TUTOR: Charly is a poet from South Wales. She spends her time travelling around the world finding people and places that inspire her to write. She published her first collection of poems ‘A Collection of Wildflowers’ in March 2024 and is currently working on her second book. Her work is published in the anthology ‘Mental Health’ by Robin Barrett, Coffee People Zine and Poemstellium. Her writing is largely influenced by nature, mindfulness and wellbeing. She sees writing as a way to connect with the world and is very excited to accompany you on your own writing journey!
Start Date: 5th February, 2025
Duration: 6 Weeks
Fee: £160
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Elevate Your Poetry: Join Our 6-Week Online Course
Discover the world of poetry with our exclusive 6-week Online Poetry Writing Course, a creative journey of profound exploration through the art of poetry! With the expert guidance and support of published poets with a wealth of experience and knowledge, you’ll unlock your inner poet and explore the depth and beauty of this timeless art form. Our course is expertly crafted to help you sharpen your poetic skills and nurture your unique writing style.
Course Structure and Flexibility:
Every week, you’ll receive a new module containing text lessons, which you can engage with at your own pace, providing maximum flexibility tailored to your lifestyle. We recommend dedicating 2-3 hours per week to this course. The absence of set class hours means you can learn on your own terms.
Registration and Course Availability:
Our courses are in high demand, so we advise early registration to secure your spot. Our classes are open to students from all over the world.
Course Access and Materials:
Even after the course concludes, you’ll maintain lifetime access to the course materials, allowing you to revisit the content whenever you need a refresher.
Starting Your Course:
Your tutor will email you the first module on the course start date. Be sure to check your Spam/Junk folder to avoid missing this essential information. Each week, you’ll receive a written task to enhance your learning and skill development. Upon completion, you’ll submit these assignments for personalised feedback from your dedicated online tutor, who will guide and support you every step of the way, pushing you to refine your craft and elevate your poetry to new heights! Our weekly modules explore the following topics:
Week One – Writing Poems That Matter
We start with setting intentions: for our poems, practice, process. We will examine the ‘why’ that carries us to the page – what dreams and desires do we have for the poems we write? What do we want them, if anything, to ‘do’? What makes them matter, if only to ourselves? How can we embed a sense of creative urgency to write braver and bolder work, over the next six weeks?
Week Two – The ‘Long-Armed’ Poem: Letting Anything Belong
This week we will explore examples of poems that roam, wander freely, welcoming various thoughts, feelings, and observations inside their doors, rather than shutting them out. We will reflect on the potential limitations we set ourselves by what we feel should ‘belong’ in a poem, and work to allow chaos to enter our first drafts, before deciding what we let stay, what we choose to cast off.
Week Three – Poems That (Like Us) Contain Multitudes
This week we will challenge the idea that a poem must sing in one note, and instead turn to Donald Hall’s belief that when it comes to poetry: ‘no conflict, no energy’. We will explore the importance of empathy and nuance when writing our own personal experience / the experiences of others, and examine the impact of poems that hold vast emotional landscapes.
Week Four – Poems That Reimagine, Retell, Make Possible
This week we look to the poets who use poetry to imagine a world different than this one. Who turn to the page to rewrite their own stories, reclaim a history. We will investigate the power of erasure and blackout poetry: forms that enable you to take an experience, feeling, or entire text, and transform it into something fresh, new, yours.
Week Five – On Finding The Form
This week we take a deep-dive into the many ways poetic form can both restrict and set free. Make a poem sing or stifle it. We will explore how learning the rules, only to break them, can create delightful surprises for both writer and reader. You will also have the opportunity to devise your own, personalised form of poetry, based on elements that both excite and challenge you.
Week Six – What We Did, What Will Do Next
In this session, we will look back on what we have achieved, however small or large. You will have the chance to ‘showcase’ a poem that you are proud of, and we will set out clear goals and ideas that will support you to keep going, and growing, as a poet.
Join Us Today:
Don’t miss this chance to immerse yourself in a world of creativity and self-expression as you learn from experienced poets and connect with a community of like-minded individuals. Join us, and let us help you bring your poetic vision to life!
