The Poetry School

Register

Sign In using your Campus Account

Upcoming Highlights

A selection of Courses & Workshops we're running soon

Subscribe to our Newsletter

Drop us your email address and we’ll send you the occasional friendly update.

&

Follow Us

Get our updates via your network of choice.

Recent Blog Updates

Articles, Poems, Tips & Advice from our Staff and Campus Community.

Translation as Creative Writing 

As part of our Poetry Craft series, Steve Komarnyckyj discusses the craft of translation in creative writing.  Do you think every act of writing is a kind of translation?  We are all translators. Everything we do is an act of translation. Our brains interpret the sensory data flooding our perceptions. Each of us inhabits a world that we have “translated“…

Read More

How to Write About Your Family

In this series, we interview our tutors about poetry and its place in their world. These interviews will cover creative writing tips, excelling in a poetry workshop, building a literary career, and finding your poetic voice. Here’s Kit Griffiths on how to write about your family. When you start writing about your family, what’s the…

Read More

Nick Makoha – T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes

Welcome to our Writers’ Notes for the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist. These are educational resources for poets looking to develop their practice and learn from some of contemporary poetry’s most exciting and accomplished voices. Here’s Nick Makoha on his collection The New Carthaginians. Blurring the Boundary Esther Kondo Heller said The New Carthaginians breaks the conventions…

Read More
Christmas Challenge Big Give Pathways Through Poetry

Christmas Challenge Big Give: Pathways Through Poetry

Pathways Through Poetry with The Poetry School £5,000 will enable 5 gifted, under-represented poets to access our new Pathways Through Poetry programme, through fully sponsored places and, in so doing, imbue the poetry landscape with vital new voices. By ‘under-represented poets’ we mean talented creatives who face barriers to opportunities due to mental health issues,…

Read More
courses for putting together a pamphlet

Courses for Putting Together a Pamphlet

If you’ve been writing for a while and want to put together a pamphlet or debut collection, we have some advanced courses taught by award-winning poets, as well as workshops that will help you develop your craft and think originally about your voice. Essential Patterns in Poetry Masterclass  Test out techniques and explore the repeating…

Read More
See our Latest Programme