From mist-drenched ballads and Blakean visions to folk horror, psychogeography and contemporary eco-poetics, British poetry has always been a landscape of strangeness. This course will explore how poets past and present have re-enchanted Albion, uncovering its myths, hauntings, and radical reimaginings.
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Reweirding Albion will facilitate a return to the uncanny, mythic, folkloric, or visionary dimensions of Britain, exploring poets who engage with the strangeness of landscape, the multiplicity of folklore, magic the numinous and the radical imagination of the British Isles. Participants will encounter a range of writers, including Jason Allen-Paisant, Alice Oswald, Dom Bury, Jack Underwood, William Blake, Zaffar Kunial, Sean Borodale, Mona Arshi, Sean Hewitt and Alison Brackenbury.
This course aims to reclaim a feeling of enchantment with the land and a renewed sense of wonder, weirdness and connection inspired by contemporary folk and outsider artists, place-based writers, poets and performers. Participants will create new poems inspired by the themes of the course and have the opportunity to get tutor feedback.
Reweirding Albion is an asynchronous correspondence course. When you enrol, you will be given access to Google Classroom where you can download an assignment once per fortnight (5 assignments over 10 weeks; you will have one week to work on each assignment). Each assignment contains a rich range of reading material linked to prompts. You will select one piece to submit for feedback and will be encouraged to share with and support this online peer group. You will receive comments from the tutor on submissions.
Note: this course began life as ‘Re-Enchanting the Land’ at Dialect in 2023, went on walkabout to Poetry School for the Spring and Summer terms 2026 and now returns to Dialect for Autumn 2026.
Starts 1st September 2026. The assignment release and submission dates are listed below.
1st September
Assignment 1 released
8th September
Assignment 1 submission
15th September
Assignment 1 feedback
Assignment 2 released
22nd September
Assignment 2 submission
29th September
Assignment 2 feedback
Assignment 3 released
6th October
Assignment 3 submission
13th October
Assignment 3 feedback
Assignment 4 released
20th October
Assignment 4 submission
27th October
Assignment 4 feedback
Assignment 5 released
3rd November
Assignment 5 submission
10th November
Assignment 5 feedback – course end.
Your tutor: JLM Morton
JLM Morton’s poetry has appeared on BBC6 Music, in Poetry Review, Poetry London, Rialto, Magma, Mslexia and elsewhere. She’s won the Geoffrey Dearmer and Laurie Lee prizes and was highly commended by the Forward Prizes. Her debut collection is Red Handed (2024). Her second, Borrowed Ground, is out in August 2026.