Eloise, are you doing your A levels now? I mean, are you about to go for your undergraduate degree? I'd say do English lit for a BA - you can always do a creative writing MA later. The grounding in reading and critical awareness has to be worth it for developing your own writing.
I'm not sure about the absolute merits of a creative writing degree; it's a great way to build a network of creative peers, and mentors as well, though of course that can be done in other ways. If I were doing an MA in poetry to be honest I would probably go to the Royal Holloway, which is where Andrew Motion is based now, but I don't really know about undergraduate courses.
If you plan to stay in London and want a workshop to go to, send me a pm and I'll let you know what's around. Have you checked out Roddy Lumsden's evening classes at City University?
(And yes, it can be combined! Depends how much you want to do it. A friend of mine, back when Michael Donaghy taught the classes, used to commute down on a Wednesday evening from Oxford, where she was doing her degree, to Michael's class. And I hear Roddy's a great workshop facilitator.)
KEB
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