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August 2023

Small group intensive poetry feedback workshops

Monthly online poetry feedback session to polish your poems. How do you make a good poems really good?  Join a high quality online poetry feedback group to focus on honing your poetry. Receive encouragement, inspiration and constructive feedback, and get your poems ready for submission. ...
01 Aug - 05 Jan
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October 2023

The Telling Detail: Metonymy and the Half-said Thing, Poetry Masterclass, Don Paterson, 4/10/23 Sold Out

In this workshop Don Paterson will discuss how we can use metonymy and detail to make our poems shorter and punchier, while leaving far more space for the reader to enter into the creation of the poem’s meaning. Using examples drawn from the work of Frost, Plath, Bishop and Heaney, Don will propose some practical strategies that will help us find ‘the telling detail’, and show us how we might use it to concentrate our theme, turn image into argument - and make our poems far more powerful, surprising and memorable. ...
04 Oct
9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Online (Zoom)
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The Climate of Change Poetry Workshops, 2023 – UK morning – one space left!

We'll be reading, discussing, writing poetry and inspiring each other as we focus on the change and adaptation we need in the face of climate changes. It means looking at the world afresh, more deeply and questioning structures, lifestyles and cultural assumptions – everything! Join an ongoing group to grow knowledge, understanding and support each others' writing. ...
12 Oct - 09 Nov
9:00 am - 11:30 am
Online (Zoom)
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The Climate of Change Poetry Workshops, 2023 – UK evening

We'll be reading, discussing, writing poetry and inspiring each other as we focus on the change and adaptation we need in the face of climate changes. It means looking at the world afresh, more deeply and questioning structures, lifestyles and cultural assumptions – everything! Join an ongoing group to grow knowledge, understanding and support each others' writing. ...
12 Oct - 09 Nov
Online (Zoom)
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One-to-one Poetry Editing / Mentoring

Get invaluable one-to-one feedback on 3-4 poems, encouragement and advice on achieving your poetry goals. This can help you hone your poetry craft more than anything else. Become more aware of your strengths and what aspects you need to work on. ...
23 Oct - 08 May
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Online (Zoom)
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The Art of the Line with Hannah Lowe, Poetry Masterclass, 30/10/23 Sold Out

In this 2 hour workshop, Hannah Lowe, overall winner of the 2021 prestigious Costa prize, will focus on the art of the line, considering how line endings and line breakings work in tandem with other key elements of poetry. We will look at examples by poets such as Philip Levine, Mark Doty and Marie Howe, considering how techniques such as enjambment and caesura can augment poems and create new meanings and music. ...
30 Oct
9:00 am - 11:00 pm
Online (Zoom)
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November 2023

Poetry & Mindfulness Uplift – 4 sessions, November 2023

Take time out to recharge your energy and creativity. Mindfulness has been shown to reduce stress and improve well-being, clarity, focus and creativity. I’ve thrown in a sprinkling of poetry and a session of writing together for a weekly uplift! Each session focuses on a theme to spur positive wellbeing, with a prompt for writing. Writing with mindfulness will give your writing a refreshing edge. ...
07 - 28 Nov
Online (Zoom)
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Editing Poems with Pascale Petit, Masterclass 13/11/23 Sold Out

Multi-award winning poet Pascale Petit will discuss how to edit our poems, focusing on free verse and that all important line-break. She will look at how to edit a poem so it’s precise and each line has integral power. She'll compare earlier drafts of published poets’ poems as they appeared in magazines, with the final versions collected in their books. Pascale will also share some of her own early drafts and talk about her techniques. ...
13 Nov
9:00 am - 11:30 pm
Online (Zoom)
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The Dramatic Monologue, Poetry Masterclass with Judith Beveridge, postponed to 30/11/23 – tickets released Sept

The Dramatic Monologue has been around for centuries; it is the second oldest form of poetry after the epic. The dramatic monologue challenges the poet to be imaginative, empathetic, and inventive because it requires adopting a persona or mask to explore and expose feelings which the poet may feel uncomfortable exploring when using their own voice. Characters can be taken from history or can be entirely made up. This workshop will look at poems which use this technique in interesting and diverse ways. We will also do a writing exercise around creating character. ...
30 Nov
9:00 am - 11:00 pm
Online (Zoom)
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