MA Studies in Poetry

The Department of English Studies taught MA offers a group of modules (a pathway) that allow students to focus on a specific area, such as poetry studies. There is also a Creative Writing MA, that can include a substantial poetry component. For more information about studying English generally, visit the Department's webpages on postgraduate study.

Creative Writing PhD and MLitt

The Department of English Studies supports Creative Writing at PhD and MLitt level. You will produce a complete and coherent creative writing project in your chosen form, which could include poetry, plus a literary-critical dissertation of a high academic standard. Further details are available from the Department of English Studies.

Studying Basil Bunting

The Basil Bunting Poetry Archive was established in 1988 and is held in Durham University Library's Archives and Special Collections at Palace Green. The CPP especially welcomes enquiries from researchers at MA, PhD level, and beyond who are interested in studying Bunting's work.

Studying Poetry Durham

Poetry Durham was a magazine launched in 1982, under the editorship of Michael O’Neill and Gareth Reeves. The first issue included poems by established poets such as Fleur Adcock, Douglas Dunn, Roy Fisher, the American writer Reginald Gibbons, Grevel Lindop, and C.H. Sisson, as well as by younger writers who would go on to make a name for themselves: Romesh Gunesekera (most famous now as a novelist and writer of short stories), Jamie McKendrick (poet and translator) and D. W. (David) Hartnett (poet and novelist). Applicants interested in the history and significance of poetry magazines are invited to apply to Durham's Department of English Studies to pursue research in this area and to explore the significance of Poetry Durham regionally, nationally and internationally.