ABOUT THE TUTORS

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/

COURSE DELIVERY

Workshops and tutorials will be delivered via Zoom. You will have access to a dedicated classroom space on Padlet, where you will be able to access course materials and ask any questions. Workshops are recorded and the recordings will be made available to you, password-protected on our Vimeo, the day after each session. At the end of the course you will receive a handout collating the course materials, as well as links to the session recordings, to revisit in future.

Course delivery is wholly online. We welcome applications from students anywhere in the world, but applicants should note that all teaching is provided in evenings UK time.

For access purposes and to enable effective communication please note that, while you are not required to have your camera on at all times, we do request that your camera is on when you speak with tutors.