New Year New Poems - Newark Buttermarket - Adult Learning

Newark Buttermarket, Exchange Shopping Centre

Date	15 January - 12 February 2026
Sessions	Thursdays: 10am - 12pm
No. sessions	5
Venue	Newark Buttermarket, Exchange Shopping Centre View venue details View on Google Maps
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 8
Cost	FREE - £40

About this course

The new year often gets us thinking about resolutions, making the most of an activity we love. Most of us need help to make that happen, and this course aims to give you encouragement and focus to stretch yourself and try out new poetic ideas. This 5-session course is at Intermediate level, for those who have written and shared their poetry before. 

During the course, we will cover: - Close reading of others’ poems and taking inspiration for your own work  - Experimenting with forms you have not tried before    - Linking the shape and form of your poem to what you want to say  - Developing your use of techniques such as metaphor in your poems  - Develop skills of giving and receiving feedback in the group  - How to give (and receive) constructive feedback   

What you will need to bring to the course:

A pen and A4 notebook

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

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.