you most by mining moments of magnitude in your life.

This is the CAMPUS Group for students enrolled on ‘The Urban Pastoral’ course led by Tim Dooley & Tamar Yoseloff.

Explore how women have claimed the sonnet as a vehicle of self-expression, and write your own sonnets.

Your full schedule is now as follows…

July 3rd = Assignment 1 posted

July 10th = Assignment 2 posted

July 11th = POEM SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR ASSIGNMENT 1

July 17th = Assignment 3 posted / POEM SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR ASSIGNMENT 2

July 24th = POEM SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR ASSIGNMENT 3

A Campus Group for Ellen Cranitch’s Autumn Workshop Group.

This course focuses on finding new approaches to writing poetry. It draws on a range of eclectic influences in order to inspire. Each week we’ll probe the fresh and the less familiar so as to galvanise our own work. From Anne Carson’s ‘box’ poems to Vladimir Nabokov’s coloured sounds, and from Iceland’s epic ‘The Kalevala’ to metaphor in its most secretive guises, every lesson will be energised by alternate viewpoints. Plenty of discussion and feedback on students’ own poems each session.

‘You said “I’ll go to another country, go to another shore, find another city better than this one.”‘ – C.P. Cavafy. What is it that drives people to the city? Do we get lost or are we reborn? What lures us to particular cities? A sense of history? Or its limitless opportunities for companionship? On this online course we will be ‘hitting the streets’ (as Queneau might have it), diving into dark alleyways, discovering and delighting poetry and prose that has been inspired by some of the greatest cities in the world. Over fortnightly sessions we will write our own poems and narratives in response to the cities we have known, and the cities we haven’t, as well as considering The Global City – the ur-city, that almost ineffable Shangri-la that somehow simultaneously exists in all cities at once. Featuring work from all around the world by, amongst others, Tomas Transtromer, Ocean Vuong, Charles Simic, Italo Calvino, Toni Morrison and Charles Dickens. It promises to be both the best of courses and the worst of courses…

Probe the (dys)functions and politics of family life

In the latest instalment of our Transreading series, discover voices from the central countries of our divided continent.

Celebrate present-day Russia through its poetry, and create your own new translations and trans-readings