Poetry for Beginners - Newark Buttermarket - Adult Learning

Newark Buttermarket, Exchange Shopping Centre

Key details

Date -
Sessions Thursdays: 2pm - 4pm
No. sessions 5
Venue Newark Buttermarket, Exchange Shopping Centre
For ages 19+
Group size 5 - 10
Cost FREE - £40

About this course

Over six sessions, this course will give you the tools and confidence to start writing poems. You will use real life objects and images as prompts for writing, and use examples of different types of poems such as haiku, to get you started, as well as understanding the techniques that poets use to achieve their effects. This course is aimed at beginners, so everyone is welcome.

During the course, we will look at: - What makes a poem?    - How your senses and life experience are starting points for writing poems  - Using everyday objects to inspire poems   - How to read a poem for understanding    - An introduction to the shape and form of poetry   - How simile, metaphor, alliteration and other poetic techniques work to build a poem  - Transferable skills such as active listening, and how to express opinions in a group

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

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

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