Search results

Mimi Khalvati’s Advanced Poetry Workshop is running a short summer term, Pascale’s course is an extension of it. Plenty of room for Mimi’s students and newcomers writing at an advanced level for an in-depth workshop of poems in progress, each session kicked off with reading published poetry to spark off new ideas, and keep their poetic discipline focussed over the summer months.

Mimi Khalvati’s Advanced Poetry Workshop is running a short summer term, Pascale’s course is an extension of it. Plenty of room for Mimi’s students and newcomers writing at an advanced level for an in-depth workshop of poems in progress, each session kicked off with reading published poetry to spark off new ideas, and keep their poetic discipline focussed over the summer months.

In-depth focus on your poems in progress and the overall direction and development of your work. There won’t be writing exercises, but the sessions will be enlivened by reading published poetry as a stimulus for your writing and discussion. To apply, please send four poems to Mimi at 130c Evering Road, London N16 7BD by 17 August 2012 (and specify if you would prefer the afternoon or evening session). The course takes place over three terms.

In-depth focus on your poems in progress and the overall direction and development of your work. There won’t be writing exercises, but the sessions will be enlivened by reading published poetry as a stimulus for your writing and discussion. To apply, please send four poems to Mimi at 130c Evering Road, London N16 7BD by 17 August 2012 (and specify if you would prefer the afternoon or evening session). The course takes place over three terms.

This is a short download, containing a brief burst of advice about a specific area of craft or inspiration - perfect for breaking open new ideas.

'Who are you, yourself, alone and nameless?' J.R.R.Tolkien Toby guides us through the minefield of form.

To be a contemporary poet, you should read contemporary poetry, but it’s easy to fall behind when so much is happening and so many new poets are publishing. This course is aimed at well-read advanced students who want to discuss and learn about recent developments in UK and US poetry. The first term will introduce you to a range of UK poets who have emerged in the past decade or so; second term will do the same with US poets; third term will look at a new generation of younger UK/US poets who are revitalising poetry. Class members will be encouraged to write and show
poetry which responds creatively to the poems discussed.

To apply for this course email six poems to programme@poetryschool.com by 24 August 2012

Further details: this is a course for well read, confident students who want to engage with the current poetic climate. Students can apply to join in any term of this three term course.

A group which focuses on detailed feedback and discussion of your poems in each session, also key topics. This year topics will include origins of poems, the surreal, and some major contemporary poets. To apply, email six poems as a word attachment to Myra myrarschneider@gmail.com or post with email address / SAE to the address above by 25 September 2012.

This is a short download, containing a brief burst of advice about a specific area of craft or inspiration - perfect for breaking open new ideas.

Advice about shaping and arranging the argument of your poem through the phases of a lyric poem.

This fascinating, hands-on trawl of all the major pathways into new poems is as comprehensive as it is unique. Includes observation, the senses, personal memory, reflection, imagination, other people’s work – indeed, everything from the 'found poem' to Larkin's pickles. Mario’s immense experience in the field fuels a groundbreaking masterclass on compositional process, generating a workshop experience of immense variety and enduring value.

Travelling Workshops are package deals for your pre-existing groups of writers and readers. The Poetry School charges a set fee, how much you charge individual participants is up to you. Download our factsheet for more details.

This workshop addresses a writer’s need for adventure. Poets will be encouraged to consider their writing ‘beyond the poem’ in order to identify habits and possible new approaches. Through writing exercises and looking at the work of a range of contemporary poems we will explore sequence poems, life-drawing through language and challenging self-censorship. Part of the workshop will focus on clarifying your expectations/aspirations (ie publication/collections/residencies). Workshop content is flexible and can respond to the group’s interests and questions.

Travelling Workshops are package deals for your pre-existing groups of writers and readers. The Poetry School charges a set fee, how much you charge individual participants is up to you. Download our factsheet for more details.

In this workshop on the contemporary in poetry, you'll look at developments in UK and US poetry in the last decade or so, focusing on the writers who have brought new vigour and intriguing ideas and styles to the world of poetry. By leading a discussion of the work of UK poets such as Jen Hadfield and Nick Laird and US poets including D A Powell and Chelsey Minnis, editor and anthologist Roddy Lumsden will open up new possibilities in your own writing, and expand your poetic horizons.

Travelling Workshops are package deals for your pre-existing groups of writers and readers. The Poetry School charges a set fee, how much you charge individual participants is up to you. Download our factsheet for more details.

We’ll experience the creative stimulus of making decisions on key translation issues: e.g. balancing literal and idiomatic English, or whether to save or ditch the original’s rhyme or metaphor. No preparation required. You’ll come fresh to each poem and have time to work in class on your translations from French, Italian and Norwegian. No previous language knowledge needed - vocabulary support will be provided. Published translations will also be compared.

Your poetry and its audience - exploring arguments about entertainment and intelligibility, whilst also thinking about practical ways to engage your reader: titles, first lines, direct address, setting up questions, narrative etc
(Clare could also offer advanced sessions on Assembling a Manuscript, or Translations and Versions)

Travelling Workshops are package deals for your pre-existing groups of writers and readers. The Poetry School charges a set fee, how much you charge individual participants is up to you. Download our factsheet for more details.

‘I do not want to see what is shown. I want to see what is secret. What is hidden amongst the visible. I want to see the skin of the light.’ (Hélène Cixous, Writing Blind: Conversation with the Donkey). Some of the best poems are written blind. We don’t know where we’ll end up when we start writing them and so they take us, as well as the reader, by surprise. During this course we’ll explore poems that surprise us, reading and discussing work by a range of contemporary North American poets including
Louise Glück, Li-Young Lee and Gary Young. We’ll think about ‘what is hidden amongst the visible’ in our own poetry, and undertake a series of exercises designed to help us write blind, without deciding our destination in advance, without always knowing where we are going.

This is a short download, containing a brief burst of advice about a specific area of craft or inspiration - perfect for breaking open new ideas.

Chris sets an exercise which sees you walking round a city (or town or village - wherever you are with other people about), recording your impressions and combining them in unusual ways to generate new poems.