Poetry

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Title: ‘ Preparing your Poetry for Publication’

Date:   Sunday 22nd February 2026 

Time: 10am - 4pm

Workshop Title: Preparing your Poetry for Publication

Workshop Level: Intermediate/ Advanced

Workshop Summary: 

This one-day course will focus on editing techniques, approaches to literary journals and magazines, and techniques to shape poems into a pamphlet or collection.

Workshop Outline: 

Poets should be prepared to bring and share one poem from their pamphlet or collection in development, alongside a short (max. 100 word) blurb describing their work. As a group, we’ll offer feedback on the poem in question, explore a number of editing techniques for both individual and groupings of poems, and pointers towards building up a publication record.

Course Outcomes  

Participants will come away with a new sense of confidence and direction in their ability to edit and shape their work, and a personal plan for next steps towards publication.

Biography: 

Jessica Traynor is a poet, and poetry editor at Banshee. Her third collection Pit Lullabies (Bloodaxe, 2022) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, an Irish Times book of the year, a Guardian Best Read of 2022, and was shortlisted for the Yeats Society/ Irish Independent Poetry Prize. Awards include the Tundish Award from Field Day, and the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry. New Arcana(Bloodaxe Books) was published in 2025.

Eight participants (max) accepted. 

You can book your place by clicking on the link below.

Workshop fee €120 including lunch and refreshments.