Groups

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

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

This is a closed group for students enrolled on Ros Barber’s Saturday Sessions. To join this group, please contact [email protected]

An online staffroom for Poetry School tutors. Bring your own biscuits.

Take a playful approach to the possibilities of form and learn to free your writing processes.

An advanced online course demonstrating the value of omission, redaction, aphorism and minimalism, and broadening your ideas of what is and isn’t a poem.

Forage in the undergrowth for new poems on history, folklore and all things wild

Explore the plural possibilities of extending your poetry into sequences

Twist and reshape fairytales, the tales from your childhoods and adulthoods

Flip writer’s block on its head and turn lack of inspiration into a source for creative ideas

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

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

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

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

An online group for Jacqui Saphra’s intermediate group.

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

a test

Sharpen your wits with a look at 17th century poetry through contemporary eyes and at contemporary poetry through 17th century eyes.

This course is appropriate for beginners and those who have written some poetry but who would like to take a more structured approach to their writing. You will examine the basics of rhyme, metre, verse forms, lineation and stanza structure. Through exercises, reading, writing and feedback, you will also begin to construct a voice, to create shapes on the page and develop your first drafts with confidence. (If you are a
complete beginner, we recommend you download our course How to Write Poetry before you take Tamar’s course.)

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