Thursday 3 September 2026,? 6.30pm – 9pm
A Cloud in Trousers: Emotional Intensification Through Distance
This workshop will look at poems in which distance does not diminish feeling but intensifies it, redistributing the labour of emotion so that the reader becomes its co-producer rather than its recipient. Tutor: Iulia David

Saturday 5 September 2026, 10.30am – 1pm
A Magnificent Error: Poetry after Magritte
Take part in writing exercises inspired by René Magritte’s fascination with object relationships, disrupting ‘normal’ spatial and temporal contiguity to create poems driven by a destabilising associative logic. Tutor: Rachael Brown

Sunday 6 September 2026, 10.30am – 1pm
Carmen et Error
Ovid’s cited reason for exile will be taken as a motif for exploring poetics of the erotic and in terms of the energy and role of accidents and mistakes in poetry. Tutor: Rushika Wick

Monday 7 September 2026, 6.30pm – 9pm
Disrupting the Lyric: Complication, Collapse & Reimagining the Voice
This workshop explores poems in which the lyric voice is placed under pressure: interrupted by competing narratives, temporal shifts, or destabilising turns in thought. 
Tutor: Ophira Adar

Tuesday 8 September 2026, 6.30pm – 9pm
Hope is the Only Option: Four Ways into Nature Poetry
Explore four different routes through nature poetry – documentation, resistance, nature as solace, and imagined alternative futures – as exemplified by poems by Mary Oliver, Gary Snyder, Seamus Heaney, and Wendell Berry. Tutor: Ben Verinder

Thursday 10 September 2026, 6.30pm – 9pm
Sacred Female Rage
Join poet and psychotherapist Catherine Balaq in this poetry workshop exploring sacred female rage where you will look to stories about women from Greek mythology and the bible to give voice to the unspoken.Tutor: Catherine Balaq

Saturday 12 September 2026, 10.30am – 1pm
New York Poets for a New Century: When Nothing is Too Much Detail
Looking at key New York poets Frank O’Hara and James Schuyler, alongside their peers and the poets they inspired, you will explore chatty tone, breaking rules, and play with putting disparate elements from our daily lives into poems. 
Tutor: Steph Morris

Sunday 13 September 2026, 10.30am – 1pm
Microchimerism, Loss, & Connection: Writing Absence & Attachment in Parenthood
Explore how poetry can convey lasting attachments to children or parents following their absence, whether by death or a transition such as leaving home. Tutor: Sam Szanto

Monday 14 September 2026, 6.30pm – 9pm
Game Theory
This workshop looks to use those games from childhood or elsewhere to guide the generation of new work and, more specifically, to play with ideas of what is possible in the rendering of new poetry in terms of form and structure. Tutor: Elontra Hall

Tuesday 15 September 2026, 6.30pm – 9pm
How to Prepare & Publish your First Pamphlet
Thinking about your first pamphlet? This workshop will cover the 3 key stages of getting your first pamphlet out into the world; 1) sequencing 2) editing and 3) publishing. Tutor: Kat Dixon

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