Writing poetry for healthcare professionals

COURSE OVERVIEW

Workshops

The course will consist of six 2-hour online workshops to be held on 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th November and 3rd and 10th December 2025 from 7-9pm.

The six workshops will be based on the following six themes: Care, Bodies, Health and illness, Happiness and Joy, Queerness, Class and Race.
This will be an opportunity for new, emerging and established poets working in healthcare to write, think about, and share poetry in a creative, inclusive and inspiring atmosphere.

We hope the workshops will boost your creativity, wellbeing and let you connect with like-minded participants. A participant from the January and February 2025 course left the following feedback:

“the workshops offered an oasis of creativity, reflection and fun in the middle of a busy working week, giving permission to stop, reflect and connect. Jemima’s encouragement (“don’t get it right, get it written”), and her skilled ability to create a ‘safe space’ very quickly to explore important and interesting themes through both reading and writing poetry left me feeling inspired, with wonderful new friends at the end of our six weeks. A beginner to the world of poetry, I also found it a powerful way of helping me make sense of personal and professional experiences and stories”.

The workshops will be limited to a maximum of 15 people.

Please note that there is a course fee of £150, payable before commencement of the course. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Please use PayPal to pay your fee.











FACILITATION

Course Tutor

The workshops will be led by Jemima Foxtrot, a writer, performer and theatre-maker from Yorkshire, living in Berlin. She has written and performed several critically acclaimed works for the stage including Melody, Above the Mealy-mouthed Sea, and Pleasure Incorporated with collaborator Lucy Allan and Rear View with I.O.U Theatre. She has published three collections of poetry All Damn Day (Burning Eye Books 2016), A New Game (Burning Eye Books 2022), and Treasure (Bad Betty Press 2024).