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Cath Drake
@cathdrake.bsky.social
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writer, poet, facilitator, mindfulness teacher
Find inspiration on The Verandah here: https://www.cathdrake.com/
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Cath Drake @cathdrake.bsky.social · 4d
The Verandah’s new year poetry programme brims with inspiration: mindfulness to refresh your poetry & self, @hannahlowe.bsky.social passion for a Spanish poetic form, @betarish.bsky.social powering up punctuation for poets, Judith Beveridge on landscape poetry across hemispheres www.cathdrake.com
Cath Drake's The Verandah
Cath Drake's The Verandah – Cath Drake's The Verandah Welcome!  Join quality poetry masterclasses, writing and mindfulness workshops with the best teachers...
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Power up your professional poetic development! Our new year events include brilliant poet Hannah Lowe @hannahlowe.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social sharing her passion for the glosa, a Spanish form that invites deep listening, echo and transformation. Create your own glosa! www.cathdrake.com
Cath Drake's The Verandah
Cath Drake's The Verandah – Cath Drake's The Verandah Welcome!  Join quality poetry masterclasses, writing and mindfulness workshops with the best teachers...
www.cathdrake.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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For Xmas, consider buying poets you love (or yourself!) fabu poetry workshops in the new year: mindfulness to refresh your poetry &self, Hannah Lower, Rishi Dastidar, Judith Beveridge and more! Vouchers (link to the store below) & booking links: www.cathdrake.com www.tickettailor.com/.../cathdrak...
Cath Drake's The Verandah
Cath Drake's The Verandah – Cath Drake's The Verandah Welcome!  Join quality poetry masterclasses, writing and mindfulness workshops with the best teachers...
www.cathdrake.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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The Verandah’s new year poetry programme brims with inspiration: mindfulness to refresh your poetry & self, @hannahlowe.bsky.social passion for a Spanish poetic form, @betarish.bsky.social powering up punctuation for poets, Judith Beveridge on landscape poetry across hemispheres www.cathdrake.com
Cath Drake's The Verandah
Cath Drake's The Verandah – Cath Drake's The Verandah Welcome!  Join quality poetry masterclasses, writing and mindfulness workshops with the best teachers...
www.cathdrake.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Tuesday - still a very small number of tickets left!
December 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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‘Nature is awe-inspiring, and when we stop to listen, to really look and to feel, it can be calming, or even transformational… For me the best nature poems are in dialogue with the world around us...’ Karen McCarthy Woolf
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Buy tickets – Writing Vital Nature Poems with Karen McCarthy Woolf 9/12/25 – Zoom
Writing Vital Nature Poems with Karen McCarthy Woolf 9/12/25 – Zoom, Tue 9 Dec 2025 - Karen McCarthy Woolf will explore some of today’s urgent and inspirational poems engaging with the natural world b...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Karen McCarthy Woolf @carcanet.bsky.social will explore some of today’s urgent and inspirational poems on nature, drawing on her recently co-edited anthology ‘Nature Matters’ @faberbooks.bsky.social Close reading, writing and discussion… not to be missed!

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Buy tickets – Writing Vital Nature Poems with Karen McCarthy Woolf 9/12/25 – Zoom
Writing Vital Nature Poems with Karen McCarthy Woolf 9/12/25 – Zoom, Tue 9 Dec 2025 - Karen McCarthy Woolf will explore some of today’s urgent and inspirational poems engaging with the natural world b...
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October 22, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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I'm a huge admirer of @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social poetry and insight on nature poetry. T
She’ll draw on her recently co-edited (with Mona Arshi) anthology ‘Nature Matters’ (Faber)

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Buy tickets – Writing Vital Nature Poems with Karen McCarthy Woolf 9/12/25 – Zoom
Writing Vital Nature Poems with Karen McCarthy Woolf 9/12/25 – Zoom, Tue 9 Dec 2025 - Karen McCarthy Woolf will explore some of today’s urgent and inspirational poems engaging with the natural world b...
www.tickettailor.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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I'm a huge admirer of @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social Karen's poetry and insight on nature poetry. This will be wonderful!
She’ll draw on her recently co-edited (with Mona Arshi) anthology ‘Nature Matters’ (Faber)

www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
Buy tickets – Writing Vital Nature Poems with Karen McCarthy Woolf 9/12/25 – Zoom
Writing Vital Nature Poems with Karen McCarthy Woolf 9/12/25 – Zoom, Tue 9 Dec 2025 - Karen McCarthy Woolf will explore some of today’s urgent and inspirational poems engaging with the natural world b...
www.tickettailor.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
cathdrake.bsky.social
Karen McCarthy Woolf @carcanet.bsky.social will explore some of today’s urgent and inspirational poems on nature, drawing on her recently co-edited anthology ‘Nature Matters’ @faberbooks.bsky.social Close reading, writing and discussion… not to be missed!

www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
Buy tickets – Writing Vital Nature Poems with Karen McCarthy Woolf 9/12/25 – Zoom
Writing Vital Nature Poems with Karen McCarthy Woolf 9/12/25 – Zoom, Tue 9 Dec 2025 - Karen McCarthy Woolf will explore some of today’s urgent and inspirational poems engaging with the natural world b...
www.tickettailor.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Still a few tickets left for this Sunday & 19th Oct - double sonnets masterclass!

Also I've just added a couple tickets for those who can only make the first date.
September 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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A 'double masterclass' with double the wisdom from veteran sonneteer and Kings Gold Medal for Poetry recipient, George Szirtes to explore sonnets and sonnet sequences buytickets.at/cathdrakesth...
Buy tickets – From Room to Tenement: The Sonnet & The Sonnet Sequence, George Szirtes 5/10/25 & 19/10/25 – Zoom
The sonnet seems to be a remarkably flexible form. What is the magic of it? The rules are simple enough: the sonnet is a poem o...
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July 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Still a few tickets left for this Sunday & 19th Oct - double sonnets masterclass!

Also I've just added a couple tickets for those who can only make the first date.
September 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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'As a hand offers us a way to touch, hold and question the outer world, the lyric gives us a way to touch, hold and question our ideas, values, griefs, hopes, longings ... of the inner world' Jane Hirshfield
Explore lyric poetry...
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Buy tickets – The Lyric, A Poetry Masterclass with Judith Beveridge 2/10/25 – Zoom
The Lyric, A Poetry Masterclass with Judith Beveridge 2/10/25 – Zoom, Thu 2 Oct 2025 - This workshop will explore how lyric poetry specifically, with its unique characteristics of brevity, musicality,...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Explore lyric poetry with brilliant nature poet, recently shortlisted for the Laurel Prize and one of Australia’s best poetry teachers! Congratulations Judith!
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September 22, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Only two tickets left for Thursday's fab masterclass with this fabulous dynamic duo from Australia! Professional development for poets with the best teachers...
September 9, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Thrilled for one of our tutors leading the next poetry masterclass on The Verandah who just won a major prize… best poetry book AND book of the year overall at the 2025 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards! Many congrats Alan Fyfe. 11th Sept!
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Buy tickets – A Supposed Person: The Making and Masking of Imaginative Selves, Lucy Dougan & Alan Fyfe 11/9/25 – Zoom
A Supposed Person: The Making and Masking of Imaginative Selves, Lucy Dougan & Alan Fyfe 11/9/25 – Zoom, Thu 11 Sep 2025 - In this poetry masterclass, Western Australian poets and scholars, Lucy Douga...
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September 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Not many tickets left! Share @Malikabooker's passion for ritual and write your own poems from the experience of ritual www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
Buy tickets – Writing into Ritual, A Poetry Workshop with Malika Booker 14/9/25 Sunday – Zoom
Writing into Ritual, A Poetry Workshop with Malika Booker 14/9/25 Sunday – Zoom, Sun 14 Sep 2025 - Ritual is what makes us human, to be able to make meaning beyond the here and now through the use our imagination. In that sense, the making of poetry is perhaps ritual in itself. Malika argues that ritual is part of the important and necessary work for writers and artists. The workshop...
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September 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Poetic inspiration with two top Aussie poets, Lucy Dougan ‪@giramondobooks.bsky.social‬ & Alan Fyfe
exploring imaginative selves & their passion for two great poets, with some writing exercises to take your poems in fresh directions too! www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
Buy tickets – A Supposed Person: The Making and Masking of Imaginative Selves, Lucy Dougan & Alan Fyfe 11/9/25 – Zoom
In this poetry masterclass, Western Australian poets and scholars, Lucy Dougan and Alan Fyfe explore masking and distancing, pe...
www.tickettailor.com
August 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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One of the most enjoyable and rewarding aspects of our professional development programme for practising poets is hosting those with in-depth knowledge to share their passions and research. Next is top Aussies, Lucy Dougan
@giramondobooks.bsky.social & Alan Fyfe www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
Buy tickets – A Supposed Person: The Making and Masking of Imaginative Selves, Lucy Dougan & Alan Fyfe 11/9/25 – Zoom
In this poetry masterclass, Western Australian poets and scholars, Lucy Dougan and Alan Fyfe explore masking and distancing, pe...
www.tickettailor.com
August 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Hurray! Fabulous poet
giramondobooks.bsky.social Giramondo Publishing @giramondobooks.bsky.social · Aug 4
Congratulations to Judith Beveridge, shortlisted for The Laurel Prize for her poetry collection Tintinnabulum! 🌿🎉

‘In my poetry, I have always tried to impart a sense of reverence for the natural world [and] … to use language as a mechanism for wonder, joy and revelation.’

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Tintinnabulum by Judith Beveridge shortlisted for The Laurel Prize 2025 | Giramondo Publishing
‘In my poetry, I have always tried to impart a sense of reverence for the natural world, to pay deep attention to it, to show interrelationships through sound, metaphor and simile, to open up spaces f...
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August 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Poetic inspiration with two top Aussie poets, Lucy Dougan ‪@giramondobooks.bsky.social‬ & Alan Fyfe
exploring imaginative selves & their passion for two great poets, with some writing exercises to take your poems in fresh directions too! www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
Buy tickets – A Supposed Person: The Making and Masking of Imaginative Selves, Lucy Dougan & Alan Fyfe 11/9/25 – Zoom
In this poetry masterclass, Western Australian poets and scholars, Lucy Dougan and Alan Fyfe explore masking and distancing, pe...
www.tickettailor.com
August 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
cathdrake.bsky.social
A 'double masterclass' with double the wisdom from veteran sonneteer and Kings Gold Medal for Poetry recipient, George Szirtes to explore sonnets and sonnet sequences buytickets.at/cathdrakesth...
Buy tickets – From Room to Tenement: The Sonnet & The Sonnet Sequence, George Szirtes 5/10/25 & 19/10/25 – Zoom
The sonnet seems to be a remarkably flexible form. What is the magic of it? The rules are simple enough: the sonnet is a poem o...
buytickets.at
July 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Inspiration for your reading and writing with two top Aussie poets and teachers - explore the making of imaginative selves
www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
Buy tickets – A Supposed Person: The Making and Masking of Imaginative Selves, Lucy Dougan & Alan Fyfe 11/9/25 – Zoom
In this poetry masterclass, Western Australian poets and scholars, Lucy Dougan and Alan Fyfe explore masking and distancing, pe...
www.tickettailor.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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A new workshop developed with the most amazing Malika Booker to immerse in one of her writing passions.
www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
Buy tickets – Writing into Ritual, A Poetry Workshop with Malika Booker 14/9/25 Sunday – Zoom
Ritual is what makes us human, to be able to make meaning beyond the here and now through the use our imagination. In that sens...
www.tickettailor.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Mindfulness & Poetry joy next Thursday evening with the wonderful Women Poets Network @FoundationSwift www.tickettailor.com/events/rebec...
Select tickets – Poet to Poet workshop: The Practice of Mindfulness and its Impact on Poetry with Cath Drake – Zoom
We're delighted to welcome Cath Drake for our second Poet to Poet Workshop! Part of our By Poets, For Poets programme, created ...
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July 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM