Writing Poetry

Join much-loved local poet and publisher Philip Rush on this fun and playful poetry writing course.

Each week you will read poems on a theme and respond by drafting your own poems in class, which you will share for feedback with the group. Themes might include clothes, parents, landscape and more. This is a great workshop for anyone wanting to kickstart a new writing habit and get some fresh words on the page.

Time / Dates / Venue Details

This is a face to face course. Workshops will take place on Mondays 11am - 1pm in the Blue Room at the Centre for Science and Art, 13 Landsdown, Stroud, GL5 1BB. The venue is a 3 minute walk from the train and bus stations and there is ample parking nearby in Church Street.

Dates: January 24th, February 14th, March 7th and 28th

Cost £100 for the four workshops; 10% off if you book with Poetic Form II  (total £180 for 8 workshops).

To book both Poetic Form II and Writing Poetry, email dialectwriters@gmail.com.

To book Writing Poetry only, book via Ticketsource here.

Full and partial bursaries are available for this course on application to dialectsubmissions@gmail.com  

Philip Rush was born and grew up in Middlesex and London. He taught English in Gloucestershire schools for forty years. He has been running an independent poetry press, Yew Tree Press, for several years now and hosts regular poetry events at the Museum in the Park. He endorses poems which combine the surface appeal of well-composed prose with he meditative qualities of a period of silence or of a walk through familiar countryside.