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Tutor: Meryl Pugh
Monthly Zoom seminars, with MA Core Tutor Meryl Pugh, for those looking to develop the skills necessary for postgraduate poetic study.
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Tutor: Louisa Adjoa Parker
Explore the joy and resilience of pastoral writing from Global Majority poets.
As part of our Poetry Craft series, Sarah Hesketh discusses how poets navigate plagiarism, consent, and authorship. When using real speech in poetry, how do you maintain authenticity without simply reproducing raw material? I suppose I’d immediately like to take issue with that word ‘authenticity’. Poetry that incorporates text that comes from a speech act…
Sarah Hesketh
As part of our Poetry Craft series, Ruth Beddow discusses class, work and the politics of poetry today. Before we talk about whose poetry gets published, promoted or awarded, we need to ask: who gets to write in the first place? A myth of ‘working-class writing’? In recent years, we’ve seen Joelle Taylor (raised in…
Ruth Beddow
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 Helen Calcutt on how to develop poetic sensitivity to the spaces between. How can poets use the ‘spaces…
Helen Calcutt
Welcome to our Forward Prizes 2025 ’How I Did It’ series. This year we asked poets shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection to write about the inspiration behind one of the poems from their chosen collection. Here’s Michael Mullen on what inspired them to write the poem ‘Beithir’ in Goonie. Any writer of Scots –…
Michael Mullen
Welcome to our Forward Prizes 2025 ’How I Did It’ series. This year we asked poets shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection to write about the inspiration behind one of the poems from their chosen collection. Here’s Sarah Ghazal Ali on what inspired her to write the poem ‘Magdalene Diptych’ in Theophanies. Magdalene at a…
Sarah Ghazal Ali
Tristram Fane Saunders
Desree
Suzannah V. Evans
Isabelle Baafi
Kathryn Simmonds
Catherine-Esther Cowie
Tessa Foley