SOLD OUT 5-week Short Course: Further Adventures in Poetry (April 2021)

In this 5-week advanced course we’ll work together to craft, edit and share poems which feel meaningful and true to us, while exploring and experimenting with form, voice and subject.

Playful, challenging and nurturing, this course is suitable for poets who already have some experience of writing.

Biography:

Liz Berry’s first book of poems, Black Country (Chatto 2014), described as a ‘sooty, soaring hymn to her native West Midlands’ (Guardian) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, received a Somerset Maugham Award and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award and Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2014. Her latest pamphlet is The Republic of Motherhood (Chatto, 2018) and the title poem has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Liz has been a judge for many major poetry prizes and works as a mentor and tutor for organisations including the Arvon Foundation, The Poetry School and Writing West Midlands.

Please note: you must sign up for the full course even if you cannot attend all dates. No partial course ticket is available.

Short Courses are for over 18s. If you are a young writer, you can sign up for our Spark Young Writers Programme.

All Writing West Midlands short courses are collaborative, and you will learn as much from your fellow course attendees as from the tutor. You will be expected to play an active role in group tasks, and you will also have time to reflect on your own writing during sessions.

Course handouts are sometimes (but not always) available, and notes may be available in advance upon request. If you have any additional needs, please contact Writing West Midlands in advance of the course starting and we will try to assist you.