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
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 … Continue reading Drafting Table Performance Session
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 Maybe you’re an experienced but unpublished poet who wants to take those … Continue reading Drafting Table Workshop Session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 … Continue reading This Is Just To Say: spoken word open mic
Note that until further notice, these sessions will happen online - links to the Zoom session will be circulated to those who have registered in advance of these events. Many … Continue reading The Shape of Poetry workshop
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 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
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 … 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 for a friendly, low-pressure space to hang out and chat with folks who love words as much as you do? Why not join us at … 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 the last frontiers of humanity, can we grow to love the world? Join us on November 23rd at 2pm-3.30pm in The Community Works for this … 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
