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Drafting Table – featured poet session
Welcome to Drafting Table, where we share our emerging poems with each other and provide feedback in a safe and inclusive environment.
Maybe you have been attending the Getting Started sessions and feel ready to edit your work and develop your ideas. Maybe you’re an experienced but unpublished poet who wants to take those next steps in your poetry career. Just bring a willingness to receive and provide feedback with the whole group!
Once a month, we invite a published poet to join us. There will be a short reading of their poems followed by a workshop where attendees can learn more about the creative process, get an insight into what it means to be a poet, and share our work with them.
October’s featured poet is Daniel Sluman. Daniel Sluman is a 39-year-old poet and disability rights activist. He co-edited the first major UK Disability poetry anthology Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back, and he has published four poetry collections with Nine Arches Press. His third collection, single window, was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize, and his most recent collection, Pain Songs was released in May 2026, and was longlisted for the Forward Prize, and shortlisted for the PEN Heaney Award.
Please book your place for the session here: https://shorturl.at/
Tickets cost around as much as a coffee, and concession rates are available. If the concession ticket still feels like too much, please feel free to email us confidentially for a free entry. You are always welcome here!
Please email any queries to opldraftingtable@gmail.com