Poetry: Out of Habit and into the Particular | with Jack Underwood
Monday 22/9/25 to Monday 10/11/25
Eight weekly sessions
6.30-8pm
Monday 22/9/25 to Monday 10/11/25
Eight weekly sessions
6.30-8pm
Monday 22/9/25 to Monday 10/11/25
Eight weekly sessions
6.30-8pm
Course description
As poets we can too easily fall into familiar habits and practices, often formed from confining, generalised expectations of what constitutes ‘good poetry’. Through creative exercises, close reading, lively discussion, and supportive, constructive workshopping, this dynamic eight-week course will not only deepen your sense of craft and voice, but help you return to the fundamentals of poetic thinking by recentring your practice around your own particular experiences, ideas, language and images, opening your work up to enlivening, inspiring possibilities and exploring approaches to writing and editing a poetry that is uniquely yours.
About the tutor
Jack Underwood is a poet, writer and critic. He is the 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 nonfiction, Not Even This, was published by Corsair in 2021. 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.