The Poetry Business Writing Days

'Ann and Peter Sansom are incomparably experienced and inspirational tutors with a brilliant repertoire of exercises' - The Poetry Trust

'The best poetry teachers in the world' - The Guardian

Next Writing Day: Saturday 21 August

Poetry Business Writing Days are open to all and held in Sheffield in the Conference Room at The Premier Inn (morning) and at our new offices in Bank Street Arts. The Premier Inn is on the corner of Angel Street and Bank Street (see map).

They run from 10:15 am to 4:00pm, with writing exercises in the morning and a critical workshop in the afternoon.

Please bring a poem (and ten copies) for the afternoon workshop – or better still write one up to discuss from the morning session.

Places cost £25 (£18 unwaged). Pay on the day – by cash or cheque.

(It is not essential, but it would help if you let us know should you plan to attend.)

If you have any questions, contact us here.

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Lunch Poems

Sheffield is not Manhattan. Except one Saturday each month.

“Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pondering more deeply has withdrawn to a darkened ware- or firehouse to limn his computed misunderstandings of the eternal questions of life, co-existence and depth, while never forgetting to eat Lunch his favorite meal. . .” – Frank O’Hara wrote this for the cover of his 1964 City Lights collection, Lunch Poems.

We’d very much like to feature your poems started on Writing Days in the morning session.

Send in examples, including a first draft if possible, however scrawly. We can scan them in. Let us know particularly if they were written up over the lunch break, and discussed in the afternoon workshop – and if they’ve since been published or won prizes. Though all they really need is to have been written at a Writing Day.