• Drafting Table: performance session

    The Community Works 21 Park End Street, Oxford, United Kingdom

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 Maybe you’re an experienced but unpublished poet who wants to take those next … Continue reading Drafting Table: performance session

  • TASTE: A poetry workshop

    The Community Works 21 Park End Street, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Oxford Poetry Library is collaborating with The Oxford Hub to launch our VERY FIRST poetry competition on the theme of taste.   This OPL poetry competition in association with the … Continue reading TASTE: A poetry workshop

    Free
  • LIT Reading Group- February in person

    The Community Works 21 Park End Street, Oxford, United Kingdom

    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- February in person

  • Getting Started With Poetry

    The Community Works 21 Park End Street, Oxford, United Kingdom

    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

    Free
  • The Reading Circle

    The Community Works 21 Park End Street, Oxford, United Kingdom

    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

    Free – £10
  • The Hip Crowd open mic

    The Community Works 21 Park End Street, Oxford, United Kingdom

    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 open mic

    £5
  • Seed Guardians workshop with Mandala Theatre Company

    The Community Works 21 Park End Street, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Oxford Poetry Library invites you to a free creative workshop with Mandala Theatre Company, on Saturday 24th February, 1-3pm at The Community Works, 21 Park End St, Oxford OX1 1HH. Mandala Theatre Company's new project for 2023/24 is focused on the connection of the rights of the Earth, with the rights of the child and future generations. … Continue reading Seed Guardians workshop with Mandala Theatre Company

    Free