Poetry

Poetry Courses
Study online or in London

From introductory courses to the more in-depth longer courses, revisit classic works or enjoy discovering new poets, sharing your views in lively class discussions.

Courses available both in-person and online

We offer a range of long and short courses allowing you to choose between in-person and online learning.

Learn in the centre of London with our in-person courses. Our purpose-built facilities in Covent Garden mean we are ideally located and easy to get to. 

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All our courses are live, interactive, and taught by expert tutors. No matter how you prefer to learn, we've got the class for you.

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  1. First Poets of the Modern City: Baudelaire, Whitman, Laforgue, Eliot
    Course start date:  Tue 28 Jan 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Laurie Smith
    We explore how Baudelaire, Whitman, Laforgue and Eliot were the first poets to express in detail both the exciting



    opportunities and the emotional and spiritual damage of life in the modern city. We will look in particular how Baudelaire’s poems and Laforgue’s translations of Whitman into French influenced Eliot’s early poetry, culminating in The Waste Land (1922).
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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  2. Bowers of Bliss? Gardens in Poetry
    Course start date:  Thu 20 Feb 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sophie Oxenham
    This poetry course considers some of the many ways in which poets have written about gardens to explore a range of concerns, including sexuality and desire; corruption, decay, and mortality; retreat and consolation; growth and renewal; cultivation and wildness; and changing perspectives on the relationship between humans and nature.
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00
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  3. Leonard Cohen: song, poetry, prose and persona
    Course start date:  Thu 15 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Richard Niland
    This class explores the work of Leonard Cohen, examining his poetry, song, prose and persona in the context of the literary and musical traditions that shaped his art. We delve into Cohen’s meditations on life and the modern world through his absorption and reworking of a rich range of cultural influences.
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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