An online workshop exploring the strengths and nuances of written and spoken word poems.
Join us to explore how to:
- Capture jarring moments in everyday settings poetically
- Use rhythm, pauses, inflexion and stress to shape meaning
- Enrich poems with linguistic influences and patterns
Also find out about on our 2026 poetry competition (closing date: Friday 26 June)
Facilitator: Dennis Johnstone, award winner of the 2025 Black in White Poetry Competition Workplace Category.
Dennis is a multi-award-winning poet and healthcare support worker whose poems have been published in Black in White: White Face, Foreign Hands and More Than Words: An Anthology of Winning and Commended Poems (2025).
His work draws on close observation of work, healthcare, domestic life, and the natural world, exploring how ordinary situations carry ethical weight, political consequence, and philosophical tension. He tends toward a pared-back style — attentive to structure, cadence, and restraint — using concrete situations as a means of inquiry rather than overt exposition.
He has published poems on his long-running blog, stoneheadcroft.com, since the 1990s.
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£5.00 Registration Fee.