Are you a practising poet who wants to take their work to the next level?

Maybe you’re having trouble telling your syllabics and sestinas apart, or can’t quite crack the rhyme scheme in Shakespearean sonnet? Perhaps, you’re curious about how to best edit and present your writing on the road to publication.

Join the modestly titled ‘Master of Poetry’ Tom, from Shout or Whisper. He’ll take you on a 6-week journey, guiding you through different types of rhyme, explaining the mechanics of poetic forms like villanelles and sonnets, and helping you explore styles like confessionalism, objectivism and ekphrasis.

There’ll be plenty of examples provided, lots of writing exercises to cut your teeth on, and ample opportunities to share your work in a safe space with a group of supportive, like-minded creatives.

• Sessions run every Thursday from 23 January- 27 February, 7.30-9pm

Session Schedule:

Week 1: Defining Poetry (Marianne Moore, Emily Dickinson, Steve Martin)

Week 2: The Object Poem (William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, H.D.)

Week 3: Forms of Modern Poetry (William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Bishop, Raych Jackson)

Week 4: Confessional Poetry and the Persona (Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, W.D. Snodgrass)

Week 5: Developing Rhyme and Reason (Claude McKay, Shel Silverstein, MF Doom)

Week 6: Ekphrastic Poetry and Mixing Mediums (W.H. Auden, Anne Sexton, John Keats)

£15 per person (per session), to book for every session click the 'whole course ticket' option at checkout.

Writing materials needed, refreshments will be provided.

About the Tutor: Tom holds a BA in English & American Literature, an MA in Creative Writing (Poetry), over 5 years experience working in the publishing industry at the British Library, and his poems have been regularly featured in Ink, Sweat & Tears, Black Sunflowers and The Best New British and Irish Poets 2019-2021.