Getting Cosy with Poetry - Newark Buttermarket - Adult Learning

Newark Buttermarket, Exchange Shopping Centre

Date	6 November - 11 December 2025
Sessions	Thursdays: 2pm - 4pm
No. sessions	6
Venue	Newark Buttermarket, Exchange Shopping Centre View venue details View on Google Maps
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 10
Cost	FREE - £48

About this course

As the blazing days of Autumn give way to the longer nights of winter, we often reflect on the seasons: what it means to the natural world as it prepares to rest, and what it means to us.   Over six sessions, you will use some famous (and not so famous) examples of Autumn poetry as prompts to get you writing yourself.

This course aims to help you record what you notice and want to remember about this special time. The course is suitable for beginners, but you will enjoy the course if you already have some experience of writing poetry.   

During this course, we will cover:

- Using others’ poems as inspiration for your own 

- Following existing poems’ structures to build your own  

- Using images and memories to ignite ideas for poems 

- Using your five senses to write  

- Recognising the clues in the shape of a poem – poetic form  

- Understanding what a metaphor is in a poem 

- Transferable skills such as how to give (and receive) constructive feedback

What you will need to bring to the course:

Pen and a notebook preferably A4

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Liverpool City Region
Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
Tees Valley
West of England
West Midlands
West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course
Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office
You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014