Marvin Thompson has been announced by The Poetry Society as the winner of the National Poetry Competition at the National Poetry Competition Awards event live on Zoom. Judges Neil Astley, Jonathan Edwards and Karen McCarthy Woolf have awarded first prize for the National Poetry Competition for Marvin Thompson’s poem ‘The Fruit of the Spirit is […]
The Poetry Society has announced that Maria Isakova-Bennett has been chosen by poet and editor Vona Groarke as the winner of the Peggy Poole Award 2020, at the National Poetry Competition Awards event live on Zoom on 25 March. Maria will receive mentoring from Vona as her prize, culminating in a celebratory reading in the […]
The Poetry Society is pleased to once again be supporting the recently announced Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival programme. As part of a rich and varied line-up, The Poetry Society will host a digital reading event ‘Nature and Nurture’ on Sunday 15 November at 5pm GMT featuring poets Joe Dunthorne, Charlotte Knight, Elaine Beckett and Ian […]
To mark the final week of the National Poetry Competition 2020 being open for entries, The Poetry Society is releasing a series of five video readings each weekday at 1pm GMT as part of a series called ‘Then & Now’. In each short video, a poet who has previously been placed in the competition reads […]
The poetry film ‘Polite Safety Notice’, adapted by animator Aindri C from the Mark Fiddes poem of the same name, has been selected for screening at the ChangeFest Virtual Film Festival 2020, the International Social Change Film Festival. The film has been selected for a ‘Climate Change, Environmental Sustainability and Animal Justice’ programme of short […]
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