welcome
from Coffee-House Poetry organiser, Anne-Marie Fyfe
If you missed Beyond the Blue first time round, perhaps now’s the time to escape into the lyrical & emotional enchantments & entanglements, the mysteries & deeper meanings, of the colour blue (starts Sunday 2nd March, see full course description right).
Also as Cahal Dallat’s current Between The Lines creative & critical workshop/masterclass was oversubscribed we’ve now scheduled a second run of the same Between The Lines course from Fri 21 Feb (see classes page).
The course features major US poet Mark Doty as first of six poets studied, & those in both Between The Lines groups have a guaranteed place at our free Mon 10 Mar talking transatlantic Zoom with Mark reading/in-conversation with Cahal, for which bookings will open early March: see #poetrymondays page &, if you haven’t already, sign up for our newsletter!
Also do check out ( on our poems page) winners & commendeds in the Troubadour International Poetry Prize from around the world (see pic below) 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 on Mon 9 Dec plus poems from the judges, & their thoughts on the poems that made it to the top of the stack!
classes & courses
booking now
- fri 23 may—sat 12 jul: between the lines, a 7-wk masterclass with cahal dallat
*current
- sun 2 mar—sat 3 may: beyond the blue: 7-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
- fri 21 feb—sat 12 apr: between the lines, a 7-wk masterclass with cahal dallat
current
- sun 26 jan—sat 29 mar, £280: nocturne, a 7-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
- sun 12 jan—sat 15 mar: home truth: architecture & longing: 7-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
- fri 10 jan—sat 1 mar: between the lines, a 7-wk masterclass with cahal dallat
recent 2024
- 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
- 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
