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Autumn 2025 – Quick Course Guide

Our Autumn Term is now live! We have a whole host of brilliant tutors and poetry courses ready for you to pick from and, as they tend to sell out really fast, we’ve made this Autumn 2025 Quick Course Guide to help guide you to the right course.

Online Courses

INTERNATIONAL

Online courses without Live Chats, suitable for students in all time zones.

“There’s no money in poetry, but there’s no poetry in money, either.” 

Summon the poetics of the seasonally sensitive with dark arts, folklore, and myth.  

Explore how the world of prose can offer fresh new perspectives on your poetry and vice versa. 

Explore oral history, transcripts, and documentary in your poetry. 

Find form and freedom in the famous fourteen. 

Show your caring side as we explore the possibilities of a more caring poetics.

Explore environmental justice, ecological grief, and environmental memory through innovative multimedia poetry. 

Join the great poetic conversation and think about how to steal, allude, translate, remix, modernise, and answer back.   

TRANSREADING

Transcend culture, languages, and genres to write poems and translations in response to wide readings.

Expand your ekphrasis as we Transread Paul Klee’s ‘degenerate art’ art into innovative new poems. 

Explore the treasures of textual archives from around the world with experimental poet-publishers, Autumn Richardson & Richard Skelton of Corbel Stone Press.

Inspiration from the East – Transread Japanese forms, poets, and traditions with Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana. 

MASTERCLASS

Advanced and in-depth poetry courses focusing on craft and theory.

Swim in the waters of joyous experimentalism to inspire new innovations of your own! 

Explore the joy and resilience of pastoral writing from Global Majority poets. 

Take inspiration from the enfant terrible of Surrealism and the master of symbolist writing. 

Crafting connection – poetic body meets world. 

FEEDBACK

Receive thoughtful critiques of 5 poems from your peers and an esteemed tutor.

Knock loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback from poet, critic, and tutor, Zakia Carpenter-Hall. 

STUDIOS

Short, intensive poetry courses focusing on writing and inspiration.

Conjure, invoke, charm, and create with the raw magic of poetic language.

Thirteen ways of writing an ode to a darkling skylark.

Learn to capture a reader’s attention within seconds and leave them wanting more. 

Write through loss, in all its forms, to find what you’ve gained on the other side of grief.

Video/In-Person

SHORT COURSE

A radical new course exploring trans- & multilingual writing with the innovative Astrid Alben.

Explore the effects of poetry’s metrical engine as we listen closely to language.

What lives and breathes in the spaces between moment and moment. What possibilities arise from these bridges of quiet? 

“Babies eat books. But they spit out fragments which can be put together afterward.”

Spark your creativity and take your first steps into the world of poetry! 

Join a supportive community for close reading and developmental feedback on your new poems! 

1-2 DAY WORKSHOPS

Push your poetic skills, find the sparks behind stories, and explore the harmony between words and pictures when writing for children.

Explore Lee Miller’s trailblazing photographs at Tate Britain as inspiration for new poems.

3 TERM COURSES

Please note our Advanced Workshops are by application only, so if you are a new student or wishing to book a workshop with a tutor you haven’t worked before, please send across 3 samples of your poetry to [email protected] before you book your place.

Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou. Application only.

Mix up your writing and learn new skills and techniques with Jacqueline Saphra. 

Challenge yourself, elevate your writing, and take the next steps in your poetry career. Application only.

Bring your writing to the next level and explore contemporary poetry’s cutting-edge.

An exciting advanced workshop group with the much-loved Rachel Long and the benefit of special guest tutors each term. Application only.

Our long-running weekly workshop with Tim Dooley, for poets looking to develop their individual voice and technique.

An advanced weekly workshop group with the inimitable Mark Waldron. Application only.

How can we write poetry through times of ecological emergency, perpetual war, or personal crises?

Join this group for close discussion of your writing with acclaimed poet, Richard Price. Application only.

A weekly workshop for developing poets looking to improve their writing through feedback and close reading.

Monthly all-day Saturday workshops with Kathryn Simmonds.

If you’d like to read more about what each course offers, please visit our Courses page. If you need any information on concessions or bursaries, please have a look through our Financial Support page or send an email to [email protected] and we’d be happy to help.

Happy booking!

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