with Sue Rickards and Rachel Smith

In the same way that learning to make an omelette doesn't make us a chef, or making a clay pot doesn't make us a ceramicist, writing a poem doesn't make us a poet.

However, we might turn out to love making omelettes or pots or writing a poem or two. If you would like the latter to be true, whatever your experience or absence thereof, this might be for you. Over these 5 weeks we'll come together to work and play with letting poems appear. We'll read and write poems, whether we think we can or not, we'll move to some fab music and see what happens. Together we'll hear and write the unexpected.

Rachel is a poet and always will be, she loves poetry and wants to work with it.

Sue is not a poet, and doesn’t want to be, yet she loves poetry and wants to play with it.

Wednesdays

29th October, 5th November, 12th November, 19th November, 26th November

6 - 8.30pm UK time

Cost

Early Bird £180 before 31st August

Regular £220 (the true cost of the course)

Generous £250 (to help Sue and Rachel to offer the supported rate)

Reduced £200 (for those who really need it)

There are 2 supported places @£40 if the cost would be prohibitive

Read more from Rachel on Substack 

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.” Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook