• Mindfulness & Poetry Uplift: Mindfulness reduces stress and improves well-being, clarity, focus and creativity. Find new ways into your writing as well an uplift for your day/week. ‘I accessed something different in my writing, more open, more wise and expansive.’  ** NAWE Member Discount: 20% off by using the code VERANDAH25

• Practising Poetic Metre: Poetic metre takes practise and hear it ring out. It’s also enjoyable, rewarding and a great skill to add to your poetic toolbox. Join this informal hour practicing metre with a small group.

• Poetry Masterclasses: Professional development with the best specialist teachers from both hemispheres, including TS Eliot Prize shortlisted Karen McCarthy Woolf on Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück, surprising ekphrasis with Tara Bergin, plus workshops from Malika Booker and Kings Gold Medal for Poetry 2024 winner George Szirtes.

• Also coming up… Nature workshops and The Climate of Change. Find fresh and inspiring perspectives on our connection with nature and the change we need in this ongoing environmental crisis. The Verandah also offers one-to-one editing/feedback sessions and monthly Small Group Poetry Feedback for those serious about honing their work (join the waiting list if they are sold out).

New events are posted on the website every month. Sign up to the newsletter to hear about them first. There are also gift vouchers for a special poet in your life.

About the facilitator: Australian Cath Drake is based in London. She was an award-winning environmental journalist and writer in Australia for a decade (and an environmental science graduate and tutor). Her poetry collection, The Shaking City (Seren Books), longlisted in the international Laurel Prize, highly commended in the UK Forward Prize, followed Sleeping with Rivers, Poetry Book Society Choice and winner of the Seren/Mslexia pamphlet prize. Other prizes include twice second place in the Ginkgo eco-poetry prize. She has been published widely in anthologies and literary journals internationally. Cath is also a mindfulness teacher and she hosts The Verandah, quality online poetry events.