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
Only a few tickets left!
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
Only 2 tickets left!
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
last ticket for Monday!
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
thanks so much for likes and reposts @betarish.bsky.social @christianpaulkusch.com @edwardleepoetry.bsky.social Cathx
looks wonderful Jane - many congrats
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)
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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
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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
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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!
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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
