Groups

Create poems inspired by the most exciting art of the past century

Confront forbidden topics through a literary lens

Opening up the under-recognised poetries of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia

How can poetry speak to us if it does not take risks, say something bold and new, make adventurous leaps with language and form?

A lyrical look at feeling, forgetting, intuition, image, and seeing the world in a totally new way

Archive, document and catalogue carefully selected moments of your life past, present and future

Avoid plagiarism, but explore the creative activity of appropriation and “stealing”

Use philosophical concepts to sharpen your poetry, and poetry to bring those concepts to life

If translation is a movement, who is permitted to cross?

Play congenial hosts to your psychoanalytical ‘opposites’

A moving body, the veins of nature, the flow of life

For beginner writers who want to explore some definitions of poetry; and to start some structured learning about rhyme, metre, verse forms, lineation and stanzas.

The radical art of writing defiantly happy poems

Formulate a new poetic language that transcends the merely human

Writing after and against the new dystopian

A private group for poets selected for the New North Poets scheme with The Poetry School and New Writing North. This group is for discussion between participants, Poetry School staff and your tutor, Clare Pollard. Live chats will also take place in this group.

Poetry is a platform, not an altar

The ghazal makes unique rhetorical demands on the Western writer. In our latest Open Workshop, Jason Schneiderman will be getting you to think through your ghazals and to explore the multiple ways to revise these modular poems. Do you enjoy finding a hand-crafted wooden puzzle in your Christmas stocking more than a satsuma? Prefer origami to sports? Then this may be the poetic challenge for you. Prepare to get crafty with your verse with this most elegant and versatile of forms.

What small objects keep you awake at night, and which ones do you often lose, or have intimate relationships with? What was the last genuinely challenging idea you heard or read about? In this new Open Workshop, poet Simon Pomery will encourage you to take objects, preferably small ones with little or no poetical history, and try to link them to ideas outside of poetry. You will learn ways of breaking your syntax and experimenting with thought patterns, and read poems that will hopefully inspire you into establishing contact between things and ideas.

For more info: http://campus.poetryschool.com/open-workshop-invisible-dark-matter/

Editing Lab: Consider the challenges, practical ‘nuts and bolts’ and decision-making processes in putting together your own pamphlet publication.