welcome

from Coffee-House Poetry organiser, Anne-Marie Fyfe

Super celebration, last night, of winners & commendeds in the Troubadour International Poetry Prize from around the world, with (top row) 2024 judges Jane Yeh & Glyn Maxwell together with winners (bottom row) Imogen Wade (1st), Victoria Korth (3rd) & Weijia Pan (2nd) who read along with our 20 special commendations, plus poems from the judges, & their thoughts on the poems that made it to the top of the stack!

See winning & commended poems, & judges reports on our poems page!

classes & courses

booking now

  • sun 12 jan—sat 15 mar, £280: home truth: architecture & longing: 7-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
  • fri 10 jan—sat 1 mar, £280: between the lines, a 7-wk masterclass with cahal dallat

current
  • sun 20 oct—sat 14 dec: taking a walk: the poetry of footfall: 7-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
  • sun 20 oct—sat 14 dec: beyond the blue: 7-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
  • fri 25 oct—sat 14 dec: between the lines, a 7-wk masterclass with cahal dallat
  • sun 22 sep—sat 23 nov: root & branch: the enchantment of trees: 7-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe

recent
  • sun 8 sep—sat 2 nov: beyond the blue: 7-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
  • fri 6 sep—sat 26 oct: between the lines, a 7-wk masterclass with cahal dallat
  • sun 8 sep, 2.30-5pm: poetry in the pavements: explore the young wb yeats’s west-london world with cahal dallat
  • sun 23 jun—sat 24 aug: solitary spaces: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series on solitude, with anne-marie fyfe
  • sun 16 jun, 2.30-5pm: land of heart’s desire: wb yeats literary walk with cahal dallat
  • sun 26 may—sat 27 jul: nocturne, a 9-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
  • fri 24 may—sat 13 jul: between the lines – focus on form, a 7-wk masterclass with cahal dallat
  • sun 21 apr—sat 29 jun: root & branch: the enchantment of trees: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series anne-marie fyfe
  • sun 7 apr—sat 15 jun: the avian eye: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe

See full details of classes and workshops

making waves: rob gonsalves

next event

sun 12 jan—sat 15 mar, £280: home truth: architecture & longing: 7-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe

Home: where the art is – or where art, & poetry, first start? Source of aching nostalgia or focus of fractured domesticity, cherished living space or vanished former abode, primal in memory & dreams, a place that’s longed for or gladly relinquished?

We investigate home’s multiple meanings, the who-why-where? of it, its quirks, its ineluctable grip on the psyche, building a body of work that explores our take on this complex concept through a range of strategies including poetry, lyric essay, prose-poem, personal letter, magical realism, film technique, ventriloquism, duende, diary entry, flash fiction & micro-memoir.

Your ‘home-work’ (thoughts & theories, images, inspirations & tasks) will arrive in your inbox twice weekly, ending with a module on ways to edit/shape/polish your writing over the subsequent fortnight. Two weeks later there’s a written appraisal of your submitted excerpt, followed by an end-of-course Zoom reading!

Numbers limited, email coffpoetry@aol.com to apply, & booking link will be forwarded if place available.

#poetrymondays

  • mon 9 dec, 8pm: troubadour international poetry prize night: judges jane yeh & glyn maxwell (free online event) with 2024 prizewinners!
  • talking transatlantic with mark doty & dennis nurkse: two more free online reading & in-conversation events in early 2025

See full details of poetry readings

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