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 Our Tutor Academy course, a workshop designed for poets to try their hand at teaching with a class of helpful students, finished this term. We saw a very successful run of ten week sessions on letter poems, comic poems and more, all involving an equal amount of student-teacher feedback, so we decided to speak to some of the students to see what they thought about the course. Here, we talk to Rebecca Perry.

 Our Tutor Academy course, a workshop designed for poets to try their hand at teaching with a class of helpful students, finished this term. We saw a very successful run of ten week sessions on letter poems, comic poems and more, all involving an equal amount of student-teacher feedback, so we decided to speak to some of the students to see what they thought about the course. Here, we talk to John Canfield.

Our Tutor Academy course, a workshop designed for poets to try their hand at teaching with a class of helpful students, finished this term. We saw a very successful run of ten week sessions, involving an equal amount of student-teacher feedback, so we decided to speak to some of the students to see what they thought about the course. Here we speak to John Grant.

Hannah Lowe was born in Ilford to an English mother and Jamaican-Chinese father. She has lived in Brighton and Santa Cruz, California. She studied American Literature at the University of Sussex and has a Masters degree in Refugee Studies. Currently she lives in Brixton and teaches literature at a college in Islington. Her first full collection Chick will be published by Bloodaxe in 2013. 'Writing the Family' will be her first experience teaching online for The Poetry School.

Earlier this year, we set a challenge for our online students to write a poem to be illustrated for our Spring programme on the theme of New Worlds. After lots of impressive submissions, we chose a poem by Sharon Black called 'Resuscitation', to be illustrated. Jack Hudson, our illustrator of choice, and Sharon, worked together to create the cover now gracing our new programme.