Cath Drake
@cathdrake.bsky.social
writer, poet, facilitator, mindfulness teacher
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Cath Drake
@cathdrake.bsky.social
· Oct 22
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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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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‘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
‘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
www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
Reposted by Cath Drake
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...
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
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...
www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
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)
www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
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...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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)
www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
She’ll draw on her recently co-edited (with Mona Arshi) anthology ‘Nature Matters’ (Faber)
www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
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...
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
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...
She’ll draw on her recently co-edited (with Mona Arshi) anthology ‘Nature Matters’ (Faber)
www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
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...
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
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...
www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
Reposted by Cath Drake
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.
Also I've just added a couple tickets for those who can only make the first date.
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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September 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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.
Also I've just added a couple tickets for those who can only make the first date.
Reposted by Cath Drake
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
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...
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.
Also I've just added a couple tickets for those who can only make the first date.
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
September 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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.
Also I've just added a couple tickets for those who can only make the first date.
'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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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
'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...
www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
Explore lyric poetry...
www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
Explore lyric poetry with brilliant nature poet, recently shortlisted for the Laurel Prize and one of Australia’s best poetry teachers! Congratulations Judith!
www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
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September 22, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Explore lyric poetry with brilliant nature poet, recently shortlisted for the Laurel Prize and one of Australia’s best poetry teachers! Congratulations Judith!
www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
Only two tickets left for Thursday's fab masterclass with this fabulous dynamic duo from Australia! Professional development for poets with the best teachers...
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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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
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 9, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Only two tickets left for Thursday's fab masterclass with this fabulous dynamic duo from Australia! Professional development for poets with the best teachers...
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!
www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
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
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...
www.tickettailor.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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!
www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
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
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...
Reposted by Cath Drake
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
@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
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...
@giramondobooks.bsky.social & Alan Fyfe www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
Hurray! Fabulous poet
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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‘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
Hurray! Fabulous poet
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...
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
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...
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...
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
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...
Inspiration for your reading and writing with two top Aussie poets and teachers - explore the making of imaginative selves
www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
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
Inspiration for your reading and writing with two top Aussie poets and teachers - explore the making of imaginative selves
www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
A new workshop developed with the most amazing Malika Booker to immerse in one of her writing passions.
www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
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
A new workshop developed with the most amazing Malika Booker to immerse in one of her writing passions.
www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
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
Mindfulness & Poetry joy next Thursday evening with the wonderful Women Poets Network @FoundationSwift www.tickettailor.com/events/rebec...
It’s our last drop-in Practising Poetic Metre workshop on Sunday for a while and we are looking at Emily Dickinson and Mimi Khalvati @carcanet.bsky.social poems and there’s a bit of fun pre-homework to try. Join us! www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
Buy tickets – Practising Poetic Metre, 6/7/25 – Zoom
This is a small informal fun drop-in session to practice poetic metre. Metre takes practise to get it into your bloodstream and...
www.tickettailor.com
June 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
It’s our last drop-in Practising Poetic Metre workshop on Sunday for a while and we are looking at Emily Dickinson and Mimi Khalvati @carcanet.bsky.social poems and there’s a bit of fun pre-homework to try. Join us! www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
Reposted by Cath Drake
Join our drop-in session practicing poetic metre on 6th July! Metre takes practise to get it into your bloodstream and hear it ring out… run and rewarding, a great skill to add to your poetic toolbox. www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
Buy tickets – Practising Poetic Metre, 6/7/25 – Zoom
This is a small informal fun drop-in session to practice poetic metre. Metre takes practise to get it into your bloodstream and...
www.tickettailor.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Join our drop-in session practicing poetic metre on 6th July! Metre takes practise to get it into your bloodstream and hear it ring out… run and rewarding, a great skill to add to your poetic toolbox. www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
It’s hard to speak of the horrors in the world in the midst of our daily lives. Tara Bergin is here to help
@carcanet.bsky.social
buytickets.at/cathdrakesth...
@carcanet.bsky.social
buytickets.at/cathdrakesth...
Buy tickets – Poetry of the Personal & Political with Tara Bergin 28/7/25 – Zoom
'I would like to write as if I had remained silent' – János Pilinszky
In this workshop Tara will look at the ways in which some...
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June 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
It’s hard to speak of the horrors in the world in the midst of our daily lives. Tara Bergin is here to help
@carcanet.bsky.social
buytickets.at/cathdrakesth...
@carcanet.bsky.social
buytickets.at/cathdrakesth...
Join our drop-in session practicing poetic metre on 6th July! Metre takes practise to get it into your bloodstream and hear it ring out… run and rewarding, a great skill to add to your poetic toolbox. www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...
Buy tickets – Practising Poetic Metre, 6/7/25 – Zoom
This is a small informal fun drop-in session to practice poetic metre. Metre takes practise to get it into your bloodstream and...
www.tickettailor.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Join our drop-in session practicing poetic metre on 6th July! Metre takes practise to get it into your bloodstream and hear it ring out… run and rewarding, a great skill to add to your poetic toolbox. www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...