Do you have a story to tell?
What could you learn from the story-tellers of the past?
Want to try something a little more...epic?
 
Learn the art of poetic storytelling from some of the greatest narrative poems of all time: Beowulf, Paradise Lost, The Kalevala, The Raven, Endymion, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and more. Discover core principles of narrative and how to apply them to your own modern writing. See what distinguishes a poem’s narrative from a prose narrative, explore framing and structuring devices, use personas and dialogue, and try episodic writing. This course encourages you to flex your imagination and express yourself; tell your own stories or adapt old stories in new and exciting ways!
 
Learn in your own time with this 5-part downloadable writing course. Each lesson contains a written lecture on a different aspect of narrative poetry with poems and extracts to inspire you, as well as exercises to put it all into practice and to get you writing something epic. 
 
Verse Epic: The Art of Narrative Poetry was originally run by The Poetry School in Summer 2023.