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Join us for our Saturday Studio to write poems harnessing the power of not-knowing
PS Workshop Group
This intimate monthly group offers an encouraging space to develop your poetry. Sessions include feedback on your poems-in-progress alongside conversation around contemporary poetry and next steps for you and your work.
Spring/Summer term [Feb-Jun] @ £180 for 5 sessions. Dates: Feb 25, March 25, April 22, May 27, Jun 24
Places are limited @ 4-8 poets to keep the group small.
What might happen if we let chance, spontaneity and playfulness shape our poetry?
In this special free National Poetry Day workshop, we’ll embrace playful experimentation, unleashing our imagination through invented and unconventional poetic forms to write poems that revel in creativity and embrace unpredictability.
Join us to explore the creative possibilities of syllabic forms including the Tanka
PS Workshop Group
This intimate monthly group offers an encouraging space to develop your poetry. Sessions include feedback on your poems-in-progress alongside conversation around contemporary poetry and next steps for you and your work.
Spring/Summer term [Feb-Jun] @ £180 for 5 sessions. Dates: Feb 25, March 25, April 22, May 27, Jun 24
Places are limited @ 4-8 poets to keep the group small.
Join us to read, write and explore the pleasures and possibilities of the dark through poems.
PS Workshop Group
This intimate monthly group offers an encouraging space to develop your poetry. Sessions include feedback on your poems-in-progress alongside conversation around contemporary poetry and next steps for you and your work.
Spring/Summer term [Feb-Jun] @ £180 for 5 sessions. Dates: Feb 25, March 25, April 22, May 27, Jun 24
Places are limited @ 4-8 poets to keep the group small.
PS Workshop Group
This intimate monthly group offers an encouraging space to develop your poetry. Sessions include feedback on your poems-in-progress alongside conversation around contemporary poetry and next steps for you and your work.
Spring/Summer term [Feb-Jun] @ £180 for 5 sessions. Dates: Feb 25, March 25, April 22, May 27, Jun 24
Places are limited @ 4-8 poets to keep the group small.
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Join us as we explore the possibilities of re-imagining myths and fairytales
PS Workshop Group
This intimate monthly group offers an encouraging space to develop your poetry. Sessions include feedback on your poems-in-progress alongside conversation around contemporary poetry and next steps for you and your work.
Spring/Summer term [Feb-Jun] @ £180 for 5 sessions. Dates: Feb 25, March 25, April 22, May 27, Jun 24
Places are limited @ 4-8 poets to keep the group small.
PS Workshop Group
This intimate monthly group offers an encouraging space to develop your poetry. Sessions include feedback on your poems-in-progress alongside conversation around contemporary poetry and next steps for you and your work.
Spring/Summer term [Feb-Jun] @ £180 for 5 sessions. Dates: Feb 25, March 25, April 22, May 27, Jun 24
Places are limited @ 4-8 poets to keep the group small.
Now that he’s dead I’m waiting for Fatherbird to visit me
in a dream.
Months and years have passed.
- from The Afterlife of Fatherbird by Moniza Alvi
In Blackbird, Bye Bye, Moniza Alvi creates the figures of Motherbird and Fatherbird to pay homage to her parents, and find her way through loss. Close or distant, present or absent, there are innumerable ways to approach these most personal and singular relationships.
We will taking inspiration from poets including Patrick McGuiness, Laura Scott, Ghassan Zaqtan, Mimi Khalvati, Raymond Carver, Zbigniew Herbert, Moniza Alvi and more.
