Online Evening Course: Poetry – Towards a Collection

You’ve reached that pivotal moment and have enough poems for a first collection – but what to do next? The task ahead might feel daunting. You may be wondering whether a poetry collection has to be tightly themed, or if can it be a loose unravelling of a story only you can tell? Should it be a mix of your ‘best’, fresh new work, or your most successful poems to date? Your tutors will guide you through this with practical techniques for ordering, polishing and refining your poems, for tuning into and trusting your own voice. This course with poets Jane Commane and Ian Humphreys will enable you to become your own best ‘self editor’ – to look closely at the delicate mechanisms that make a poem tick and to understand what publishers look out for. As well as encouraging you to explore form and spot gaps and opportunities in your poetry, the course includes creative prompts, activities and poems to act as springboards for you to write surprising and exciting new work.

Do you want to commit time to your writing but can only manage a couple of hours a week? Would you like a writing boost and a network of writing buddies? Then join us for this Arvon Evening Course which unpacks our popular 5-day online writing week over 5 weeks of evening classes. Each week, your tutors will deliver a workshop designed to propel your writing forward, with one-to-one tutorials offered mid-course, alongside tutor readings and weekly socials.  You will develop a regular writing routine and come away from the course with a whole new network of contacts and companions for your writing years ahead.

This course is also running in our popular 5-day Residential Writing Week format. It will be held at Totleigh Barton, Monday January 23rd – Saturday January 28th 2023. More info.

Online: £425

Concessions: £297.50

As part of our effort to increase participation in the arts, we offer limited concessionary places at a 30% reduction. You can select this option at checkout if available.

Grants are available to help with the course fee

We are committed to making our Arvon at Home programme accessible to as many people as possible.

Across all of Arvon at Home

• All sessions will have auto-generated captioning.
• During sessions we will have a text version available via screen share.
• There is a Chat facility to ask any questions.

Masterclasses and Online Writing Day

• A recording of the Masterclass will be available to view for one month after it is aired live.
• There is a Chat and Q & A facility to ask any questions.
• Zoom webinar format (your video and audio will remain off throughout, & your name will not be visible to other participants so it is a ‘relaxed’ event).

How I Write

• There is a chat and Q&A facility to ask any questions.
• Zoom webinar format (your video and audio will remain off throughout, & your name will not be visible to other participants so it is a ‘relaxed’ event).

Online Writing Weeks / Weekends

• Courses have much smaller groups than Masterclasses and How I Write events, and are also more interactive with your fellow course participants and tutors, so cameras and audio are usually on (though both are completely optional). If you would prefer your camera and audio to be off, it would be helpful to let your course host know this in advance.

Subject to funding/permissions (please contact us for more details)

• Recording of Writing Weeks and Weekends.
• Downloadable transcripts.
• BSL interpretation.
• Live captioning.

If you have any access issues that we have not covered here, please contact us on access@arvon.org

See here for more access information.