welcome

from Coffee-House Poetry organiser, Anne-Marie Fyfe

Every poem’s a setting-out into the unknown, an exploration, whether of landscape, streetscape or mindscape, in parkland & public highway, or the byways, the freeways of invention, recollection, imagination.

No surer-fired inspiration for this spring/summer’s writing than putting one foot in front of the other, both physically & metaphorically, & stepping out on a hike, stroll, meander – a walk on the wild side (by email/Zoom, see right).

 

classes & courses

  • sun 28 may—sat 29 jul, £280: taking a walk: the poetry of footfall: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
  • sun 5 mar—sat 6 may, £280: nocturne: a 9-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
  • fri 3 mar—sat 29 apr, £240: between the lines #12 – focus on form#2, a 7-wk close reading & critical masterclass with cahal dallat
  • sun 15 jan—sat 18 mar, £280: solitary spaces: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series on solitude, with anne-marie fyfe
  • 2022
  • sun 9 oct—sat 10 dec: taking a walk: the poetry of footfall: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
  • fri 7 oct—sat 3 dec: between the lines #11, a 7-wk close reading & critical masterclass with cahal dallat
  • sun 28 aug—sat 10 dec: home truth: architecture & longing: 12-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe

See full details of classes and workshops

readings

  • Wed 14 Jun, 7.30pm, Bedford Park Festival celebrates Yeats’s Birthday: Only My Dreams with special guest Marina Warner …plus London and local poets, hosted by Anne-Marie Fyfe & Cahal Dallat

See full details of poetry readings

(pic: Man Walking on a Road, Kristian Lampinen)

next event

sun 28 may—sat 29 jul, £280: taking a walk: the poetry of footfall: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe

The joys of striding out & a chance to step outside yourself, literally & virtually, & let wandering lead you where it will — get you lost or take you home, find you heading-somewhere/going-nowhere, perhaps, on pilgrimages & peregrinations that are directional, orbital, exploratory & immersive, subconscious or psychogeographic.

On foot (in both imagination & actuality, though nothing too demanding) at various hours & several weathers, by familiar walkways, urban alleys & riverbank towpaths, on routes subterranean or sublime – & ever, as poets, witnessing, creating, inventing, simply being present.

Your perambulatory ‘itineraries’ (with exercises, images, inspirations & observations on the history, psychology & philosophy of walking) will pop up in your inbox twice a week (one real, one virtual) for six weeks, ending with a (week seven) module on shaping/structuring/polishing your work. Two weeks later there’ll be 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.

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