One precious ticket left for Wednesday! Who will grab it first?!

Tomorrow in London - it would be lovely to see you

@modronmagazine.bsky.social Modron Magazine Ecopoetry featuring in London next Tues 14th! If you think you miss live poetry - here it is! @tazrahman.bsky.social @zoebrigley.bsky.social

Only a couple of places left for next Wed!

Poems to Love, Sparks of Monthly Inspiration: 5 May, 2 June, 7 July 2026 Top up your poetry joy each month! Short, affordable monthly reading & writing. … pure poetry joy which feels like an antidote to the horrors of the news. www.cathdrake.com

Why write in poetic forms? Because form activates your poetry... helps you be succinct, enhance the music, dexterity. Coming up soon on Cath Drake’s The Verandah – the ghazal with Mona Arshi, the pantoum with David Morley, sonnets with Hannah Lowe. Three top teachers and poets! www.cathdrake.com

‘I love the ghazal as liberates the senses like no other poetic form. I haven’t taught a ghazal class for a long time and so I’m excited about teaching this one as part of Cath Drake’s The Verandah’ series of expertly curated workshops.’ Mona Arshi - The Modern Ghazal 15/4/26 www.cathdrake.com

Join sought after teacher David Morley for an immersive workshop on the pantoum, one of poetry’s most haunting and versatile forms. David will offer a unique visual map of the form and experiments with extended pantoums. @carcanet.bsky.social @profdavidmorley.bsky.social www.cathdrake.com 11 May

Here’s a poem for these times – everywhere feels like ‘a struck match’ – Mona Arshi’s wonderful ghazal in ‘Mouth’ a @poetrysociety.org.uk Choice @penguinukbooks.bsky.social And she’s teaching an exclusive ghazal workshop for The Verandah 15/4 www.cathdrake.com

Here’s a poem for these times – everywhere feels like ‘a struck match’ – Mona Arshi’s wonderful ghazal in ‘Mouth’ a @poetrysociety.org.uk Choice @penguinukbooks.bsky.social And she’s teaching an exclusive ghazal workshop for The Verandah 15/4 www.cathdrake.com

Join us in half an hour - one more ticket just released!

One ticket left for Monday's workshop - join us to have fun messing about with poems and learn a lot about editing! Craft & Choice in Revision, Poetry Workshop with Cath Drake 2/3/26 www.cathdrake.com

Wednesday 25/2! See nature and landscape differently. Only 3 tickets left to view nature and landscape from both hemispheres led by one of Australia's best loved poets and teachers, Judith Beveridge @giramondo Close readings, discussion and writing www.cathdrake.com

Expert guidance on one of the most musical, one of the oldest and most widely used poetic forms, the ghazal. Exclusive to The Verandah!

Not many tickets left - this starts on Wed 25th next week! See nature and landscape from unique perspectives... familiar and unfamiliar ... so useful in seeing things afresh

Rather than a single emotional trajectory of mourning and absence, loss is often complex, ongoing, unresolved. Explore poetic approaches to the contemporary elegy in Reimagining the Elegy with Denise Saul @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social 30/3/26 www.cathdrake.com

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A rare chance to work with Mona Arshi to explore one of the oldest & most widely used poetic forms, the ghazal. What are the challenges for the modern poet writing in this musical form? The Modern Ghazal with Mona Arshi 15/4/26 www.cathdrake.com

Rather than a single emotional trajectory of mourning and absence, loss is often complex, ongoing, unresolved. Explore poetic approaches to the contemporary elegy in Reimagining the Elegy with Denise Saul @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social 30/3/26 www.cathdrake.com

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How do we finish our poems to make good poems even better? Join this small group with fun practical exercises to consider the power of lineation (line breaks), word choice and register. www.cathdrake.com Craft & Choice in Revision, Poetry Workshop with Cath Drake 2/3/26

V exciting, top Aussie poet Judith Beveridge @giramondobooks.bsky.social curates a bespoke 2-part workshop for The Verandah exploring how poets write about landscapes in UK and Aust - the ‘geography of the mind’. As someone who’s lived in both hemispheres, it's v illuminating! www.cathdrake.com

There's now a ticket available for tomorrow's 'Dot. Dash – Go!' Fundamental foundations and flights of experimentation in punctuation for practicing poets. Punctuation for Poets with @betarish.bsky.social Rishi Dastidar 29/1/25 cathdrake.com

You can still join us tomorrow (and for the last 3 sessions) - gift yourself a Mindfulness & Poetry Uplift!

Only 2 tickets left for Monday when The Verandah’s exciting 2026 programme of professional development for poets starts with Hannah Lowe exploring her passion for the Spanish glosa poetic form … then starting Tues 20th the rejuvenating #Mindfulness & #Poetry Uplift over 4 weeks www.cathdrake.com

‘It is so special how you combine poetry, meditation and writing, and so insightfully. My cup feels full after your sessions!’ Ellie Mindfulness & Poetry Uplift starts this Tues, 4 weeks of refreshment... early mornings in the UK, evening/arvo in Australia www.cathdrake.com

Only 2 tickets left for Monday when The Verandah’s exciting 2026 programme of professional development for poets starts with Hannah Lowe exploring her passion for the Spanish glosa poetic form … then starting Tues 20th the rejuvenating #Mindfulness & #Poetry Uplift over 4 weeks www.cathdrake.com

More added to The Verandah’s new year poetry programme: #Mindfulness to refresh your #poetry & self, hannahlowe.bsky.social on the glosa, @betarish.bsky.social powers up punctuation, Judith Beveridge explores landscape poetry and also.. Denise Saul reinvents the elegy and Cath Drake on poem editing.

‘Writing a poem is a condition of meditation in which you cannot help but open yourself to something not yet in the room; it is a magnetising of something else, something more.’ Jane Hirshfield Mindfulness & Poetry Uplift: 4x Tuesdays from 20 Jan, a early morning refresh(UK time) www.cathdrake.com

Nurture yourself and your writing this new year! ‘It is so special how you combine poetry, meditation and writing, and so insightfully. My cup feels full after your sessions!’ Ellie 4x Tuesdays from 20 Jan, a early morning refresh UK time buytickets.at/cathdrakesth...

Fill your cup in the new year with Mindfulness & Poetry Uplift for clarity, imagination, focus, compassion for your self and your writing…4x Tuesdays from 20 Jan, a early morning refresh for your self and your writing in the UK buytickets.at/cathdrakesth...

What’s that in your poetic Santa bag? A bundle of top quality poetry workshops to help make your poems sparkle from The Verandah, of course… there are also gift vouchers which you can use all year too… best wishes all! www.cathdrake.com www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...

Power up your professional poetic development! Our new year events include brilliant poet Hannah Lowe @hannahlowe.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social sharing her passion for the glosa, a Spanish form that invites deep listening, echo and transformation. Create your own glosa! www.cathdrake.com

For Xmas, consider buying poets you love (or yourself!) fabu poetry workshops in the new year: mindfulness to refresh your poetry &self, Hannah Lower, Rishi Dastidar, Judith Beveridge and more! Vouchers (link to the store below) & booking links: www.cathdrake.com www.tickettailor.com/.../cathdrak...

The Verandah’s new year poetry programme brims with inspiration: mindfulness to refresh your poetry & self, @hannahlowe.bsky.social passion for a Spanish poetic form, @betarish.bsky.social powering up punctuation for poets, Judith Beveridge on landscape poetry across hemispheres www.cathdrake.com

Tuesday - still a very small number of tickets left!

‘Nature is awe-inspiring, and when we stop to listen, to really look and to feel, it can be calming, or even transformational… For me the best nature poems are in dialogue with the world around us...’ Karen McCarthy Woolf www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...

Karen McCarthy Woolf @carcanet.bsky.social will explore some of today’s urgent and inspirational poems on nature, drawing on her recently co-edited anthology ‘Nature Matters’ @faberbooks.bsky.social Close reading, writing and discussion… not to be missed! www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...

I'm a huge admirer of @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social poetry and insight on nature poetry. T She’ll draw on her recently co-edited (with Mona Arshi) anthology ‘Nature Matters’ (Faber) www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...

I'm a huge admirer of @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social Karen's poetry and insight on nature poetry. This will be wonderful! She’ll draw on her recently co-edited (with Mona Arshi) anthology ‘Nature Matters’ (Faber) www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...

Karen McCarthy Woolf @carcanet.bsky.social will explore some of today’s urgent and inspirational poems on nature, drawing on her recently co-edited anthology ‘Nature Matters’ @faberbooks.bsky.social Close reading, writing and discussion… not to be missed! www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...

Still a few tickets left for this Sunday & 19th Oct - double sonnets masterclass! Also I've just added a couple tickets for those who can only make the first date.

A 'double masterclass' with double the wisdom from veteran sonneteer and Kings Gold Medal for Poetry recipient, George Szirtes to explore sonnets and sonnet sequences buytickets.at/cathdrakesth...

Still a few tickets left for this Sunday & 19th Oct - double sonnets masterclass! Also I've just added a couple tickets for those who can only make the first date.

'As a hand offers us a way to touch, hold and question the outer world, the lyric gives us a way to touch, hold and question our ideas, values, griefs, hopes, longings ... of the inner world' Jane Hirshfield Explore lyric poetry... www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...

Explore lyric poetry with brilliant nature poet, recently shortlisted for the Laurel Prize and one of Australia’s best poetry teachers! Congratulations Judith! www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...

Only two tickets left for Thursday's fab masterclass with this fabulous dynamic duo from Australia! Professional development for poets with the best teachers...

Thrilled for one of our tutors leading the next poetry masterclass on The Verandah who just won a major prize… best poetry book AND book of the year overall at the 2025 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards! Many congrats Alan Fyfe. 11th Sept! www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...

Not many tickets left! Share @Malikabooker's passion for ritual and write your own poems from the experience of ritual www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...

Poetic inspiration with two top Aussie poets, Lucy Dougan ‪@giramondobooks.bsky.social‬ & Alan Fyfe exploring imaginative selves & their passion for two great poets, with some writing exercises to take your poems in fresh directions too! www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...