Groups

Shape bold new poems under the mastery of the great sculptors

Going back-to-basics-and-beyond with the essential unit of poetry

Discover your sensuous side and write poems exploring the radiant materiality of interesting objects

Re-juvenate your poems with a bold, new wave of Chinese voices

What can poets learn from short fiction, and vice-versa?

Write against English, take it apart, and explode language altogether

Re-imagine Homer’s cast of Olympians, sea-monsters, Lotus Eaters and mere humans with Emily Wilson’s ground-breaking new translation

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

Incorporate variability, instability, transformation, and change into your writing process

How do we write responsibly about our historical traumas?

Awaken the mysterious, divine power of rocks, rivers, birds, trees, ourselves

Put your poems on the anatomist’s slab and sing the body electric

Conquering the complex, elaborate, diabolical sestina

Be empowered to ‘make it new’ in writing about this most primal, universal force.

Tell, don’t show, with multiloquent new work

Explore the expansive modern tradition of British experimental poetry, as S J Fowler presents a necessarily idiosyncratic insight into the vibrant innovative poetries which have sought originality in the UK over the last 50 years. The sessions will explore the distinctive qualities of the British avant garde and chart a course through an enormous field of writing. Not formed by generation, region or faction, Vanguard explores characteristics that are possessed by, but in no way encompass, the work of many great British poets.

How do we write about our fear of the natural world and its disasters?

This is a closed group for students who took part in the two-day Writing Carmen workshops at the Royal Opera House and the Poetry School.

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

Heading to the seaside this November? The Poetry School will be at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival from 6-8 November, enjoying a brilliant line up of readings and events. Come and find us on our Marketplace stand, where we’ll have a writing prompt Lucky Dip – a selection of miniature writing exercises from selected festival poets. Post your resultant poems here, along with any photos, reviews or other impressions of the Festival.