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 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. Verse Epic encourages you to flex your imagination and express yourself; tell your own stories or adapt old stories in new and exciting ways.
 
Each of the 5 lessons in this course 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. Write something epic. 
 
Verse Epic: The Art of Narrative Poetry was originally run by The Poetry School in 2023.