Poetry Society Member Romalyn Ante has won the Poetry London Clore Prize, judged by Kwame Dawes. Fellow Members Victor Tapner and Pascale Petit were among the Commended poets. In 2017, Romalyn was joint winner of the Manchester Writing Competition with Laura Webb, and was selected for the Primers mentoring and publications scheme, run by the […]
A big splash over on the Waterlines website, where our Canal Laureate Nancy Campbell is about to set off on a week-long kayak trip along the Desmond Family Canoe Trail. Beginning in Liverpool and ending in Leeds, she’ll be paddling through Aintree, Parbold, Wigan, Blackburn and the locks and swing bridges in between. En route, […]
Find yourself the perfect tree-dappled spot to savour the latest summer issue of The Poetry Review… We’ve new poems on the sea, squid, filial relationships, rain and the dodo by contributors including Heather Christle, Andre Bagoo, A.K. Blakemore, Hugo Williams, Helen Mort, Liz Berry, Wayne Holloway-Smith, Vidyan Ravinthiran, Martina Evans and Peter Gizzi. We’ve a […]
Over the Easter holidays The Poetry Society’s SLAMbassadors team took our spoken word project to South London and held a masterclass for local young poets at Brixton Recording Studio in Angell Town. Our young poets worked with SLAM maestro Joelle Taylor to produce new work which we captured in a series of videos made by […]
Poetry Society Members have won all three categories in this year’s Poetry on the Lake Competition. Jane Burn has won the Silver Wyvern Open Competition, with fellow Members Sarah Barr and Christopher North second and third, and Scott Elder among the Highly Commended poets. The judge, Fred Johnston, said: It was difficult to arrive at […]
Imtiaz Dharker has chosen five poets for the prestigious Northern Writers’ Award for Poetry, including Poetry Society Member Lindsey Holland alongside Elizabeth Barrett, Helen Mort, Eleanor Rees and Clare Shaw. Established in 2000 by New Writing North, the Northern Writers’ Awards supports work-in-progress by new, emerging and established writers across the North of England. The […]
Robert Minhinnick’s highly acclaimed poetry collection, Diary of the Last Man (Carcanet) has been named Wales Book of the Year 2018. Robert also won the Roland Mathias Poetry Prize, receiving the overall prize of £4,000. Diary of the Last Man is described by the author as a walk across Britain; Brexit Britain, a Britain facing […]
Poetry Society Member Maria Castro Dominguez is among the winning poets of this year’s Brittle Star Poetry Competition, judged by Pascale Petit and Jacqueline Gabbitas, with fellow Members S M H (Sue) Davies and N J Hynes picking up Commendations. Congratulations to them all and the other poets on the list. First Prize: Cathy Grindrod – […]
The Royal Society of Literature has introduced 40 new Fellows under the age of 40, including The Poetry Review Editor Emily Berry, Poetry Society Members Inua Ellams, Sarah Howe (who has also been a guest editor of The Poetry Review), and Sabrina Mahfouz, and fellow poets Jay Bernard, Sophie Collins, Helen Mort, Kei Miller and […]
An amazing opportunity from Blue Cross popped into The Poetry Society inbox today. The animal charity is on the look-out for a Pet Poet Laureate – an emerging poet who has a little bit of experience of publishing and performing, and is keen to develop their skills amongst the UK’s cats, dogs and assorted furries […]
The Poetry Society’s Young Poets Network is pleased to launch the fifth annual Timothy Corsellis Prize. Timothy Corsellis was a young poet and pilot killed in 1941. The Prize was set up in his name, with the support of his family, to encourage more people to read the powerful but lesser-known poets of the Second […]
The Poetry Society’s national youth slam is back! This year, SLAMbassadors offers opportunities for all spoken word artists, MCs, rappers and performers who work with words aged 13 – 25. 13 – 18 year olds can now apply to take part in a free SLAMbassadors masterclass with Joelle Taylor on 17th and 18th November 2018 at The Poetry Society in London. […]
Raymond Antrobus’s poem ‘Sound Machine’ is the winner of The Poetry Society’s Geoffrey Dearmer Prize for the best poem in The Poetry Review during 2017. The Prize, which is awarded annually to a poem by a poet who hadn’t, at the time their work appeared, published a full collection, was judged this year by poet […]
Donald Hall was a prolific author who began writing when he was just 12 years old. Over the course of a career that spanned more than seven decades, he wrote over 40 books, about half of which were works of poetry. In 2006, he was appointed as U.S. Poet Laureate and awarded the 2010 National […]
Today, 22 June 2018, marks 70 years since migrants from the Caribbean disembarked Windrush at Tilbury Docks, Essex. To commemorate this landmark anniversary, the summer set of Poems on the Underground has a Windrush theme, featuring poets from and around the Caribbean: James Berry, Andrew Salkey, Jean Binta Breeze, Lorna Goodison, Kwame Dawes and Grace Nichols. […]
Poets Julia Copus, David Morley, and Pascale Petit are included in the Royal Society of Literature’s new intake of 31 Fellows, with Neil Astley, Ruth Borthwick, Kwame Dawes and Nathalie Teitler receiving Honorary Fellowships for ‘significant contribution to the advancement of literature’. Election as a Fellow of the RSL is a uniquely prestigious literary honour, […]
Our Canal Laureate Nancy Campbell finds herself paddling through the crisp packets and cigarette ends littering the River Lea. Read her latest blog on the power poetry has to tackle plastic pollution. The Canal Laureate project is part of a wider partnership between the Canal & River Trust and Arts Council England, which aims to attract […]
Congratulations to the winners of the Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition, judged by Liz Berry & David Constantine, including Poetry Society Members Ann Gray, Christopher North and Madeleine Wurzburger. The four winners are: Rebecca Cullen (Nottingham) for her collection Majid Sits in a Tree and Sings Ann Gray (Cornwall) for her collection I […]
From John Keats’ poem inspired by the Parthenon sculptures to Daljit Nagra’s 2017 collection British Museum, the sculpture collection has long been a subject of inspiration to poets. We’re delighted to be collaborating with our British Museum neighbours on a series of new commissions inspired by its exhibition Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece (running 26 April […]
Poetry Society Member Kate Clanchy has been awarded an MBE for services to literature in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Kate has been a teacher in state schools for nearly 30 years and is Writer in Residence at Oxford Spires Academy. Over the last nine years, she has nurtured creative talent at the school, whose pupils come […]
The public vote is now open for A Poem To Remember, a new competition marking the centenary of the First World War. The judging panel, who whittled the entries down to a shortlist of 5 poems, was chaired by historian Dan Snow and included Andy McNab, Stephen Fry, Caroline Wyatt, JJ Chalmers, Katherine Rundell, Meena […]
The shortlist for the Seamus Heaney Centre’s First Collection Poetry Prize has been announced and includes Poetry Society Member Ellen Cranitch. Ellen is a poet, journalist and teacher. Her prize-winning poetry is published by Templar and Carcanet Press and in many periodicals and magazines. She has taught at the University of St Andrews, City University […]
On Saturday 2nd June, The Poetry Café welcomed Foyle Young Poets, Young Poets Network challenge winners and SLAMbassadors for an afternoon of readings. On the line-up were six stellar Foyle Young Poets: Sarah Fletcher, Lucy Thynne, Cia Mangat, Mukahang Limbu, Meredith LeMaître and Em Power. Three of these writers are also Young Poets Networkers and one is a SLAMbassadors champion, and the […]
The winning poem in the €1,000 Caterpillar Poetry Prize is ‘Mustafa’s Jumper’ by Poetry Society Member Coral Rumble. The prize is run by the junior art and literature magazine The Caterpillar and awarded annually to a single unpublished poem written by an adult for children. The judge this year was Chrissie Gittins. Coral said: “The Caterpillar […]
Selected Poems 2000-2014 by Colette Bryce has won the €8,000 Pigott Poetry Prize 2018 at the opening night of Listowel Writers’ Week in Kerry. Adjudicators Billy Collins and Deryn Rees Jones selected the work from a shortlist that included Michael Longley’s Angel Hill and Sinéad Morrissey’s On Balance, winner of the 2017 Forward Prize for […]
Many congratulations to all the winning, commended and shortlisted poets in this year’s Red Shed Poetry Competition. The winner this year is Poetry Society Member Graham Burchell (who won The Poetry Society’s Stanza Competition in 2015) for his poem ‘A Loss of Eden’, with fellow Member Jane Burn in second place for ‘On Dissecting the […]
Huge congratulations to Will Harris, whose poem ‘SAY’ first published in The Poetry Review, Winter 2017 has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem, announced today. You can read the poem on the Review webpage and listen to him reading it in an exclusive recording. The Forward Prize shortlist also features Poetry […]
The winner of the fourth annual Roehampton Poetry Prize for best poetry collection of the year is Robin Robertson’s The Long Take, published by Picador. The award was founded to support poets of every nationality and age who live and work in Britain during the year their books were published. Each year, the eligible poetry […]
The Poetry Society is delighted to announce that acclaimed poet Ocean Vuong, the winner of both the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection with his debut Night Sky With Exit Wounds (Cape), will judge the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize 2017. It will be the first poetry prize he has judged […]
Many Poetry Society Members excelled in the Teignmouth Poetry Competition this year, with the winners announced at the Teignmouth Poetry Festival. In the Open Competition, judged by Pascale Petit, Society Members Sue Proffitt and Joanna Lowry were placed second and third behind the winner Graeme Ryan. Included on the shortlist were Frances Corkey Thompson and […]
This year’s judge for the Fish Publishing prize, Ellen Bass, has selected ten poems to be published in the 2018 Fish Anthology. The winner of the €1,000 first prize is ‘Vernacular Green’ by Janet Murray and there are ten Honorary Mentions including Poetry Society Members Gabriella Attems and Caroline Bracken who will both feature in […]
Poetry Society Member Joanne Key, who was second in the National Poetry Competition in 2014, has won the Hippocrates Open Prize for Poetry and Medicine, announced by judge Mark Doty at an awards ceremony at the Poetry Foundation, Chicago. Her winning poem was ‘Colony’ which concerned the distress of her father during his final illness. […]
It’s one-two-three for Poetry Society Members in this year’s Poets & Players competition, judged by Pascale Petit. Sarah Westcott is the winner, with James Friedman and Andrew Rudd in second and third place. Among the Commended poets are Society Members Mark Fiddes and Joanna Lowry. Pascale: “When Poets & Players asked me to judge their […]
The annual award of £10,000 for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, evoking the spirit of a place has been won by Poetry Society Member Pascale Petit for Mama Amazonica (Bloodaxe Books). This is the first time poetry has won the Prize. Pascale: “I’m absolutely thrilled to win this particular prize for a […]
SciPo, the annual science poetry event run by The Poet’s House Oxford with St Hilda’s College Oxford, has just held its first science poetry competition, judged by Jane Draycott. The winner is Poetry Society Member Frances-Anne King for her poem ‘Home Thoughts from the Red Planet’. Frances-Anne King’s poetry has won a number of prizes […]
The 2018 Stanza Poetry Competition is open and our theme this year is TRADITION. It’s free to enter but you must be a Poetry Society member (if you’re not a member join here) who is also a member of a Poetry Society Stanza – but you can join anytime before the competition closes. Send up to […]
Helen Ivory has named the winners and Highly Commended poets for this year’s Bristol Poetry Prize, and there’s a lot of success for Poetry Society Members. The winner is Poetry Society Member Dominic Fisher for ‘Hardware Visitations’, Helen: “This poem, I put on my ‘read again’ pile four times, knowing I couldn’t consume it all […]
Former Foyle Young Poets Laura Potts and Jade Cuttle have joined Write Out Loud as Gig Guide Editor and Contributing Editor respectively. Laura was recently the winner of the Mother’s Milk Books Writing Prize, Commended in Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize and Highly Commended in the Prole Laureate Poetry Competition. She was commended in the […]
Poetry Society Member Majella Kelly is second in this year’s Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize. Majella Kelly is a poet and photographer based in County Galway, Ireland. She is currently enrolled on the MSt in Creative Writing at The University of Oxford. www.majellakelly.com The competition was won by Robert Lipton, picked by the judge Patrick […]
“I think shame is very unhelpful, that taboos can be very unhelpful – maybe we should try and be as brave as our poems,” says Fiona Benson, the latest interviewee in the ever-expanding Poetry Review podcast series. Fiona talks to Review Editor Emily Berry, about her new collection Vertigo & Ghost, forthcoming from Cape in […]
On National @PoetryDayUK, Thu 4 October, the UK celebrates poetry with special events. Are you putting on an event? If you are, the organisers want to hear from you. post the info at nationalpoetryday.co.uk/join-in/ or email [email protected] Retweeted by The Poetry Society
Hear the #FoyleYoungPoets gang on @cerysmatthews' @bbcradio6 show bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06… Thanks Cerys for your continued support of poetry inc. #DylanDay! Young poets can enter the comp below before 31st July - please RT! foyleyoungpoets.org @youngpoetsnet @PoetrySociety Retweeted by The Poetry Society
Poetry is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far, so fast in such a small space, that you've got to burn away all the peripherals. —Sylvia Plath Retweeted by The Poetry Society
“Remember: the world is good, that leaping center is a tuned heart. I want that melody.” New York poet Leah Umansky @lady_bronte, reading at the Poetry Café 23rd July 7pm w/ @ruthpadel bit.ly/padelumansky
Great new ‘Behind the Poem’ piece from @ruthpadel on her poem ‘Clast’ out now – 1) read the article 2) read the poem in The Poetry Review Spring 2018 issue & 3) hear Ruth read on 23rd July w/ US-poet Leah Umansky @lady_bronte at the Poetry Café bit.ly/padelclast
Coming up on Sunday's @bbcpoetryplease - @Idharker picks favourite poems from the archive of listeners' requests. This week her choices also come from Carol Ann Duffy & @JackieKayPoet & inc poems from @HelenMort & @MissLizBerry bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b…
And this is where I talk about all the ways Foyle Young Poets was Good twitter.com/PoetrySociety/… Retweeted by The Poetry Society
Don't miss this new interview with Helen Mort, Ankita Saxena and Richard O'Brien - all former #FoyleYoungPoets - on @youngpoetsnet: https://t.co/LzQ9eoy5Gv #FoyleFriday pic.twitter.com/5D2y3Zm4Tu
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The @PoetrySociety were on @cerysmatthews @6_Music discussing the #FoyleYoungPoets competition. 🔊 ow.ly/rbyl30kY4rv Join former winner @ankitawrites for a poetry workshop at our #TellingTales Festival on 29 July. Retweeted by The Poetry Society
Our amazing #education team were on @cerysmatthews @6_Music yesterday discussing the #FoyleYoungPoets of the Year Award with the amazing #Foyle poet @mukki_s1. Listen to their interview here ow.ly/ZDke30kY38O #FoyleYoungPoets deadline 31 July 2018. foyleyoungpoets.org
Don't leave me without poems for that last hour at the Poetry Cafe. ONE slot left for 1-1 feedback 4.45pm, Wed July 25th: poetrysociety.org.uk/event/goss/ @PoetrySociety Retweeted by The Poetry Society
🍾 @PoetrySociety Member @RomalynAnte wins Poetry London Clore Prize 🍾🍾 Success too for @pascalepoet and @Victortapner poetrysociety.org.uk/news/clore/
"Winning Foyle really kicked off my passion for poetry and opened doors to exciting opportunities." Hear more about the #FoyleYoungPoets of the Year Award and its impact on former winners in our third #FoyleFriday feature: bit.ly/foylefriday3 Retweeted by The Poetry Society
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Thanks @cheryleehouston for choosing @lemnsissay on @bbcpoetryplease as one of your picks of the week #potw. We’ll be listening at 6.15pm bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b… Retweeted by The Poetry Society
Today's picture: a locket holding Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley's hair #RomanticsPics Retweeted by The Poetry Society
Great listening to Nazmia from the @PoetrySociety talking about the #FoyleYoungPoet project @PoetryEducation with @cerysmatthews on @BBC6Music - they were key to #ThinkingOutsidethePenaltyBox Retweeted by The Poetry Society
Hiya we’re at @BBC6Music for @PoetrySociety Retweeted by The Poetry Society
T. S. Eliot and his first wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood at their home in Crawford Mansions, Marylebone, 1916. Retweeted by The Poetry Society
A fantastic programme of talks, workshops and a supper club is taking place in the #forestlounge this weekend #fellowshipisland #WalthamstowGardenParty #WGP2018 Retweeted by The Poetry Society
Sunday. C'mon and join us at our open Mic tomorrow at Walthamstow Garden Party. Bring poems! Yours or someone else's. It doesn't matter. 12.30 till 2 at the Forest Lounge on Fellowship Island. Free and no ticket required. Retweeted by The Poetry Society