Poetry for Beginners - Southwell Library - Adult Learning

Southwell Library, Southwell

Date	12 January - 9 February 2023
Sessions	Thursdays: 10am - 12pm
No. sessions	5
Venue	Southwell Library, Southwell View venue details
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 15
Cost	FREE - £30

About this course

This five-session course aims to open the door to writing your own poems. We will use a range of prompts, pictures and poems to get you started. So if you have always wanted to try writing poems but have been put off by thinking it’s too hard or that it always has to be about ‘big ideas’ come along and give Poetry for Beginners a try.  

Over the duration of the course, we will look at:

- Getting the creative process started using images and existing poems 

- Mining your memories and using your five senses to kickstart poems 

- Why modern poems come in all shapes and sizes and don’t need to rhyme.  

- Recognising the clues about a poem from the way it looks – poetic form 

- Drafting and writing a number of poems    

- Sharing your work with the group and listening to others’ poems

- How to give helpful feedback on others’ poems and use feedback to develop your work

You will need a notebook and a pen to participate on this course.

Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of 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 webpage for further information https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas: