Events

Welcome to our poetry drafting group, 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 Maybe you’re an experienced but unpublished poet who wants to take those … Continue reading Drafting Table – workshop session

Oxford Poetry Library presents a spoken word open mic night! Join us in the library on the first Tuesday of every month to enjoy all manner of word-weaving, story-sharing, and spell-casting. We welcome poets, storytellers, and writers of all kinds to share their work (or the work of others) in a safe, supportive, and inclusive … Continue reading This is Just To Say: spoken word open mic

Note that these sessions will take place online – links to the Zoom sessions will be circulated to those who have registered in advance of these events.  Many of us feel intimidated by formal poetry: Some of us consider it too restrictive and governed by rules, while others write exclusively in form. This workshop is … Continue reading The Shape of Poetry

Whether you’ve never written a poem before, have just started to write, or aren’t sure if what you’re writing is poetry, this monthly workshop is a chance to carve out some time for writing. In each workshop, we’ll read a poem together, and use it as our starting point. We’ll suggest some prompts you could … Continue reading Getting Started with Poetry

Join us on 16 October for second helpings of our Poetry Bakeoff! For one night only we beat Poetry into the batter of Bake Off - in a live poetry competition like no other. Five poets perform head to head in three rounds in the classic Bake Off format: Signature, Technical & Showstopper. Will their … Continue reading Poetry Bakeoff

People who never read poetry don’t write poems that are worth reading – Wendy Cope   If you’re keen to find a way in to reading and appreciating poetry, discover new writing, and open your mind to the world of poetry, welcome to The Reading Circle. Come to OPL’s poetry reading group where we’ll share and … Continue reading The Reading Circle

As part of the After Love exhibition and event series at Ovada - a project on romantic heartbreak by Dr Sally Holloway Join Maya and Phoebe from the Oxford Poetry Library for a relaxed, explorative afternoon of poetry. Looking at two poems that span the tenth century to present day, we'll consider how experiences of … Continue reading “It Is Otherwise For Us” Writing into Heartbreak: a workshop

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 … Continue reading Drafting Table – featured poet session

Oxford Poetry Library presents a spoken word open mic night! Join us in the library on the first Tuesday of every month to enjoy all manner of word-weaving, story-sharing, and … Continue reading This is Just to Say: spoken word open mic

Welcome to our poetry drafting group, 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 … Continue reading Drafting Table – workshop session