Events

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

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 Maybe you’re an experienced but unpublished poet who wants to take those next … Continue reading Drafting Table Performance Session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 … 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 … Continue reading Drafting Table Workshop Session

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

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