Coffee-House Poetry : Readings, Classes, Prizes

welcome

from Coffee-House Poetry organiser, Anne-Marie Fyfe

Bring in the new poetry year with a Jane Hirshfield #poetrymonday (Jan 17, booking from today, see right); plus apply now for ninth-edition Between the Lines craft/critical masterclass focusing on 6 new poetry paragons; plus-plus an extra by-demand outing for the v. successful 9-week creative, Taking a Walk, a theme that’s clearly firing collective & far-from-pedestrian imaginations! (Book via our classes & courses page.)

And if you haven’t already, do check out 2021’s Troubadour International Poetry Prize winning poems (here) announced at our Mon 6th Dec Prize Night; & watch for news of 2022’s judges, deadlines & prizes to follow.

Here’s to a stimulating & all-round poetically enjoyable & creative 2022 with Coffee-House Poetry!

#poetrymondays on Zoom!

mon 17 jan, 8pm: jane hirshfield: reading & in-conversation with cahal dallat (free online event)

See full details of poetry readings

classes & courses

sun 16 jan—sun 20 mar, £180: taking a walk — the poetry of footfall: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
fri 28 jan–sat 19 mar, £130 between the lines #9, a 7-wk close reading & critical masterclass with cahal dallat

See full details of classes and workshops

next event

mon 17 jan 8pm: jane hirshfield: reading & in-conversation (free online event)

Next guest in our US poets’ #poetrymonday reading/interview series (with poet & critic Cahal Dallat) is New-York-born poet, essayist, and translator Jane Hirshfield, an ‘eloquent and exacting’ poet according to Kay Ryan.

Author of nine poetry collections, Hirshfield has been praised by Nobel-Prize-winner Czesław Miłosz for her ‘profound empathy for the suffering of all living beings’: & Judith Kitchen has written on how Hirshfield’s poems ‘negotiate the difficulty of living while, at the same time, paying homage to what life has to offer’.

Hirshfield has long explored the poetry/science relationship (including as artist-in-residence at a Univ. California neuroscience program), an intersection that takes on new global/climate-crisis urgency in her just-launched latest collection Ledger (Penguin, Fall 2021).

free online event, numbers limited, advance booking only, email info@coffeehousepoetry.org to apply
& PayPal booking link will be forwarded if place available.