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

art: elena guryeva

next event

sun 27 apr—sat 28 jun: root & branch: the enchantment of trees: 7-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe

The trees witness everything: Victoria Chang

From newly planted saplings to a lone headland cypress, 3000-year-old sequoias or the Amazon rainforest, arboreal symbols are deep-rooted in the psyche – archetypes of life, strength, growth, wisdom. Collectively, in bower, greenwood, spinney or the sacred grove, they offer us sylvan dens of sanctuary & secrecy, escape from the madding crowd, become their own numinous world of myth, mystery, metamorphosis… & poetic invention.

Join us as we explore trees in their iconic, psychological & sensory implications, their ubiquity & absence, their seasons of starkness & leafy abundance, their Gothic majesty & suburban primness, their likeliest & unlikeliest of locations in landscape, imagination, personal experience, literature & the wider culture.

Your Root & Branch modules of tree-life thoughts & theories, facts & fictions, visual images, poetry & prose inspirations, & directed tasks, will arrive in your inbox on Sundays & Wednesdays for six weeks, ending with advice on editing your work. Two weeks later there’s a written appraisal of your submitted excerpt, followed by an end-of-course Zoom gathering!

Numbers limited, email coffpoetry@aol.com to apply, & booking link will be forwarded if place available.

#poetrymondays

  • mon 10 mar, 8pm: talking transatlantic with mark doty: reading & in-conversation (free online event)

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