welcome
from Coffee-House Poetry organiser, Anne-Marie Fyfe
News of a brand new 7-wk themed workshop, Beyond the Blue (see right) & the latest in Between the Lines, a creative/critical series (see classes), both starting September & booking now.
Plus full details (on prizes page) of our 2024 Troubadour International Poetry Prize with judges Jane Yeh & Glyn Maxwell, £3,500 in prizes, winners invited to read with judges in an online international prizenight celebration, poems on any theme, via email & pay online.
And check out (on the poems page) our 2023 winners, seen below at online prizenight: (clockwise) judges Tom Sleigh in Brooklyn, Mona Arshi in Cambridge, & prizewiners (2nd) Simon Walsh in Vermont, (3rd) Jane Wilkinson in Norfolk, & (1st) Jennifer Harrison in Victoria, Australia, with commendeds from Toronto to Tasmania, plus Devon, Dublin, London, Edinburgh, Belfast, New South Wales, Surrey, etc & audience Zooming in from all around the world to hear great readings & Mona’s & Tom’s own poems & words of wisdom on what makes a great poem, & why poetry matters!
readings
- thu 13 jun, 7.30 for 8pm, £10: bedford park festival — yeats-birthday poetry night: ‘in the deep heart’s core’ with special guest jeremy vine, hosted by anne-marie fyfe & cahal dallat
See full details of poetry readings
classes & courses
- booking now
- sun 8 sep—sat 2 nov, £280: beyond the blue: 7-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
- fri 6 sep—sat 26 oct, £280: between the lines, a 7-wk close reading & critical masterclass with cahal dallat
- current
- sun 23 jun—sat 24 aug: solitary spaces: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series on solitude, with anne-marie fyfe
- 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 close reading & critical 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
- recent
- sun 7 apr—sat 15 jun: the avian eye: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
- sun 16 jun, 2.30-5pm: land of heart’s desire: wb yeats literary walk with cahal dallat for wb yeats bedford park project
- fri 16 feb—sat 6 apr: between the lines #16, a 7-wk close reading & critical masterclass with cahal dallat
- sun 11 feb—sat 13 apr: root & branch: the enchantment of trees: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series anne-marie fyfe
- sun 4 feb—sun 7 apr: taking a walk: the poetry of footfall: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
- sun 7 jan—sat 9 mar: root & branch: the enchantment of trees: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series anne-marie fyfe
- fri 5 jan—sat 24 feb: between the lines #15 – focus on form#1, a 7-wk close reading & critical masterclass with cahal dallat
- 2023
- sun 15 oct—sat 16 dec: solitary spaces: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series on solitude, with anne-marie fyfe
- fri 27 oct—sat 16 dec: between the lines #14, a 7-wk close reading & critical masterclass with cahal dallat
- sun 24 sep—sat 25 nov: the avian eye: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
- sun 3 sep—sat 4 nov: home truth: architecture & longing: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
- sun 8 oct, 2.30-5pm: land of heart’s desire: wb yeats literary walk with cahal dallat for wb yeats bedford park project
