Events

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 … 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 … 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 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 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 … 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

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 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 … 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

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