Groups

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

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

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.

Explore what we as poets can borrow and learn from film’s often lucid, surreal yet recognizable language.

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

Don your favourite whimple and explore dragon-slaying, courtly romance and fabliau with neo-medievalist Tom Chivers

Learn how language can nourish, make sense from chaos and enable us to survive troubles and traumas.

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

Perhaps now more than ever, our poetry should engage with news and global events

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