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 … Continue reading Getting Started With Poetry
Two days of poetry and spoken word workshops and performances, platforming diverse voices to kick off Transgender Awareness week. Join us for the Oxford Di-Verse Poetry Festival, celebrating the powerful … Continue reading Oxford Di-Verse Poetry Festival
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 … Continue reading The Reading Circle
Two days of poetry and spoken word workshops and performances, platforming diverse voices to kick off Transgender Awareness week. Join us for the Oxford Di-Verse Poetry Festival, celebrating the powerful voices of marginalized, oppressed, and silenced communities. This grassroots, cooperative festival is organized by Oxford Poetry Library, Butcher’s Dog Poetry Magazine, Reconnecting Rainbows Press, St. … Continue reading Oxford Di-Verse Poetry Festival
Got started with poetry but not sure where to go next? Need some support and feedback for a specific piece of writing that is bugging you right now? Just looking … Continue reading LIT Reading Group- November Online
On any given day, we have more cause to feel grief, loss, despair, and rage than love. Such is the state of the world. Yet, if love is one of … Continue reading How to Love the World: 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 Maybe you’re an experienced but unpublished poet who wants to take those next … Continue reading Drafting Table Performance Session
Hey! The rumours are true. It’s… The Hip Crowd Open Mic! Oxford Poetry Library and Makespace Oxford bring you an open mic event especially for folks with babes-in-arms, but also open to all and everyone. If you’re feeling like daytime is the right time for you to entertain or be entertained, join us … Continue reading The Hip Crowd
In your recent holiday abroad, what’s the foreign phrase that you’ve used or pondered about most? And isn’t it beautiful and mysterious that words like ‘light’ harbour so many meanings? Join us on November 30th at 2pm-4pm in The Community Works for this exclusive one-off workshop where we will respond to writing prompts around traveling … Continue reading The Untranslateable in Poetry: a workshop
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
On 5 December at 7.30pm in The Community Works, we welcome 4 excellent local poets to showcase their newest publications! Warm up with an enticing evening of new and recent poetry featuring Oxford book launches and readings from – Real Lear: New and Selected Poems (Shearsman, 2024) by Claire Crowther, Popular Song (Nine Arches Press, … Continue reading An Evening of Poetry with Carrie Etter, Harry Man, Claire Crowther and Jenny Lewis
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
