A tidy workspace with a white desk, open notebook, books, and papers, a yellow mug, a potted plant, a black desk lamp, and framed artwork on the wall.
Book cover for 'Poetry Studio' with Shazeqa Quraishi, featuring a colorful geometric design with blocks of green, blue, light blue, and yellow.

Poetry Studio

at home in the world

Poetry Studio
Mondays 6-9pm BST (monthly)

Online

The Poetry Studio is a hospitable online space for new and experienced poets to come together to read poems in English and in translation, to inspire writing in session. 

Informal discussion on a theme provides an opportunity to reflect on individual poetics, and structured writing exercises are designed to seed new poems.

Focussing on the experience in the moment — creative process rather than product — there is no element of critique. Sessions take place on Zoom and last three hours with short breaks. Places are limited, to keep the group small.

You will come away having experienced poems by poets familiar and new from around the world, as well as:

— the beginnings of 2-3 new poems
— takeaways for further reading and writing
— strategies to develop your work further

Booking & more information

Writing awake to times of crisis
Sundays 2-4:30pm GMT (monthly)

In-person @ Yogapoint, Brixton

Join us as we take action by paying attention — reading and writing in response to what is going on around us, close by and far away.

We will take inspiration from poets from around the world, to write our own poems that look closely, as only we can, at the world now. 

This workshop is open to new and experienced writers of poetry, and anyone who is curious about writing as expression and discovery.  You will leave having read and discussed contemporary poems, and begun your own poems of witness, in a supportive and nourishing group.

Booking & more information

Studio Workshop Group
Tuesdays 6:30-9pm GMT (monthly)

Online or In Person*

This intimate monthly group offers an encouraging space to develop your poetry.

Sessions include feedback on your poems-in-progress alongside conversation around craft, contemporary poetry and next steps for you and your work. 

Places are limited to keep the group small @ 4-8 poets*In-person sessions take place at my home in South London, a short walk from Brixton & Herne Hill stations

For booking contact Shazea

Term I 2026: January-June @ £180/term
January 27th, February 24th, March 24th, April 28th, May 26th, June 23rd

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Poetry Studio Archive

For information contact Shazea

Join us to read and write poems about non-sentient things: "they too deserve kindness / They huddle in front of the fireplace, crowing." Still some places left, book via link in bio! #poetrywriting #poetry #poetrystudios
There are still places left for my Poetry School course, and this term has a focus on First Nations poets! Join us to explore writing poetry in these times of ecological emergency, perpetual war and crises. See link in bio for booking and more info ?
one possible translation of one possible poem from the Lascaux cave drawings... we will be Connecting With Translation in our upcoming Poetry Studio on Monday February 10th. see link in bio to book💫 #poetryworkshop #translation #creative #poetry #po
New year, new ways into writing! Join us for our February Studio, to experiment with the possibilities of meaning, depicted on a cave wall 17,000 years ago. What might the Lascaux cave drawings say to us, and how can we take inspiration to enrich our
It's a full moon tonight! Thinking of last week's studio on the Moon with a wonderful group of poets, and the lunar poems we wrote and the ones we read - including this one. Don't eat oranges tonight - only green and icy fruit! #fullmoon #poetrycommu
In our September Studio, we will read poems inspired by the moon and write our own unique lunar poems. Join us! Booking closes soon... 💫 #poetrywriting #poetryworkshop