Poetry SchoolOur Spring 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 Spring 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.
Summon the poetics of the seasonally sensitive with dark arts, folklore, and myth.
Understanding our ancestors; form and freedom in anglophone poetics.
Bring your subjects to life with poetry of close attention and individual focus.
Capturing temporality in your own personal poetics.
Explore new approaches in your writing through the lens of pop culture!
TRANSREADING
Transcend culture, languages, and genres to write poems and translations in response to wide readings.
Write poetry at the pointy end – pioneers, protest, and poetics of the possible.
Explore extraordinary Persian poetics as inspiration for your own work.
Discover current Italian women poets writing beyond the traditional.
Parisienne pleasures – Paris as poetic muse.
MASTERCLASS
Advanced and in-depth poetry courses focusing on craft and theory.
Unshackle your language and transform your poetry with liberation poetics.
Methods of making; start with art and a feminist approach to ekphrasis.
Join the weird, multispecies crew of our compost-bin spaceship, Earth.
Enquiries into the ecological – researching poetic responses to academic studies on the environment.
Explore the intersection of writing, drawing, music, and performance as we create new work, adjacent to language.
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 teacher, Jennifer Lee Tsai.
STUDIOS
Short, intensive poetry courses focusing on writing and inspiration.
It’s all in a kiss! Join us for an intimate course with interdisciplinary artist and poet Tice Cin, exploring the kiss in poetry.
What are we talking about when we talk about the North?
Unveiling the unseen for revelatory, experimental poetics.
Video/In-Person Courses
SHORT COURSES
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!
What training do you do to sustain and maintain yourself as a poet? Explore the essential work of writerly ‘technique’, in an all new edition of this popular course.
Structure storied poems and narrate like a natural.
Gboyega: Locating selfhood, seen-ness, and invisibility in Adam. Decent.
Perfect your poetic practice (and get answers to questions you’ve been too afraid to ask!).
1-2 DAY WORKSHOPS
Peek at queerness out the corner of your eye and learn to write into your subconscious.
Explore the rich tapestry of embodied, localised female experience in your writing.
From manuscript to collection – what to know as you prepare for submission.
Blow-up to glow-up; use non-traditional means to make magic material.
Risk and reward – saying un-sayable things.
3-TERM COURSES
Our flagship weekly workshop groups where you’ll find thoughtful critique and a welcoming poetry community.
These 3-term courses are currently in a Priority Booking period, meaning they are only available to students continuing from the previous term. We will open any remaining spaces to new students on Monday 18 November. If you would like to be added to the waiting list for this, please email [email protected].
Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou.
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.
An exciting, advanced workshop group with the innovative Astrid Alben.
Bring your writing to the next level and explore contemporary poetry’s cutting-edge.
An exciting new advanced workshop group with the much-loved Rachel Long and the benefit of special guest tutors each term.
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.
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.
A weekly workshop for developing poets looking to improve their writing through feedback and close reading.
Monthly all-day Saturday workshops with Ros Barber.
If you’d like to read more, 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]. Happy booking!
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