The Poetry School will be launching its spring programme of courses and workshops with a reading at the Tea House theatre in Vauxhall Walk, London, on Thursday 14 January from 6.30pm. Those reading will be spring term tutors Rishi Dastidar, who is teaching an online poetry and listening course called The Lyric iPod, and Tamar Yoseloff, regular tutor of the beginners Routes into Poetry course, and deviser of some forthcoming poetry and visual art sessions.

There will also be readings by students from last term's Winning Ways to Make the Shortlist course, which was led by Saradha Soobrayen. Some students will be reading in public for the first time. Entrance is free.

Spring courses at the Poetry School in London include Wayne Holloway-Smith’s The Poem as Party Guest, to render your writing as charming and alluring as possible; Catherine Smith's Trust the Image course and Tim Dooley's Defining a Style, to expand confidence in your poetic craft; and The New Concrete: Visual Poetry, Chris McCabe and Victoria Bean's interactive guide to the art of visual poetry.

In Manchester Saturday Sessions with Ann and Peter Sansom will bring you three monthly workshops of feedback, exercises, writing and discussion to make a genuine difference to your poetry.

In Bristol Fiona Hamilton will be running Poetry Studio, a five-session course for anyone wishing to play and experiment with poetic forms, styles and genres, opening up ideas of what poetry is.

In Exeter Jennie Osborne will be returning with a five-week course, Voice of the Earth, encouraging writers to engage with marginalised peoples, endangered species and threatened environments.

The Poetry School’s online courses include  Melissa Lee-Houghton’s Long Poems & Invocations: Making the Measure Work For You, a 20-week course to give your own long poems and learning time to develop. Shazea Quraishi's Hearing Voices: World Poetry in Translation will look closely at work not originally in written in English, and Harry Giles will be actively encouraging students to "write against English" in his Dialects, Conlangs and New Vocabularies course.

Holly Hopkins' A Life on the Edge: Hinterlands and Homelands will be looking at those places we grew up and made our homes, the small towns, hinterlands and no-places on the edge of the ordinary. Using Philip Levine's poem as a starting point, Kim Moore's course What Work Is will investigate approaches to writing about work.

Steve Ely will be seeing what contemporary poets can get from an enduring text in The Word Made Fresh' - Restoring the Bible to English Poetry, and, Kathryn Maris will present a genre-bending course, Fragments, from the Thought to the Page, which will suggest new ways of observing yourself and the world, and communicating those observations. An online feedback course with Jonathan Edwards will offer advice and suggestions on your redrafting process.

You can check out the availability of all the Poetry School’s courses and workshops here