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 Maybe you’re an experienced but unpublished poet who wants to take those next … Continue reading Drafting Table – Featured Poet Session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 … 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
What is it? Write Space is a pop-up space for you to work on your creative writing projects in the company of other local writers. Come and write with us … Continue reading Write Space
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
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 October 17 at 7.30pm in The Community Works for a live poetry event like no other! Poetry Bake Off spreads the plum jam of Poetry into Bake Off’s tiered sponge. Five poets go head to head over three rounds: Signature, Technical & Showstopper. Will their words on the page rise to the … Continue reading Poetry Bake Off
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 … Continue reading The Reading Circle
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- October Session
What is it? Write Space is a pop-up space for you to work on your creative writing projects in the company of other local writers. Come and write with us … Continue reading Write Space
If your poetry was a noise what would it be? On a typical day which noises make themselves known? Are there certain sounds that remind you of home? Join us, makers Raina, Holly and Gael for an afternoon workshop at the Oxford Poetry Library on October 25th at 2pm and explore using voice, body, and … Continue reading What’s that Sound?: An Experimental Workshop on Poetry and Noise
Join us on 25 October at 7pm for an exclusive production of Resusci-Anne, an evening of theatre, poetry, and sea-shanties! This event will be taking place at the brand new … Continue reading Resusci-Anne (and the Personal Displays of Affection)
