


The Salon: Developing Your Poems
Join Richard Scott and Julia Copus for this twelve-week intermediate course – find new paths for your work, broaden your understanding of the craft and meet a group of supportive, like-minded poets.
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- Mondays, 19.00–21.00
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£200 / month for 2 months and a £295.00 deposit
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Deepen your knowledge and create new work
At the heart of this lively and energetic course is the writing and sharing of new work. In weekly two-hour sessions, you’ll be creatively challenged to break free of your comfort zones.
You will be writing new poems each week with the expectation that you will broaden your techniques and intensify your poetic ambitions. Through the close reading and discussion of key texts, you’ll also be pushed towards a more rewarding way of reading and engaging with classic modern poetry.


Is this the right course for me?
This is an intermediate poetry course, which will work best for students who have already begun writing poetry, or who work professionally in another writing field and are looking to turn their hand to poetry.
The Faber Academy Scholarship Programme
There are scholarship places available on this course for writers who otherwise could not afford to attend. We particularly welcome applications from writers of colour, disabled writers and LGBTQ+ writers.
To apply, please submit three poems, along with your covering letter (both as Word docs or PDFs) to academy@faber.co.uk, with the subject line ‘Scholarship Application: The Salon – April 2025’. The full terms and conditions and more information about our scholarship programme can be found below.
The deadline for applications is 14 April 2025 at 23:59.
The course will consist of ten two-hour classes, held via Zoom and supported on Faber Academy's bespoke Online Classroom. Each class will include fifteen minutes of guided writing time with prompts, or alternatively, a take-home writing exercise.
During workshop sessions, you'll be discussing poetry, unearthing craft and technique relevant to your writing practice and learning what makes a poem work.
As part of the course, you’ll also receive two thirty-minute tutorials, and two set texts will be discussed during classes, with guest sessions led by both of the authors.
There'll also be time for a couple of student-led discussions and several self-guided writing exercises and a celebratory class poetry reading.

Beyond amazing. The quality of the teaching was outstanding.


The course will take place on Zoom on Monday evenings, 7–9 p.m.

Course Programme
Session 1
Monday 28 April, 19.00–21.00
Language with Richard...
Session 2
5 May, 19.00–21.00
Walking the Line with Julia...
Session 3
12 May, 19.00–21.00
Drafting and Editing with Richard...
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Richard Scott
Richard Scott was born in London in 1981. His pamphlet Wound (Rialto) won the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2016 and his poem...
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Julia Copus
Julia Copus has published four collections of poetry, the latest of which, Girlhood (Faber 2019), was winner of America’s inaugural Derek Walcott Prize for best...
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