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Show the poet in your life that you know their preoccupations by registering them for one or more of our Hyperfocus courses around a theme that interests them.

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climate (September 2026)

DATES: 1–22 September 2026, Tuesdays 6-8pm UK
TUTORS: PASCALE PETIT, TISHANI DOSHI

The planet is heating up at an unprecedented rate. Sea levels are rising. Heatwaves are becoming a common feature in most parts of Europe, and as Greenpeace pointed out, this will be the coolest summer we’ll ever experience for the rest of our lives. So what can poetry do about it? How can it raise awareness or highlight the pressing need to preserve life on earth? For the first month of Hyperfocus join two multi award-winning poets, Pascale Petite and Tishani Doshi, as they lead generative workshops that look at the many ways a poem can respond, interact and complicate its environment at both a personal and figurative level.

Ekphrasis (October 2026)

DATES: 6–27 October 2026, Tuesdays 7-9pm UK
TUTORS: RACHAEL ALLEN, LUCY MERCER

Ekphrasis means using the description of a work of visual art as a literary device, or can also mean just writing about images. What is a text and what is an image, and are poems a type of image? What kinds of strategies and approaches can poets use when they draw on or reference images or works of visual art in their poems? How does a poem change how we interpret and perceive images? Join Rachael Allen and Lucy Mercer as they lead workshops that look at the relation of poems to images; from poems about art, to writing about ways of seeing, to concrete poems, and more.

Home (November 2026)

DATES: 3–24 November 2026, Tuesdays 7-9pm UK

TUTORS: ANTHONY JOSEPH, HELEN MORT

This four week course will explore how poetry responds to ideas of place, both exterior and interior landscapes. How can poems of 'home' move beyond the anecdotal or purely descriptive? Can a poem become a home in itself? Must the poet always take the conflicted position described by Seamus Heaney – 'lost, unhappy and at home'? These workshops will include prompts and readings designed to defamiliarise the familiar notions of home, whatever that may mean to the individual writer.

Resistance - playback (April 2026)

TUTORS: JOELLE TAYLOR, ANTHONY ANAXAGOROU
Writing poems that talk truth to power or address the state of the nation can often be tricky to navigate. Either a poem is so direct it ends up feeling didactic or it's so subtle it doesn't have the push and bite it needs to make its case.

Over the course of the four weeks participants will explore what it means to write a poem that is concerned with the world, injustice, oppression, trauma and witness. With Playback access you’ll receive access to password-protected recordings of each of the four sessions, together with all course materials.

Grief - playback (Jan 2026)

TUTORS: PASCALE PETIT, EMILY BERRY
Consider the different ways poems can help get between the feelings of grief and loss and look at how to ensure a poem remains artful while also true to its emotional life and sensibility. Both Emily Berry and Pascale Petit have written extensively on the theme of grief using metaphor, allegory and anecdote and will be guiding poets through a range of tips and prompts aimed at enhancing their skillset and thinking around the kind of poetry they want to write.

With Playback access you’ll receive access to password-protected recordings of each of the four sessions, together with all course materials.

Parents - playback (Feb 2026)

3–24 FEBRUARY 2026
TUTORS: CAROLINE BIRD, JACK UNDERWOOD

How do you write about a problematic parent(s)? How best could you navigate a complex upbringing? How do you handle the sheer awe and panic of being a new parent? How do you write about the loss of a parent? In this second segment of Hyperfocus, join poets Caroline Bird and Jack Underwood as they look at ways we can write poems that draw from the multilayered experiences of having parents and being a parent.

With Playback access you’ll receive access to password-protected recordings of each of the four sessions, together with all course materials.

Eros - playback (March 2026)

TUTORS: KIM ADDONIZIO, OLUWASEUN OLAYIWOLA

Love, desire, lust, eros and longing are all part of March’s Hyperfocus. Participants will be looking at what makes an erotic poem… erotic. How does one write erotica without sounding crass or twee, how can we express notions of longing or desire for another person and not make the poem feel like it's over-reaching or performative and if we are to write sex how much does that involve the body. How do sexuality, ability and gender impact the way we write into these themes?

With Playback access you’ll receive access to password-protected recordings of each of the four sessions, together with all course materials.

Pascale Petit’s ninth poetry collection, Beast, published by Bloodaxe in 2025, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her novel, My Hummingbird Father, was published by Salt in 2024. She has published nine poetry collections, four of which were shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Mama Amazonica won the RSL Ondaatje, and Laurel prizes. Her eighth, Tiger Girl, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and Wales Book of the Year. She tutors for the Arvon Advanced Writing Programme and led popular poetry courses at Tate Modern for nine years.

Tishani Doshi publishes poetry, fiction, and essays. Her fifth collection of poetry, Egrets, While War (Bloodaxe Books), explores the body, violence, and renewal in fractured times, and has been longlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2026. A former lead dancer with the Chandralekha company in Madras, she is the author of multiple award-winning and shortlisted books. She is a visiting professor at NYU Abu Dhabi, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.  https://tishanidoshi.weebly.com/

Rachael Allen is the author of God Complex and Kingdomland, both published by Faber. She works as an editor and lecturer in London. 

Lucy Mercer’s first collection Emblem (Prototype, 2022) was a Poetry Book Society Choice. She often collaborates with artists and her visual work has been exhibited at Hollybush Gardens and RAMM. Her nonfiction essay on wax and mortality, Afterlife, is forthcoming with Fitzcarraldo Editions.

Helen Mort has published four poetry collections with Chatto & Windus. Her latest is STEPMOTHER (July 2026). Her work has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Anthony Joseph is a Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician. His 2022 collection Sonnets for Albert won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2022 and the OCM BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Poetry.

He is the author of six poetry collections and three novels. As a musician, he has released ten critically acclaimed albums. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Lecturer in  Creative Writing at Kings College, London. His most recent publication is Haunting the Black Air (Bloomsbury Poetry).

Emily Berry is is the author of three books of poems published by Faber & Faber: Dear Boy (2013), Stranger, Baby (2017) and Unexhausted Time (2022). A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she edited The Poetry Review between 2017 and 2022 and is now editor-in-chief of the bedtime stories app Sleep Worlds.

Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright. Her sixth collection, The Air Year, won the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020 and was shortlisted for the Polari Prize and the Costa Prize. Her fifth collection, In These Days of Prohibition, was shortlisted for the 2017 TS Eliot Prize and the Ted Hughes Award. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and was shortlisted for the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2001 and the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2008 and 2010. She was one of the five official poets at the 2012 London Olympics. As a playwright, Bird has been shortlisted for the George Devine Award and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Her Selected Poems, Rookie, was published in May 2022.

Jack Underwood is a poet, writer and critic. He is author of Happiness (Faber 2015) Solo for Mascha Voice (Test Centre, 2018) and A Year in the New Life (Faber 2021). His debut work of non-fiction, NOT EVEN THIS, was published by Corsair in 2021, exploring parallels between quantum physics, black hole science, cyborgism, and the philosophies of language and knowledge and poetics, all through the lens of new parenthood. He has collaborated widely with composers and artists, and his work has been published internationally and in translation. He is co-presenter and curator of the Faber Poetry Podcast and is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College, and is currently working on a collection of short fiction.

Kim Addonizio  is the author of nine poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry, The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. She has received fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundation, Pushcart Prizes in both poetry and the essay, and her work has been widely translated and anthologized. Tell Me was a National Book Award Finalist in poetry. Her latest poetry collection is Exit Opera, from W.W. Norton. She teaches poetry workshops on Zoom from Oakland, CA and is online at https://www.kimaddonizio.com

Oluwaseun (Seun) Olayiwola is a poet, critic, choreographer and performer based in London. His creative and critical work has been published in: the Guardian, The Poetry Review, PN Review, Oxford Poetry, the Telegraph, the TLS and elsewhere. His debut collection, Strange Beach, was published in 2025 by Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) and Soft Skull Press (US). Strange Beach was PBS Special Commendation and winner of an Eric Gregory Award.

Joelle Taylor is the author of 4 collections of poetry. Her collection C+NTO & Othered Poems won the 2021 T.S Eliot Prize, and the 2022 Polari Book Prize for LGBT authors. C+NTO is currently being adapted for theatre with a view to touring. She is a co- curator and host of Out-Spoken Live at the Southbank Centre, and tours her work nationally and internationally in a diverse range of venues, from Australia to Brazil. She is also a Poetry Fellow of University of East Anglia and the curator of the Koestler Awards 2023. She has judged several poetry and literary prizes including Jerwood Fellowship, the Forward Prize, and the Ondaatje Prize. Her novel of interconnecting stories The Night Alphabet was published by Riverrun in 2024. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and the 2022 Saboteur Spoken Word Artist of the Year. Her most recent collection, Maryville, was published by Bloomsbury in November 2025.

Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist and publisher. His third collection, Heritage Aesthetics published with Granta Poetry in 2022, won the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2023 and was shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award. It was listed as one of New Statesman’s top books of 2022. His second collection, After the Formalities published with Penned in the Margins, is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the 2019 T.S. Eliot Prize along with the 2021 Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections. It was also a Telegraph and Guardian poetry book of the year. In 2020 he published How To Write It with Merky Books; a practical guide fused with tips and memoir looking at the politics of writing as well as the craft of poetry and fiction along with the wider publishing industry. Anthony is artistic director of Out-Spoken, a monthly poetry and music night held at London’s Southbank Centre, and publisher of Out-Spoken Press. He is the editor-in-chief of Propel Magazine, an online literary journal featuring the work of poets yet to publish a first collection and the founder and curator of WriteBack, a quarterly literary series held at the British Library In 2019 he was made an honorary fellow at the University of Roehampton. In 2023 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.