How to Deeply Analyse Poetry (and Make It Fun)

This in-depth poetry workshop is designed for anyone who has ever found poetry analysis intimidating, confusing, or overly academic. How to Deeply Analyse Poetry (and Make It Fun) offers a fresh, accessible approach to understanding poetry. One that deepens enjoyment rather than taking it away.

Participants will learn how to analyse poetry by exploring language, imagery, structure, sound, and form in a clear, engaging way. Through guided discussion, practical exercises, and real poem examples, you’ll discover how close reading can strengthen your own writing and sharpen your poetic instincts.

This workshop is ideal for poets, readers, students, educators, and creatives who want to feel more confident discussing poetry, understanding published work, or editing their own poems. No prior experience in poetry analysis is required, just curiosity and a willingness to look closely.

By the end of the session, you’ll leave with practical tools to analyse poems with clarity, insight, and enjoyment and a renewed sense of connection to poetry as a living, expressive art form.

Suitable for: beginners and experienced poets

Format: in-depth workshop with discussion and writing exercises