Sunday 6 August 2023

Update: workshops, in-person and Zoom

We are trialling in-person workshops again. 

However, we have not settled on regular dates and a regular venue again yet. 

We will update if in-person workshops become more predictable.

Meanwhile, we will also continue to hold workshops on Zoom, at least until the spring of 2024 and perhaps longer.

For more details please contact us to be put on our mailing list (see our profile for the email address).

Saturday 23 October 2021

Continuing workshop sessions on Zoom for now

Our in-person workshops are still suspended until further notice, but we are maintaining regular bi-monthly Zoom sessions. 

If you want to know more about this, please contact us through our website:
https://backroompoets.weebly.com/

Wednesday 15 April 2020

Back Room Poets during the COVID crisis

While our regular workshops are suspended, we are trying to maintain poem sharing and feedback by email and Zoom sessions.
If you want to know more about this, please contact us through our website:
https://backroompoets.weebly.com/

Friday 4 October 2019

Philip Gross: Reading and Workshop, Saturday 12 October

In the series POEMS IN THE QUAKER MEETING HOUSE
at 43 St Giles  Oxford

Philip Gross and Lesley Saunders will read from their book A PART OF THE MAIN: A CONVERSATION (Mulfran, 2019), a dialogic poem, even an improvisation, born of the difficult feelings and public discord arising from the events of 2016.
Philip is a Quaker as well as a T.S.Eliot prize winner and author of 20 collections of poems.
Lesley is author of several books of poetry, most recently Nominy-Dominy  (Two Rivers Press, 2018). She is a creative collaborator with many other ‘makers’ of  different art forms.
Lesley and Philip first met through a collaborative poetry venture A Game of Consequences in which 26 poets were invited to share their thoughts and feelings about living in a nuclear age.

This reading will be at 6.30 for 7pm till 9pm on Sat. October 12th
For the reading: free admission +  a collection (for the Quaker Meeting House)  + refreshments


On the afternoon of the same day:
Back Room Poets present a poetry workshop with Philip Gross:

Renga: When poetry grows in the spaces between us

The workshop will explore collaboration in poetry through linked verses in the spirit of haiku.

Saturday 12 October, 2019, 2.30-5.00pm
Friends Meeting House, 43 St Giles,
Oxford, OX1 3LW

For more details on the workshop and how to sign up, please go to the Events page of our website.

Sunday 29 September 2019

Poetry Reading: Truth or truths


On the evening of Sunday 6 October, we are hosting an event at which local poets have been invited to read poems on the National Poetry Day subject of Truth or a truth. 
There will also be an open mic section and a writing challenge with prompts. 
Entry is free.
Some refreshments will be available. 
St. Hilda's College has kindly allowed us to use one of their rooms and the venue will be signed from the college entrance.
Doors open at 6pm.

Wednesday 22 August 2018

Infinite Forms

For this year's National Poetry Day, which is has the theme of 'Change', Back Room Poets are hosting this event together with the Oxford University Natural History Museum

The phrase 'Infinite Forms' was used by Darwin to express the endless change that natural selection generates among living organisms. Poets from Oxford and surrounding areas will read recent work inspired by the museum's collections, exhibitions and research. Readings will be followed by an open mic session for which you can sign up on the door. 

All welcome, but if  you would like to read in the main section, rather than the open mic, please contact us through our website and submit your poem in advance by 29 September, 12 noon.

Details for the reading:
Thu, October 4, 2018, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PW



Reading with Jane Griffiths



A poetry reading featuring  Jane Griffiths  

With Back Room Poets members Rip Bulkeley, David Burridge, Lou Hough, Jenyth Worsley,
and also  with Alice Willington
MC: Louise Larchbourne

Music by : Julia Hollander and Peter McMullin

At the
Vaults and Garden Cafe
University Church of St Mary the Virgin
(entrance from Radcliffe Square)
1 Radcliffe Square, University Church, Oxford OX1 4AH

Friday 28 September, 2018
7:30 pm

Entrance: £6
BRP Members & concessions £ 4