Upcoming courses
Correspondence Courses
Our online/ correspondence courses are 4, 6, 8 or 12 weeks in length. Each week you receive a tutorial (via email) with written material and links to audio and video recordings. There are various quick tasks within the email and then one main writing task for the week. You can send that work to Live Canon for detailed written feedback each week. There is also an online discussion group for the course, which you can dip into at any time, and discuss work with other participants and get their feedback. The courses are designed to be as flexible as possible around your other life commitments - you don't need to be available at any specific time in the week. Live Canon courses are taught by our director, Dr Helen Eastman, and our Senior Editor, Rebecca Hare.
Summer Term 2021
Writing Poetry for Children (6 weeks)
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Gathering and Editing Your Collection (6 weeks)
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Exploring metaphor (4 weeks)
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Ekphrastic poetry (6 weeks)
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Experimenting with Form (12 weeks)
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Autumn Term 2021
Promoting Your Poetry (4 weeks)
Playwriting for Poets (12 weeks)
Female war poets (8 weeks)
Writing the Classics – engaging with Greek and Roman myth and literature (12 weeks)
Writing science (12 weeks)
Spring Term 2022
Woman the Canon -18th/19th Century Female poets (12 weeks)
Found poems (6 weeks)
Political Poetry (12 weeks)
Gathering and Editing Your Collection (6 weeks)
The Historical Figure in Poetry (6 weeks)
Advanced Playwriting - for graduates of our playwriting course (12 weeks)
Summer Term 2022
Promoting Your Poetry (4 weeks)
Lyrics and Librettos (6 weeks)
Narrative poetry (6 weeks)
Playing with rhyme (4 weeks)
Lost Lionesses – 15th/16th Century Female poets (12 weeks)
Writing the Climate Crisis (12 weeks)