342 Educators providing Poetry courses

poetry in wood

bella's body poetry

In my treatments you can expect to be offered a variety of manual "hands on" approaches, ranging from mobilisation and manipulation techniques to more intuitive gentle touch depending on your needs. Additionally, I will be able to offer a tailored exercise/movement prescription and advice on lifestyle, health and management of your presenting complaints. My aim is to meet you where you are and find out together what approach would suit you best.

writing room org uk

We specialise in supportive creative writing courses, live and interactive on Zoom in small, friendly groups. We've been working with writers since 2013 and know we're delivering what writers need. We’re really pleased you’re taking a look at what we have to offer, whether you’re just beginning your writing journey or are looking for support, expertise and camaraderie en route. We’re all about giving you writing room in the way that works best for you.

slamfresh

At SlamFresh, we believe poetry can make a big difference to young people’s lives. But the need to create a nurturing and supportive environment in which to write has never been greater. Although the popularity of the art form, particularly spoken word, continues to grow on an unprecedented scale, last year, for the first time in our country’s history, poetry was nearly made an optional GCSE subject. As well as this, the recent closure of schools has meant that young people from lower economic backgrounds have been put at an even greater disadvantage than they already were. Cut off from schools, many of these young people simply have not had the space or resources to access creative opportunities, at a time when they need them more than ever. SlamFresh is a CIC based in the Newcastle upon Tyne which aims to address these problems. We run workshops that focus on the contemporary styles of spoken word and slam poetry, styles of writing which we have found can engage some of the most reluctant students. SlamFresh work in partnership with schools and community centres to mentor young people in writing, editing and performance. We have 3 company directors, Rowan McCabe, Michael MacDonald and Jeff Price. Rowan McCabe and Michael MacDonald (stage name Donald Jenkins) also serve as the two primary facilitators for the workshops, although guests may be brought in on a freelance basis where required. The directors met through their work as professional poets. Collectively, they have spent over 40 years working with children and young people.

charlotte lunn

Published PoetIn 2021, I became a guest poetry facilitator with Derbyshire Writing School and I’m over the moon to be running such exciting workshops and courses with this wonderful family run creative business. I was invited on Episode 13 of their podcast to discuss how to begin with poetry. You can listen back here: PODCAST I have been commissioned by Shottle Hall to write a love poem for their wedding magazine and by Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site to highlight overlooked women’s stories in Derby history. You can watch the video for Tales of Derby Women Past below. I’m currently working on my second poetry collection which explores my journey with chronic illness. When I’m not writing, you can find me drinking tea and dabbling in a few different books with a bag of snacks in hand. If you would like to book me for a performance, as a facilitator or commission me to write a poem, please get in touch.

renaissance one - literature curators & producers

As a team of producers, curators, and writers based in regions around England, we reflect the contemporary literature ecology and 21st century working. This makes us responsive, clued up to local needs, and enthusiastic about literature across a range of cities and rural areas. Our main activities take place in the East and West Midlands, Yorkshire, London and the North West. Our work ranges from the curation of book tours, literary readings, spoken word and poetry performances, to educational workshops and mentoring. We populate our festivals and many of our events with a range of backgrounds, cultures, and ages. This makes for lively and engaging events at which literature is centre stage. We do this through curating, programming and producing literature in all its forms – from poetry to prose and satire to spoken word. We’re unique through our independent and entrepreneurial model, and through having a high level of advocacy for writers. Our artistic, social and economic commitment to diversity, and the arts, is reflected through a wide range of projects and events. We encourage and showcase a wide palette of voices.

kamitan arts

Kamitan Arts CIC is a Non-Profit Community Company, whose presence in the RBKC community has been evident for over 15 years. Who we help with our work: We work with children, young people and adults that are from disadvantaged backgrounds and challenging situations. All our programmes are inclusive and we always observe, critique and evaluate the learning and apply this to future work. Using these approaches shows that our ethos is to respect and understand without discrimination and embrace all communities in Kensington and Chelsea and beyond. Where and with whom we work with: We operate predominantly, but not exclusively in Kensington and Chelsea. In youth, community and play centres, schools, theatres and open air events in parks. Emmanuelle Marcel (Princess Emmanuelle), the Founding Director of Kamitan Arts, professionally trained at Dance and Theatre Schools most of her life (RTS, NSCD, BRIT, Urdang, LCDS) began volunteering at Lancaster Youth Centre in 1999 delivering drama sessions to SEND young people. She later went onto deliver dance workshops, performances, and collaborated on productions fusing Dance, Drama, Theatre and Poetry. In the early 2000’s Emmanuelle Marcel was employed as a freelancer and ever since has worked across London, the UK and abroad in a variety of settings and with Kamitan Arts. This includes: The Harrow Club – 2004 – 2011 Golborne Youth Centre – 2004 – 2010 RBKC Youth Arts – 2004-2007 Burlington Danes School – 2004 RBKC Youth Support and Development Service – Early-Mid 2000’s The Rugby Clubs – Early 2000’s The Venture Centre – 2004 – present The Tabernacle – where ‘Princess Emmanuelle’s’ first Spoken Word album was launched 2001 with a live spoken word set and theatrical performance (also 1999 – present) The Man in the Moon Theatre – 1999 One Voice – Vice Secretary and Poetry/Dance Theatre Tutor in 2011 Portobello Film Festival – Since the early 2000’s-present Holland Park School – Street Dance at the after school club – 2007 Inn on the Green – cultural performance and workshops with local young people The Royal Festival Hall – 2002 Tutoring and running workshops for Shared Experience Theatre Company in Soho Step Afrika UK’ 6-week summer project in a Lewisham Girls’ SEND school which resulted in a performance at Lilyan Bayliss – 2003 In Bradford and Leeds with ‘Breakers Unify’ – Early 2000’s Poetry workshops with inmates at Wandsworth Prison – Mid 2000’s Running independent workshops at the Favelas of Rio Brazil, Bahia Salvador, and in collaboration with Nu Tempo Dance Festival in Aracaju, Brazil – 2011 The Cairo Opera House, Cairo American College (CAC), The Sawy Culture Centre Theatre, also in Egypt, and Beit el Fenoon in Sudan (House of the Arts) – 2008-2011 Kensington Primary Academy – ‘Wonderful Woman’ Dance Classes (for women and mothers) Poetry 4 Grenfell – Voluntary Poetry workshops in North Kensington post the Grenfell fire and the documentation of this through film and the self-published book – 2017 – present Dance 4 Grenfell – Dance workshops for children affected by the Grenfell fire in the South of the RBKC borough @ Kensington Primary Academy – 2018 Lyrikal Art and Poetic Art – Multi-disciplinary sessions for children, young people and elderly, in Poetry, Art, Live Music and Movement where one artistic discipline is used as a stimulus for the other; to express oneself, alleviate loneliness and for healing to take place – 2018 – 2019 Virtual Acoustic Poetry (VAP) – Weekly online sessions tailored for an inter-generational creative community, enabling diverse artistry from RBKC, London and beyond! Bringing together live musicians, featured poets, artists and an inter-generational community to create and share in a safe virtual space. Welcoming all to participate in exploring thier own creativity and have thier voices heard; endeavouring to restore hope for a brighter day through-out and past the COVID19 Worldwide Pandemic – 2020 – Present. Kamitan Arts works with many artists and youth practitioners from Kensington and Chelsea, thus we’re well-connected with the local voluntary and community sector. We are always open to new collaborations and partnerships. Whether you work within the community or have a private or corporate project, please do get in touch.

the mehfil

Based in London, The Mehfil aims to spotlight contemporary culture from Pakistan and the Urdu language. Though a comparatively new nation, Pakistan has a long and rich cultural heritage - Karachi and Lahore being major centres of literature and the arts in the subcontinent for more than a thousand years. This relationship between Pakistan's 'newness' and 'oldness', along with its diverse ethnic composition, has given the country a distinct and effervescent identity, which colours its artistic, literary, and musical expressions. The Mehfil welcomes anyone wishing to discover this culturally significant facet of the subcontinent. Mehfil (noun) - An intimate evening of poetry, music or dance from the Indus region performed for a small audience. Mehfil in Urdu derives from the Arabic word mehfil (محفل‎), which means a (festive) "gathering to entertain (or praise someone)."

nine arches press

NINE ARCHES PRESS was founded in 2008 and emerged from an awareness of the local literary landscape and a desire to provide a platform for new and emerging poets. As a result, Under the Radar magazine was set up first, and Nine Arches Press swiftly moved onto publishing pamphlets by October of that year. By the following year we had brought out our first two full-length poetry collections, and a further batch of poetry pamphlets and issues of the magazine. Since 2008, Nine Arches has continued onwards and upwards, publishing poetry and continuing to develop Under the Radar magazine. In 2010, two of our pamphlets (The Terrors by Tom Chivers and The Titanic Cafe closes its doors and hits the rocks by David Hart, both now out of print) were shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Pamphlet prize. Next, Mark Goodwin's book Shod won the 2011 East Midlands Book Award. In 2017, All My Mad Mothers by Jacqueline Saphra was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Poetry Prize. Our titles have also been shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Prize, and in 2016 David Clarke's debut poems, Arc, was longlisted for the Polari Prize. To date we have now published over seventy poetry publications, and 20 issues of Under the Radar magazine (and counting). In addition to publishing, we are keen to participate in the wider creative community of writing, listening, reading and sharing. We run regular creative writing workshops, and offer workshops and masterclasses at a variety of festivals. We also co-run Leicester Shindig, a bi-monthly poetry open mic night, at The Western in Leicester, and are involved in a variety of live poetry events both regionally and nationally. Nine Arches Press places a high value on good, concise editing and in working closely with all of our authors and poets to ensure high-quality publications that we will both be proud to put our names to. Our status as an independent press gives us freedom to take risks and closely support the writers whose work we really believe in. Nine Arches’ aim is to publish bold, diverse and distinctive new writing, an invitation to an adventure in poetry for our readers. When looking for new writers to publish, the priority is always towards work that will excite, surprise or delight readers. With eclectic and wide-ranging tastes inspiring and informing Nine Arches Press, we do not believe in defining a 'type' or genre of work to publish, beyond saying that the main criteria is to select high-quality original work with a unique voice all of its own. We are also keen to increase the amount of poetry we consider and publish by writers from diverse backgrounds, and actively encourage submissions from writers who have been traditionally under-represented in poetry publishing in the UK. Nine Arches Press is proud to have become a member of Inpress, the UK’s specialist in selling books produced by independent publishers, in January 2013 – our titles are now represented by Inpress and our trade distribution is handled by NBN International. We kindly acknowledge the support of Arts Council England and we are a National Portfolio Organisation (from April 2018).

truth & dare events

I like unearthing the stories that need telling and finding the best way to tell them, whether that’s through sound, visual storytelling or on the page. I love to empower and support writers and performers and can help you to find your story and the courage, confidence and tools to tell it. I’m a creative communications professional, writing all manner of copy from the scientific to social media posts through to celebration of the sublime, and have had work published in local, regional and national outlets. I founded truth & dare events in 2021 to provide a platform for people with something to say. We’ve found a home for our poetry events at The Lamb Inn in Sandford, but facilitate poetry and creative writing workshops at Crediton Arts Centre and The White Room Creative Space. My first poetry pamphlet, you are here, was published with our very own fledgling imprint, Sandrock Press in 2021. You can find out more and buy a copy here. I live in a falling down house outside Exeter with a husband, daft dog, dribbly cat and three hens who foster not-so-secret plans for world domination.