Poet, essayist, and editor Romalyn Ante is hosting an online poetry writing workshop to mark the end of the year.

There will be guided prompts, writing exercises, and discussions about poems throughout the session. Poems from Linda Gregg, Billy Collins, John Glenday, Jason Allen-Paisant, Tishani Doshi, and more will be used for inspiration.

Back by Popular Demand: A Year-End Poetry Workshop with Romalyn Ante – Endings & Beginnings

Due to the wonderful response from last year, we’re thrilled to offer a brand new version of our year-end poetry workshop!

Let’s close the year with creativity, reflection, and renewed inspiration. In this generative poetry workshop, led by award-winning poet Romalyn Ante, you will explore themes of endings, beginnings, and the quiet transitions in between.

Through guided prompts, writing exercises, and poem discussions, you’ll reflect on the past year and open yourself to the possibilities ahead.

You’ll write into the turning of the year—honouring what has passed and welcoming what’s to come.

You’ll read and be inspired by works from celebrated poets such as Linda Gregg, John Glenday, Jason Allen-Paisant, Tishani Doshi, and more. Themes of nature, memory, family, and seasonal change will inspire and challenge you.

This workshop is a gentle space to release, reconnect, and reimagine—through the healing and transformative power of poetry.

About the facilitator:

Romalyn Ante FRSL is a Filipino-born British poet, essayist, and editor. She was born and raised in Lipa, Philippines. In 2005, her mother – a nurse in the NHS – brought her and the whole family to the UK. Her debut collection, Antiemetic for Homesickness (Chatto, 2020), was shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. She is the co-founding editor of harana poetry, a magazine for poets who write in English as a second or parallel language. She was awarded the Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship in 2021-2022, sits on the editorial board for Poetry London magazine, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her new collection, AGIMAT (Chatto & Windus), is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Her debut novel, The Left-Behind Child, is forthcoming from Chatto/Penguin Random House in July 2026.

This is a recorded workshop