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Poetry for Change & Personal Growth: Writing in Crisis & Finding Your Voice
Poetry has the power to heal, resist, and transform. Whether you’re writing to navigate personal challenges, address global crises, or find an expressive outlet, our workshops provide the space, support, and expert guidance to help you craft the best poetic response. Lighting the World: Writing in Times of Crisis – Shazea Quraishi Explore how poetry…
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Freedom in Form: Challenge Your Poetry Boundaries
Are you ready to break free from traditional structures and explore the possibilities of poetry? Our Freedom in Form workshops are designed for poets who want to experiment, challenge conventions, and embrace forms of expression. This is your chance to redefine your creative process and take bold steps in your creative practice. With a focus…
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Unsticking a Stuck Poet: Overcoming Writer’s Block
Feeling stuck? Our Unsticking a Stuck Poet workshops are designed for writers in need of fresh inspiration. These workshops provide practical strategies, prompts, and exercises to help you get back into your writing flow. Whether you’re looking for ways to break through mental barriers or just need a little guidance to get started, these courses…
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Summer 2025 – Quick Course Guide
Poetry School Quick Course Guide for Summer 2025 Term
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Explore Place, Fragmentation, and Identity: Transform Your Poetry in 2025
Poetry is a way to explore who we are, where we belong, and a means to create identity and meaning in a fragmented world. This season, we’re offering three transformative courses designed to deepen your craft and perspective: 1. Women, Writing, and Place Use your writing to explore personal identity and the intersections that shape us.In this…
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Master Your Craft: Poetic Technique & Advanced Workshops
Ready to take your poetry to the next level? Our Master Your Craft workshops are designed for poets who want to push past the basics and dive deep into advanced techniques. Whether you’re looking to sharpen your skills, experiment with new forms, or refine your voice, these courses offer the guidance and tools you need…
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End of Year Creative Push: Ancestors & Traditions
This winter, reconnect with your heritage through our End of Year Creative Push: Ancestors & Traditions courses. Designed for poets interested in honouring ancestral wisdom, cultural heritage, and poetic traditions, this series offers a reflective close to the year. Whether you’re drawn to Persian verse or Italian contemporary poetry, these courses invite you to enrich…
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Winter Muse: People & Places
Explore the art of capturing people, places, and character in our Winter Muse: People & Places courses. This Winter Muse series is ideal for for poets aiming to build writing community and explore place and people-centred poetry. You’ll refine your technique, deepen your ability to evoke character, and create striking poems that linger in readers’…
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Push Your Boundaries: Experimental & Interdisciplinary Writing
Take your poetry beyond the page this winter with our Push Your Boundaries: Experimental & Interdisciplinary Writing courses. Designed for adventurous writers, these workshops offer a chance to explore the future of poetry through art, sound, and experimentation. If you’re eager to push the limits of your practice, these courses are for you. Interdisciplinary &…
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Winter Inspiration: Seasons of Verse
Embrace the shifting seasons in your poetry with our Winter Inspiration: Seasons of Verse courses. Designed to bring nature, myth, and introspection to your writing, these workshops are perfect for cozy autumn and winter evenings, where poets can dive into seasonal themes, environmental reflection, and reach the global through the personal. Each of these courses…
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Build Your Writing Community: The Art of the Workshop
This winter, join a warm, supportive space for poets with workshops designed for beginner, intermediate or advanced poets. This workshop series helps you refine your craft, find your authentic voice, and connect with other poets in a welcoming, collaborative environment.
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Ignite Change Through Poetry: Spring Workshops for the Next Generation of Writers
In a world grappling with crises from east to west, the power of the written word becomes more urgent than ever.
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Spring 2025 – Quick Course Guide
Poetry School Quick Course Guide Spring 2025
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What Is Revolutionary Poetics? by Mischa Foster Poole
Here is Mischa Foster Poole talking about his course Revolutionary Poetics: Writing Against the Grain; Alternate art; busting open the poem to embrace new and experimental forms. (5) This is because the tools that we have to hand are provided by the hegemonic ideology, the mode of production that seeks to ideologically reproduce itself through the…
Mischa Foster Poole
What Is Poetic Theft? with Louis Glazzard
Here is Louis Glazzard talking about his course Poetic Theft: From Inspiration to Transformation; A transformative workshop series about harnessing your inspirations to expand your writing. In Pursuit of Originality… Everything I’ve ever created has been inspired by something. Well, almost everything. When I first started writing I was obsessed with being original. In fact,…
Louis Glazzard
Wallpaper: Poems & Houses with Laura Scott
Here’s Laura Scott on her upcoming course, Poems & Houses; House & home; poetics of our storied buildings. My house and the ghost of a doorway In my house there’s the ghost of a doorway. I can’t remember when I first noticed it, but I do remember the gentle shock of running my hand over…
Laura Scott
Science & Poetry: The Laboratory of Verse! with Mario Petrucci
Here’s Mario Petrucci on his upcoming course, Science & Poetry: The Laboratory of Verse; Fissile material; experiment with scientific stanzas and supercharge your poetic skills. Science as a metaphor As someone versed in quantum physics, I’m fascinated by metaphor, the way everything (as in the quantum world) can become everything else. That’s the engine-room of my…
Mario Petrucci
Dear Rwanda: Creating a Poetry Souvenir
Here’s Isy Mead on her upcoming course, Poetry Souvenirs, keepsakes from over there; capturing the foreign without the fake. Rwanda, or ‘The Land of a Thousand Hills’, has a beauty beyond imagining. It is characterised by ubiquitous hillside terraces and spreading banana groves, by stunning, bright-green tea-fields to the south, and green and gold safari…
Isabella Mead
Wilder Swimming – Blog by Penny Boxall on ‘Tales from the Wetlands’
A blog by Penny Boxall on her upcoming course ‘Tales from the Wetlands Studio’ The first time I went to Estonia, I was surprised at the extent to which tales and folklore are woven into the landscape there. Friends told me you must not sit on the sandy beach until the first thunderstorm of the…
Penny Boxall
The Freedom of Writing
Michal Kamil Piotrowski on his course: ‘A Kaleidoscope of Forms: Innovative Poetry in the 21st Century’ Hello! In this post I will write a bit about experimental poetry. But first – what makes poetry experimental or innovative? In my opinion, the most important aspect is that, unlike traditional poetry, it concentrates on the future, it…
Michał Kamil Piotrowski
Blog on our Climate Crisis Poetry Course ‘Burning Gaze: Revisiting the Romantics During Global Heating.’
Here’s Glyn Edwards on his upcoming course, Burning Gaze: Revisiting the Romantics During Global Heating, exploring romanticism and climate crisis poetry. ‘Nearly Daffodils’: BBC6, English Teacher(s), Wordsworth, and Adrian Henri BBC 6 Music has three playlists; the selection of songs appear on rotation through the day. Sometimes, a song that received intermittent radio play months…
Glyn Edwards
Now I Have a Poem, HO-HO-HO
Chrissy Williams on her forthcoming festive one-day poetry workshop, ‘Yippee-Ki-Yay: Writing Poems Inspired by DIE HARD’. Ah, Christmas, the most wonderful time of the year, a time for sharing warm fires, hastily wrapped gifts, and generational discord. Like many, I gravitate towards Die Hard at Christmas: a film about family and violent resolution with all…
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Spring 2024 – Quick Course Guide
Our Spring Term is now live and we’ve got a whole host of brilliant tutors and poetry courses lined up, so be sure to book promptly to avoid disappointment. Below is our handy Quick Course Guide, where you’ll find everything you’ll need to know. Online Courses INTERACTIVE Our classic 10-week online poetry courses with Live…
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‘What are we supposed to use, harsh language?’
Chrissy Williams on using the movie ALIENS to create her one-day poetry workshop, Short Controlled Bursts. When poets, myself included, turn to cinema for inspiration, it’s often to complex films with a philosophical bent which are crafted with deliberately poetic tools; not machine guns, armored cars, and aliens who burst through the chests of their…
Chrissy Williams
Autumn 2023 – Quick Course Guide
Our Autumn Term is now live and we’ve got a whole host of brilliant tutors and courses lined up, so be sure to book promptly to avoid disappointment. Below is our handy Quick Course Guide, where you’ll find everything you’ll need to know. Online Courses INTERACTIVE Our classic 10-week online courses with Live Chats. The…
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