On 25 July at 7.30pm in The Community Works, we’ll celebrate the publication of Still, the second full poetry collection by Alan Buckley. Still has its origins in the third lockdown of January 2021, when Alan began writing short, tightly structured poems during – and prompted by – his daily walk from East Oxford’s Marsh Park to the Lye Valley nature … Continue reading Alan Buckley book launch: “Still”
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 Maybe you’re an experienced but unpublished poet who wants to take those next … Continue reading Drafting Table – Featured Poet Session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 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 Maybe you’re an experienced but unpublished poet who wants to take those … Continue reading Drafting Table – Workshop Session
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
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
Got started with poetry but not sure where to go next? Need some support and feedback for a specific piece of writing that is bugging you right now? Just looking for a friendly, low-pressure space to hang out and chat with folks who love words as much as you do? Why not join us at … Continue reading LIT Reading Group- August Session
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 – Featured Poet 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 … Continue reading This Is Just To Say: spoken word open mic
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 … Continue reading Getting Started with Poetry
Join us on 12 September at 7.30pm at The Community Works for a screening of Topos, a film screening and poetry reading presented by Oxford Poetry Library and Issabella Orlando. A meditation on place, ancestry, memory, and landscape, this special evening features a screening of Topos, an award-winning poetic documentary by filmmaker and poet Issabella … Continue reading Topos: A film screening and poetry reading
Note that these sessions will take place online – links to the Zoom sessions 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 workshop is … Continue reading The Shape of Poetry
