Events

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 Maybe you’re an experienced but unpublished poet who wants to take those … Continue reading Drafting Table Workshop Session

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

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

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 these sessions will alternate between online and in-person – links to the Zoom sessions will be circulated to those who have registered in advance of these events. This month's session will take place online. Many of us feel intimidated by formal poetry: Some of us consider it too restrictive and governed by rules, … Continue reading The Shape of Poetry

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

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