Getting Cosy with Poetry - West Bridgford Library - Adult Learning

Thu Nov 28 2024 at 10:00 am to Thu Dec 12 2024 at 12:00 pm UTC+00:00

West Bridgford Library | Nottingham

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Getting Cosy with Poetry - West Bridgford Library - Adult Learning
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Key details
  • Date: 28 November - 12 December 2024
  • Sessions: Thursdays: 10am - 12pm
  • No. sessions: 3
  • Venue: West Bridgford Library, Nottingham
  • For ages: 19+
  • Group size: 5 - 15
  • Cost: FREE - £21


About this course

As the blazing days of Autumn lead to the chill of approaching Winter, we reflect on the seasons: what it means in the natural world as it prepares to rest, and what it means to us. Especially when Christmas is just around the corner.

In this short 3-session course, we will take time out and use some famous (and not so famous) examples of seasonal poetry to get us writing our own poetry. This course aims to help you record what you notice and want to remember about this time.

The course is suitable for beginners, but those with some poetry experience are welcome also.

Course Summary

  • Using others’ poems as inspiration for your own
  • Following existing poems’ structures to build your own
  • Using images and memories to ignite ideas for poems
  • Using your five senses to write
  • Recognising the clues in the shape of a poem – thinking about poetic form

By the end of the course, you will:-

  • Demonstrate poetry skills by writing two seasonal haiku.
  • Demonstrate poetry skills by drafting a poem to share with the group.
  • Describe features of three poetic forms in class quiz.
  • Complete the reflective journal and identify next steps in poetry, creative writing or other learning

Suggested Reading for the course:-

  • Autumn – An Anthology for the Changing Seasons by Melissa Harrison (available through Inspire libraries)


Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will beoffered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which mayprevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our webpage for furtherinformation https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

  • Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING, AND
  • Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required). As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:


  • Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
  • Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
  • Greater London
  • Greater Manchester
  • Liverpool City Region
  • Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
  • Tees Valley
  • West of England
  • West Midlands
  • West Yorkshire


Any questions?

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

West Bridgford Library, Bridgford Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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