Events

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 Maybe you’re an experienced but unpublished poet who wants to take … Continue reading Drafting Table: workshop session

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

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 … Continue reading The Shape of Poetry workshop

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 … Continue reading Stillness in Words Workshop

Join Will Harris, Jane Draycott and Joseph Minden for a reading exploring Englands; counter-Englands; the long, shadowy lance of memory; knight-strafing; the trembling of leaf-shade; the problems of address; the … Continue reading An evening of poetry with Will Harris, Jane Draycott, Joseph Minden

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 … 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. … 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 … Continue reading Drafting Table: performance session

What are you willing to die for? Join Dave Neita for this interactive writing workshop on 1 November at 6.30pm at The Community Works and explore that very question as … Continue reading Invitation to a Rivonia Declaration: A workshop

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 … Continue reading Drafting Table: workshop session