Top up your poetry joy! This is a monthly shot of inspiration and professional development, reading great poems, new and old for pure poetry joy – an antidote to the news. NAWE Member Discount available.
Each month I'll choose a couple of poems to relish that are exciting, arresting or just simply wonderful. In this small group, we’ll read poems and discuss them together as readers and writers looking at the content, form, poetic techniques, voice, syntax and other stylistic aspects. It's a simple format with two periods of close reading and discussion followed by two opportunities for writing your own responses to the poems.
Facilitator Cath Drake’s poetry collection, The Shaking City (Seren Books, 2020) was longlisted in the international Laurel Prize and highly commended in the UK Forward Prize. It followed Sleeping with Rivers, a Poetry Book Society Choice & winner of the Seren/Mslexia poetry prize. Cath has been published widely in anthologies and literary journals in UK, Ireland, US, Europe and Australia. She’s twice been be awarded second place in the international Ginkgo Ecopoetry Prize and also highly commended in this prize. Cath has run The Verandah, quality online poetry events, since 2020.
Dates: 5 May, 2 June, 7 July 2026, 10am to 11am
Location: Online on Zoom with Cath Drake’s The Verandah
Cost: £35 for three sessions
NAWE Member Discount: 10% off for NAWE members - use the code JOY26.
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