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All the groups in our Network.

Site-seeing (Autumn 2017)

Private Course Group with 15 members

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

Hyper-Spectacle Studio

Private Course Group with 19 members

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

Keeping Our Wits

Private Course Group with 12 members

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

Routes into Poetry 2016

Private Course Group with 30 members

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.)

The Unsent, Unanswered Letter (Autumn 2017)

Private Course Group with 6 members

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

Ecopoetry

Private Course Group with 16 members

Take a walk on the wild side and explore the diverse world of contemporary nature and eco-poetry with Fiona Benson.

Mixed Borders 2017

Private Group with 26 members

A private group for poets-in-residence and mentors on the 2017 Mixed Borders scheme.

Please do not click ‘Leave Group’ as this will remove you from the group permanently.

Fortnightly Feedback with David Tait

Private Course Group with 19 members

Reinvigorate those discarded poems with feedback from David Tait and fellow students.

The POEM SUBMISSION DEADLINES are as follows:

Poem 1 = May 22

Poem 2 = June 5

Poem 3 = June 19

Poem 4 = July 3

Poem 5 = July 17

 

The Unsent, Unanswered Letter

Private Course Group with 16 members

A course imagining our addressee; how the addressee shifts or remains static, and to whom we most want to reach when we write a poem

MA Summer School 2017

Private Group with 17 members

A Campus group for all students attending the 2017 MA in Writing Poetry Summer School in London.

Routes into Poetry 2016 / 17

Private Group with 20 members

A course for beginners and intermediate writers who want structured learning about rhyme, metre, verse forms, lineation and stanzas.

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 Tammy’s course).

Advanced Poetry with Special Guests

Private Group with 7 members

This advanced course will focus on the development of your own poetry through weekly homework exercises and in-depth feedback on your poems in progress. Up to four visiting poets during the term will give a short reading or discussion their work, answer questions, and offer feedback on student poems. Autumn guests, subject to confirmation, will include Amy Key (Luxe) and William Wootten (poet and literary critic).