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Find out more about Robert and Poetry Surgeries

This is a fantastic opportunity to discuss your work one-to-one with Robert Peake, a poet with an international perspective. Robert takes a friendly and sincere approach not only to the poems at hand, but to the development of a poet’s unique themes and approaches, and to strategies for sustaining a rewarding writing practice over time.
Robert Peake is a British-American poet born in California, now living in Hertfordshire. His collections include Human Shade (Lost Horse Press, USA, 2011), The Silence Teacher (Poetry Salzburg, Austria, 2013) and The Knowledge (Nine Arches Press, UK, 2015). Cyclone (Nine Arches Press) is out in July 2018. www.robertpeake.com
Robert runs one-hour sessions in a central location in St. Albans, near to parking, train, and bus links. The next one is Sunday 22 July and the venue will be confirmed when you book. 10.30am, 11.45am, 2pm and 3.15pm. £40 for Poetry Society members, £50 for non-members. Book online or call Paul McGrane on 020 7420 9881. Once your session is booked, you will be asked to send up to six poems, or 150 lines maximum, at least one week in advance, so that Robert has sufficient time to read your poems beforehand.
Poetry Society members should enter MEMBER1 in the Coupon code field to receive a £10 discount.