Poetry Writing: Creating & Forming
Poetry
I want to write about something but I don’t know how to begin…
This poem feels stuck…
How can I make this poem better?
In this poetry writing course, students will explore fresh ways into beginning new poems and develop skills in refining works-in-progress.
During classes, we will focus on elements crucial to the poem including voice, image, the line, rhythm. This will be done through a combination of generative writing exercises that you can take home together with a workshop discussion. The workshop will provide you with insightful and constructive feedback on how to develop your poem beyond the classroom.
There will be no session 13 May.
About the Tutor
Stephen de Búrca is a writer and workshop facilitator from Galway. He completed a doctorate, funded by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council, at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast (2025) and an MFA at the University of Florida (2020). He was selected for the inaugural Poetry Ireland Gerald Dawe Poetry Bursary (2026), for Poetry Ireland Introductions (2023), and an Arts Council Agility Award (2023 and 2022).
Stephen’s work has featured in Poetry Ireland Review, PN Review, Banshee, Propel Magazine, Abridged, and elsewhere.
His debut poetry collection, Atlantic Fret, is forthcoming with The Gallery Press in 2026.
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