Playback Library
If you’re unable to join in real time, many of our online workshops and courses are available as Playback recording-only options. With Playback registration you’ll receive all workshop or course materials together with a link to the password-protected recording of each session on our Vimeo.
Here you’ll find the full archive of our available Playback recordings, from nine-week Academy courses with tutors including Zaffar Kunial and Victoria Adukwei Bulley, to all of our four-week thematically-focused Hyperfocus courses, and recent and upcoming one-off Monthly Online Workshops.
Please note that while our Hyperfocus and Academy course Playbacks remain available for registration and indefinite access, Monthly Online Workshop Playbacks are available to view for a limited duration of three weeks only from the date of the workshop.
** This listing is for access to the video recording of the workshop only. If you would like to register to attend the workshop on Saturday 12 September 2026, view the listing here: Online Workshop: Are you being serious? with Jack Underwood
If you are unable to attend the online workshop on the day, we’re pleased to make available a playback link to the video recording of the session for standalone purchase.
Playback Access
Once you have purchased the Playback, you will receive a link to a document download which includes the link and password for the recording together with the materials from the workshop.
Please note that the password-protected recording will be available to watch for a limited duration of three weeks from the date of the workshop. After this date the video will no longer be available to access.
Once you purchase this item, and after the workshop has taken place, you will be emailed (from press@outspokenpress.com) a link and password to the video recording of the workshop on our Vimeo page. This password-protected video will remain available for viewing for a limited duration of three weeks from the date of the workshop. After this date it will no longer be accessible.
'Are you being serious?' with Jack Underwood
This workshop will examine how the poem can be space of tonal complexity, contradiction or clarity. We will look at humour in poetry, and how it often arises out of embarrassment, shame or confrontations with darkness. We will look at how poems can shift from the surreal or absurd to the serious, sad or sublime, and also the value of self-amusement and play as an interrogative stance, that can reveal deeper, personal or philosophical truths. We will also look at poems written without irony or polytonality, that are instead committed to their gravity throughout. By exploring this terrain through timed exercises, close reading and discussion, this workshop will deepen your understanding of complex tonal features like subtext, irony, contiguity, connotation, and humour, and help you to develop your own poetic voice through practical exercises aimed at providing you with new techniques and strands to your work.
Duration 3 hours
** This listing is for access to the video recording of the workshop only. If you would like to register to attend the workshop on Saturday 5 December 2026, view the listing here: Online Workshop: Run, Don't Walk from the Monstrous Cute! with Fran Lock
If you are unable to attend the online workshop on the day, we’re pleased to make available a playback link to the video recording of the session for standalone purchase.
Purchase
Once you have purchased the Playback, you will receive a link to a document download which includes the link and password for the recording together with the materials from the workshop.
Please note that the password-protected recording will be available to watch for a limited duration of three weeks from the date of the workshop. After this date the video will no longer be available to access.
Once you purchase this item, and after the workshop has taken place, you will be emailed (from press@outspokenpress.com) a link and password to the video recording of the workshop on our Vimeo page. This password-protected video will remain available for viewing for a limited duration of three weeks from the date of the workshop. After this date it will no longer be accessible.
'Run, Don't Walk from the Monstrous Cute!' with Fran Lock
In this workshop session we'll be checking in with a poetics of kitsch ephemera and schlocky body horror, as we brave the squishy, pinkly-terrifying realm of the "monstrous cute". Here, we will explore how poets as diverse as Dorothy Molloy, Aase Berg, Chelsey Minnis, Cathy Park-Hong, and Harry Josephine Giles deploy cuteness towards ambivalent and grotesque ends, speaking back to notions of genre, gender, class and kind. We will use the work of these poets as a spur to our own monstrous high-camp inventions. Saturated palettes at the ready! Swap subtly for sequins! And brace for impact.
Duration 3 hours
** This listing is for access to the video recording of the workshop only. If you would like to register to attend the workshop on Saturday 14 November 2026, view the listing here: Online Workshop: The Body of Work with Victoria Adukwei Bulley
If you are unable to attend the online workshop on the day, we’re pleased to make available a playback link to the video recording of the session for standalone purchase.
Playback Access
Once you have purchased the Playback, you will receive a link to a document download which includes the link and password for the recording together with the materials from the workshop.
Please note that the password-protected recording will be available to watch for a limited duration of three weeks from the date of the workshop. After this date the video will no longer be available to access.
Once you purchase this item, and after the workshop has taken place, you will be emailed (from press@outspokenpress.com) a link and password to the video recording of the workshop on our Vimeo page. This password-protected video will remain available for viewing for a limited duration of three weeks from the date of the workshop. After this date it will no longer be accessible.
The Body of Work with Victoria Adukwei Bulley
How can poems be fractals - capable of embodying both part and whole? What threads can link even the most disparate of ideas together across a book? Thinking with the format of pamphlet or collection in mind, this session explores how we can experiment with the arrangement of the poems that we already have, as well as how to write into the spaces of poems that are still to come.
Duration 3 hours
** This listing is for access to the video recording of the workshop only. If you would like to register to attend the workshop on Saturday 10 October 2026, view the listing here: Online Workshop: The Myth Maker: Reimagining History, Memory and the Self in Poetry. with Nick Makoha
If you are unable to attend the online workshop on the day, we’re pleased to make available a playback link to the video recording of the session for standalone purchase.
Playback Access
Once you have purchased the Playback, you will receive a link to a document download which includes the link and password for the recording together with the materials from the workshop.
Please note that the password-protected recording will be available to watch for a limited duration of three weeks from the date of the workshop. After this date the video will no longer be available to access.
Once you purchase this item, and after the workshop has taken place, you will be emailed (from press@outspokenpress.com) a link and password to the video recording of the workshop on our Vimeo page. This password-protected video will remain available for viewing for a limited duration of three weeks from the date of the workshop. After this date it will no longer be accessible.
‘The Myth Maker: Reimagining History, Memory and the Self in Poetry’ with Nick Makoha
This workshop explores how poets draw on myth, personal narrative, history, and cultural memory to create powerful and resonant work. Participants will engage with a range of texts, writing exercises, and discussions designed to help them develop their own myth-making practice and discover new ways of transforming lived experience into poetry.
Duration 3 hours
Duration: 4 weeks
Dates: 1–22 September 2026
Tutors: Pascale Petit, Tishani Doshi
Workshops: Tuesdays, 6–8pm UK (online)
PLAYBACK: RECORDING-ONLY ACCESS – with recording-only access you’ll receive links to the password-protected video recordings of each workshop by email the next day, together with all course materials.
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Duration: 4 weeks
Dates: 6–27 October 2026
Tutors: Rachael Allen, Lucy Mercer
Workshops: Tuesdays, 7–9pm UK (online)
PLAYBACK: RECORDING-ONLY ACCESS – with recording-only access you’ll receive links to the password-protected video recordings of each workshop by email the next day, together with all course materials.
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Duration: 4 weeks
Dates: 3–24 November 2026
Tutors: Anthony Joseph, Helen Mort
Workshops: Tuesdays, 7–9pm UK (online)
PLAYBACK: RECORDING-ONLY ACCESS – with recording-only access you’ll receive links to the password-protected video recordings of each workshop by email the next day, together with all course materials.
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6-27 JANUARY 2026
TUTORS: PASCALE PETIT, EMILY BERRY
WORKSHOPS: TUES 7-9PM UK
Consider the different ways poems can help get between the feelings of grief and loss and look at how to ensure a poem remains artful while also true to its emotional life and sensibility.
PLAYBACK: RECORDING-ONLY ACCESS – If you’re unable to attend the course, we are pleased to make available PLAYBACK Recording-Only access – with recording-only access you’ll receive links to the password-protected video recordings of each workshop by email the next day, together with all course materials.
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3–24 FEBRUARY 2026
TUTORS: CAROLINE BIRD, JACK UNDERWOOD
WORKSHOPS: TUES 7-9PM UK
How do you write about a problematic parent(s)? How best could you navigate a complex upbringing? How do you handle the sheer awe and panic of being a new parent? How do you write about the loss of a parent? In this second segment of Hyperfocus, join poets Caroline Bird and Jack Underwood as they look at ways we can write poems that draw from the multilayered experiences of having parents and being a parent.
PLAYBACK: RECORDING-ONLY ACCESS – If you’re unable to attend the course, we are pleased to make available PLAYBACK Recording-Only access – with recording-only access you’ll receive links to the password-protected video recordings of each workshop by email the next day, together with all course materials.
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3–24 MARCH 2026
TUTORS: KIM ADDONIZIO, OLUWASEUN OLAYIWOLA
WORKSHOPS: TUES 7-9PM UK
Love, desire, lust, eros and longing are all part of March’s Hyperfocus. Participants will be looking at what makes an erotic poem… erotic.
PLAYBACK: RECORDING-ONLY ACCESS – If you’re unable to attend the course, we are pleased to make available PLAYBACK Recording-Only access – with recording-only access you’ll receive links to the password-protected video recordings of each workshop by email the next day, together with all course materials.
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7–28 APRIL 2026
TUTORS: JOELLE TAYLOR, ANTHONY ANAXAGOROU
WORKSHOPS: TUES 7-9PM UK
Writing poems that talk truth to power or address the state of the nation can often be tricky to navigate. Either a poem is so direct it ends up feeling didactic or it's so subtle it doesn't have the push and bite it needs to make its case.
PLAYBACK: RECORDING-ONLY ACCESS – If you’re unable to attend the course, we are pleased to make available PLAYBACK Recording-Only access – with recording-only access you’ll receive links to the password-protected video recordings of each workshop by email the next day, together with all course materials.
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Duration: 9 × 2hr workshops
Join tutors Ella Frears, Jack Underwood and Anthony Anaxagorou for our 9-week online poetry course. Three tutors, 18 hours of excellent poetry teaching.
With Playback recording-only access you’ll receive links to the password-protected video recordings of each workshop (nine two-hour workshops, three taught by each tutor) together with all course materials.
Duration: 9 × 2hr workshops
Tutors: Malika Booker, Joelle Taylor and Pascale Petit.
Originally delivered in Summer 2025, with nine two-hour workshops (three from each tutor) covering subjects from ‘Mapping For Memories – Creating Narrative Poems’ to ‘Musicality and the Line’, ‘Writing the Self: Metaphor’ to ‘Poetry and the Visual Arts’, the Academy Plus course with Malika Booker, Joelle Taylor and Pascale Petit offers an exploration of craft and wealth of generative inspiration.
PLAYBACK: RECORDING-ONLY ACCESS – with recording-only access you’ll receive links to the password-protected video recordings of each workshop, together with over 150 pages of course materials.
Duration: 8 × 2hr workshops
The Out-Spoken Academy Creative Non-Fiction course offers the opportunity to learn from tutors who are both critically acclaimed writers and highly skilled educators. Join Amy Key and Jenn Ashworth for four two-hour workshops each, to develop your creative non-fiction practice.
PLAYBACK: RECORDING-ONLY ACCESS – with recording-only access you’ll receive links to the password-protected video recordings of each workshop, together with all course materials.
Duration: 12 × 2hr workshops
Our intensive online poetry course, with tutors Caroline Bird, Jack Underwood & Anthony Anaxagorou.
With Playback access, you’ll receive links to the password-protected video recordings of 12 two-hour workshops (each tutor teaching four workshops) together with all course materials.
Duration: 8 × 2hr workshops
Tutors: Joelle Taylor, Malika Booker
Originally delivered in January 2025, with 8 two-hour workshops, covering subjects from ‘Details, Imagery, Description, Deskwork- a process of making, gathering, carving, and discarding’ to ‘Sonnet and Ghazal, and modern variations of these forms’.
PLAYBACK: RECORDING-ONLY ACCESS – with recording-only access you’ll receive links to the password-protected video recordings of each workshop, together with all tutor course materials.