This is a course suitable for intermediate writers who want to improve their skills and pen new poetry that builds on previous work, as well as explore new forms, themes, and language.

Each week, we will focus mainly on workshopping your own writing; we will read and discuss your poems-in-progress, developing familiarity with each other’s work and offering detailed feedback with the aim of moving your writing forward, all the while establishing a community of poets, we hope you can count on for years to come.

There will also be opportunities to discuss the work of published poets and issues in contemporary poetry with the aim of inspiring you to emulate them and then ‘make it new’ in your own writing. 

Natasha Hakimi Zapata is a poet, journalist, university lecturer, and literary translator whose first non-fiction book, Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America From Around the Globe, is forthcoming in 2025 from The New Press.

Dates: Fridays, 2–4pm (GMT), 18 October - 20 December 2024
Location: Online via Zoom
Cost: £220

Book your place here.