Events

On Saturday 18 November, as part of the Being Human festival, we will be running a Pop-up Poetry Cafe during our usual library opening hours in The Community Works! Poetry can delight; it can give us ideas; it can help us move on. Come along to the Oxford Poetry Library’s pop-up poetry café at the … Continue reading Being Human: Pop-up Poetry Café

A workshop series on poetry and mindfulness We live in a world full of distractions. In today’s fast-paced digital world, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to be mindful. Writing poetry can be a powerful mindfulness activity because it allows you to explore yourself, your thoughts and feelings and your surroundings. Writing poetry can also help steer … Continue reading Stillness in Words Workshop

Hey! The rumours are true. It’s… The Hip Crowd Open Mic!   Oxford Poetry Library and Makespace Oxford bring you Oxford’s newest 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 … Continue reading The Hip Crowd open mic session

If you’d like to learn how to take poetry and writing off the page and onto the stage with skill and confidence, Page to Stage is the place for you. This mini-series of performance training workshops covers some key skills you’ll need to perform writing for an audience. We’ll be focusing mainly on poetry, but … Continue reading Page to Stage 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 Maybe you’re an experienced but unpublished poet who wants to take those next … Continue reading Drafting Table: performance session

Welcome to this new poetry writing 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 Maybe you’re an experienced but unpublished poet who wants to take … Continue reading Drafting Table: workshop session

Oxford Poetry Library presents its monthly 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 … Continue reading This Is Just To Say: spoken word open mic

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 an invitation to all writers of poetry, whether you're just starting out or have been writing for years, to explore the creative potential of poetic forms. Our … 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 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