welcome

from Coffee-House Poetry organiser, Anne-Marie Fyfe

Take off over the coming six spring weeks into an airy world of birdsong, tail-feathers, swooping & soaring (& into how our avian alter egos’ existences can be a metaphor for so many emotions & insights, myths & metamorphoses). Immerse yourself in an aviary of the imagination, a poetic bird-land, indulge in the art of bird-ology & discover the thinkers, painters, poets & prose writers who’ve long been captivated by our feathered friends.

Intrigued? Ornithologically inspired? Starts Sunday 30th March (see right, & classes page).

Meanwhile Between the Lines, our popular & inspirational creative-&-critical weekly workshop, is taking a break, with next new 7-wk course starting mid-May (see classes page). But open for applications now as – with limited group numbers – early booking’s essential & the course is always oversubscribed!

classes & courses

booking now

  • sun 27 apr—sat 28 jun, £280: root & branch: the enchantment of trees: 7-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
  • fri 16 may—sat 5 jul, £280: between the lines: 7-wk masterclass with cahal dallat

current
  • sun 30 mar—sat 7 jun: the avian eye: 7-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
  • 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: 7-wk masterclass with cahal dallat
  • sun 26 jan—sat 29 mar: nocturne: 7-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe

recent
  • 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: 7-wk masterclass with cahal dallat

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: 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: 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, 9-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
  • fri 24 may—sat 13 jul: between the lines – focus on form: 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

next event

thu 12 jun, 7.30 for 8pm, £10: night & light & the half-light: bedford park festival — yeats-birthday poetry evening with special guest christopher reid

… plus guest poets, hosted by Anne-Marie Fyfe & Cahal Dallat

The young Yeats, in Bedford Park, wrote of golden & silver light, of night & light & the half-light: join us in an evening of poems of shadow, shade & sunlight, dusk & dawn, grey skies & blue, candle-light, firelight, headlights, traffic lights & every kind of light & dark.

Celebrate our ‘local’ poet’s 160th birthday – & Bedford Park’s 150th – in a poetry evening introduced by Coffee-House Poetry organiser, poet Anne-Marie Fyfe (preceded by music & drinks on the lawn by the #EnwroughtLight artwork from 7:30 pm)…

…& after the interval, favourites from former Faber poetry editor Christopher Reid, who has edited The Letters of Seamus Heaney (2023), & has published 18 poetry collections including Costa-awarded The Scattering, & The Song of Lunch adapted by BBC TV with Alan Rickman & Emma Thomson.

And do bring your own light, night or twilight poem (max. 25 lines) for a chance to read!

Proceeds to: Bedford Park Festival Charities
Venue: St. Michael & All Angels Church, opp. Turnham Grn Tube, Bath Rd Chiswick London W4 1TX
Booking: via Bedford Park Festival

readings & talks

  • thu 12 jun, 7.30 for 8pm, £10: night & light & the half-light bedford park festival — yeats-birthday poetry night with special guest christopher reid
  • sun 15 jun, 2.30-5pm, £24: land of heart’s desire: wb yeats literary walk with cahal dallat

See full details of poetry readings

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