welcome
from Coffee-House Poetry organiser, Anne-Marie Fyfe
Save the date! Mon 18 Nov (8 pm), Jane Hirshfield kicks off our next Talking Transatlantic series of free, online #poetrymonday US-poet readings/conversations (with poet & critic Cahal Dallat). A welcome return visit following her tour of China & publication of The Asking: New & Selected Poems by Bloodaxe (UK) & Knopf (US). Always a fascinating & engaging guest, Jane, like all our #poetrymonday interviewees, will be asked to reveal one specific secret in her poetry practice!
Events are still free & online but booking’s essential (limit 100) so watch out for booking details in future emails. (And if you’re not already signed up, click here!)
And continuing with the series that’s already brought us, among others, Joshua Bennett, Naomi Shihab Nye, Tom Sleigh, Dana Gioia, Jane Hirshfield & Mark Halliday, in early 2025 we’ll be talking transatlantically with Mark Doty, Professor Emeritus at Rutgers, who, since his 2020 online Troubadour International Poetry Prize reading, has moved out of NYC & owns a 13-acre Hudson River Valley farm, where he’s absorbed by bee-keeping, nesting boxes, heirloom tomatoes, & poems, naturally.
And then the superb Dennis Nurkse, whose poetry so many of you have engaged with. All three guests have featured recently in Cahal Dallat’s Between The Lines masterclass series.
American Jane Yeh & London-based Glyn Maxwell read, of course, in a special 9th December #poetrymonday to announce, & celebrate, the poems they will have selected in their role as 2024 Troubadour International Poetry Prize judges. Winners & commendeds get to read alongside the judges, so do check out closing date etc below if you’d like to be one of those winners!
And in other news: a second run of ‘blue’-themed creative-writing course, Beyond the Blue & a repeat of Taking a Walk, both seven weeks starting Sun 20 Oct. And with the current Between the Lines creative & critical masterclass coming to an end, there’s another run of that course starting Fri 25 Oct, all on our classes page.
An exciting, intensive, immersive #coffeehousepoetry autumn! Looking forward to catching up with so many of you!
#poetrymondays
- mon 18 nov 8pm: talking transatlantic with jane hirshfield: reading & in-conversation, with Cahal Dallat (free online event)
- mon 9 dec, 7.30 pm: troubadour international poetry prize night: judges jane yeh & glyn maxwell (free online event) with 2024 prizewinners!
- talking transatlantic with mark doty & dennis nurkse: two more free online reading & in-conversation events in early 2025
See full details of poetry readings
classes & courses
booking now
- sun 20 oct—sat 14 dec, £280: taking a walk: the poetry of footfall: 7-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
- sun 20 oct—sat 14 dec, £280: beyond the blue: 7-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
- fri 25 oct—sat 14 dec, £280: between the lines, a 7-wk close reading & critical masterclass with cahal dallat
current
- 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 close reading & critical masterclass with cahal dallat
recent
- 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 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
- sun 7 apr—sat 15 jun: the avian eye: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
- 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
