A tidy workspace with a white desk, open notebook, books, and papers, a yellow mug, a potted plant, a black desk lamp, and framed artwork on the wall.
Book cover for 'Poetry Studio' with Shazeqa Quraishi, featuring a colorful geometric design with blocks of green, blue, light blue, and yellow.

Poetry Studio

at home in the world

ONLINE

Poetry Studio

Monthly, evenings

A hospitable space for new and experienced poets to come together to read poems in English and in translation to inspire writing. Focussing on the creative process rather than product – there is no element of critique.

Informal discussion on a theme provides an opportunity to reflect on individual poetics, and structured writing exercises are designed to seed new poems.

You will come away having experienced poems by poets familiar and new from around the world, as well as

  • the beginnings of 2-3 new poems

  • takeaways for further reading and writing

  • strategies to develop your work further

Online sessions take place on Zoom and last three hours with short breaks. Places are limited to keep the group small

IN PERSON

Writing awake to times of crisis

Sunday afternoon, monthly
YogaPoint (July—)
Round Table Books

Join us as we take action by paying attention — reading and writing in response to what is going on around us, close by and far away.

We will take inspiration from poets from around the world, to write our own poems that look closely, as only we can, at the world now. 

This workshop is open to new and experienced writers of poetry, and anyone who is curious about writing as expression and discovery.  You will leave having read and discussed contemporary poems, and begun your own poems of witness, in a supportive and nourishing group.

IN PERSON

Chener Poetry Group

Mondays, monthly
Chener Books

Join Shazia at Chener Books in East Dulwich to write, inspired by reading a wide range of contemporary poems in a supportive group. We will explore craft, and generate new work with an option to share. For new and experienced poets.