Spring Poetry - Newark Buttermarket - Adult Learning

Newark Buttermarket, Exchange Shopping Centre

Date	26 February - 26 March 2026
Sessions	Thursdays: 2pm - 4pm
No. sessions	5
Venue	Newark Buttermarket, Exchange Shopping Centre View venue details View on Google Maps
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 10
Cost	FREE - £40

About this course

Spring celebrates hope and renewal. Through time and across the world, Spring has inspired poets to capture that spirit of the new. Over five sessions you will use some famous (and not so famous) examples of Spring poetry to get you writing poetry. 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 if you already have some poetry experience, you will also enjoy this course.

During the 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  
Transferable skills such as active listening, and how to express opinions in a group

Please bring with you to the course:-

Pen and notepad 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.