Seminars, Workshops and Mentoring

Tamar has been teaching poetry and prose writing since 1997, working with both beginning and established writers. She has taught for academic institutions, such as Birkbeck, Middlesex University, Oxford University Department for Continuing Education and Oxford Brookes; and for adult educational organisations such as Spread the Word, Morley College and the Poetry School. She has run residential courses in Spain, Crete and France, and has led site-specific writing workshops in historical buildings and locations in London, including Sir John Soane’s Museum, Brompton Cemetery, the Old Operating Theatre, the Geffrye Museum and the Foundling Museum. She has also offered workshops and courses investigating the link between poetry and visual art in museums and galleries such as Kettle’s Yard and the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge, Tate Liverpool, MIMA, the Barbican, Hayward Gallery, the Royal Academy, Somerset House and the National Gallery.

She was a Visiting Guest Lecturer at Newcastle University from 2015–23, where she taught on the Newcastle/Poetry School MA in Writing Poetry.  

She currently works with poets in small seminar groups and through individual mentoring, and is available to give bespoke workshops tailored to the level and need of participants. She also runs an occasional course entitled Art to Poetry with the curator and art critic Paul Carey-Kent, which offers tours of contemporary London galleries with a view to writing new poems.

To contact her or to join her mailing list, please email tamar@tamaryoseloff.com.