Prose Poetry from Baudelaire to Beyond

Start date: 17 September 2025
Day: Wednesday
Course length: 6 Week Course
Time: 10:00 to 12:00
Folk House

Course code: BW06

Full fee: £129.00 | Over 65s: £116.10 | Benefit: £103.20

Tutor: Suzannah V Evans


Courses description

This creative writing course takes us to the heat of the prose poem, from its genesis in nineteenth-century French poetry to contemporary practitioners of the form. For who has not imagined ‘the miracle of a poetic prose, musical though rhythmless and rhymeless, flexible yet strong enough to identify with the lyrical impulses of the soul, the ebbs and flows of revery, the pangs of conscience?’, questions the French poet Charles Baudelaire (in Francis Scarfe’s translation). Through a range of texts and examples up to the present day, we will explore what makes prose poetry ‘miraculous’, with a different focus each week. We will experiment with writing our own miracles, so by the end of the course you will have your own short collection of prose poems, as well as a deeper understanding of this provocative form.

Student testimonials:

Great mix of reading, discussion and creating. Made my brain feel so alive!

The chance to read aloud, the creative writing element, the whole class discussions, the introduction to new poems and learning new biographical information about the poets.

It is a huge subject. Suzannah wisely chose a topic per week and covered it in depth giving out more information than we could use in the session. Great to take away and study further.

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