Face to face

Poetry School staff are battling over the office copy of Adventures in Form. Newly released by indie publisher Penned in the Margin, this anthology is 'a compendium of poetic forms, rules and constraints' - but you won't find a villanelle, Shakespearean sonnet or sestina between its pages. This is a book of tweet poems, sudos and sevenlings - dozens of new forms invented by poets swinging from the highest monkey bars in poetry's adventure playground. Want to express your ideas in an Oulipo poem, a mixtape poem or a breakbeat sonnet? We've put together a new course, based on the anthology, to let these and other new forms out into the wild.

We've selected 10 poets from the book, including Tamar Yoseloff, Tim Turnbull and Chrissy Williams. Week by week, they will each post their poems in the Poetry School's online classroom, together with an explanation of the new form's rules, and some related writing challenges. Students will post their poetic responses in the forum, and discuss their work in progress with fellow students, talking about their poetic joys, concerns and successes.

Note - there is no tutor feedback within this class.