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The Poetry School offers a programme of classes to teach adults to write poetry. From the ongoing commitment of a year-long course to a burst of inspiration from a one-day workshop, we offer poets of all levels the opportunity to improve their skills. We are open to everyone, regardless of qualifications or experience.

The Poetry School started life in 1997 in London and continues to flourish there. As we have grown, we have established teaching centres in Manchester, Liverpool, Exeter, Bath, Bristol, Birmingham, Durham, Middlesbrough, Newcastle, Norwich and Cambridge as well as a growing range of online activities.

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Publishing Your Poetry with Carrie Etter
Do you have poems which are ready for publication? In this seminar, you'll analyze the poem packs to identify the characteristics of our own poetry, cover submission procedures and magazine policies, and analyze poetry magazines to improve our understanding of the kinds of work they publish. Everyone leaves with more confidence in their ability to match their poems to particular magazines and hence with more confidence in their chances of getting published, and past student successes following the seminar confirm that that confidence wasn't misplaced. After a successful session in Bath we are running this workshop again in Manchester on Saturday 13 March.
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Out Now: Programme Summer 2010!
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Read Programme Summer 2010
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The new brochure with courses and workshops for the summer term including a summer school in London and for the first time in Manchester, was sent out to everyone on our mailing list on Monday 15 February. If you're not on our mailing list yet, and want to receive a printed programme in the post, please send your address to administration@poetryschool.com and we'll send it to you as soon as possible. BOOKING FOR THE SUMMER TERM OPENS ON MONDAY 22 FEBRUARY, 10AM

Transatlantic Poets: a reading course, Spring Term
Please note that John McAuliffe will now be teaching this course in Autumn 2010 rather than Spring 2010. Further details and dates to follow.


Programme 2009/2010
Programme 2009/2010


This was one of the most exciting, inspiring and useful courses I have ever done & I think moved my poetry ahead technically a great deal and opened up a new world of forms and challenges.

- Student

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