Welcome to Moor Poets
We're a community of friendly poets based in and around Dartmoor in Devon.
We aim to encourage, support and assist poets of all levels of writing experience in developing their poetry, and to share our enthusiasm for poetry with a wider circle.
We do this by offering a varied programme of workshops each year. These are in person or online and are led by guest poets as well as our own members.
We welcome new members, from writers tentatively stepping into poetry to poets exploring a more established poetic practice.
We aim to encourage, support and assist poets of all levels of writing experience in developing their poetry, and to share our enthusiasm for poetry with a wider circle.
We do this by offering a varied programme of workshops each year. These are in person or online and are led by guest poets as well as our own members.
We welcome new members, from writers tentatively stepping into poetry to poets exploring a more established poetic practice.
As well as running poetry workshops, we organise readings by Moor Poets writers and publish anthologies of our poetry. We have four anthologies ... browse our Books page.
On the Moor Poets website you'll find our events, publications plus books and poems by our individual members. There's also some information about other poetry events. You can find us on Facebook too.
Our recent poetry workshops have explored eco-poetry, songwriting, poetry and the sea, poetic form, poetry as resistance, place and presence, time, and presentation skills.
Our workshop leaders have included the poets: Roselle Angwin, Fiona Benson, Sue Boyle, Andy Brown, Caroline Carver, Alyson Hallett, Rosie Jackson, Katrina Naomi, Sue Proffitt, Julie-ann Rowell, Lawrence Sail, Penelope Shuttle, Greta Stoddart, Susan Taylor, Simon Williams and Tamar Yoseloff.
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Saturday 19th September 2026
11:00 - 15:00 Ashburton A workshop led by poet Sue Proffitt to inspire us to take a risk, free it up... If you're not taking risks in your poetry, what are you doing? How much are you pushing your own poetry practice? In this workshop we'll explore ways of freeing up our poems, playing with different ways in and out of them, stretching, curving, splicing, condensing. We'll leave with new ideas, energised poems, and new ways of creating. For more information and how to book please go to our Workshop & Events page. |
Thursday October 8 2026
Moor Poets presents an Open Mic evening at Ashburton Arts Centre with special guest reader, award-winning poet, Jean Sprackland. For more information, Jean's biography and how to reserve an open mic slot please go to Our Workshops and Events page here. |
