By unpacking Scottish poetry’s kist o riches, we can discover how thought and feeling echo across languages.


By unpacking Scottish poetry’s kist o riches, we can discover how thought and feeling echo across languages.
Intimate monthly seminars with Shazea Quraishi.
Explore multimedia, multilingual, and multicultural Latin American poetry with poet, multimedia artist, and literary translator Elizabeth Torres.
The 2022 Ginkgo Prize Ecopoetry Anthology contains all the winning and highly commended poems from this year’s awards, judged by renowned poet ecopoet and memoirist Seán Hewitt, and ecopoet, writer, and editor Karen McCarthy Woolf.
The winning poets were Anthony Lawrence, Cath Drake, Yvonne Reddick and the AONB Best Poem of UK Landscape was written by David Canning.
We’re offering 50% off selected courses in the Poetry School September Sale. To celebrate the start of the new academic year, we’re offering a 50% discount on some of our fantastic Autumn Term courses. Just use the coupon code AUTUMN50 to access this limited-time offer. Check out the full list of discounted courses below. We…
Read MoreWelcome to our Forward Prizes 2023 ‘How I Did It’ series. This year we asked the poets shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection to write about the inspiration behind the poems in their collection. Here’s Kandace Siobhan Walker on what inspired her to write Cowboy. When I was editing Cowboy, I was…
Read MoreWelcome to our Forward Prizes 2023 ‘How I Did It’ series. This year we asked the poets shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (Written) to write about the inspiration behind their chosen poem. Here’s Kathryn Bevis on what inspired her to write ‘My body tells me that she’s filing for divorce.’ On…
Read MoreWe are delighted to announce that for academic year 2023-24, four outstanding students have been awarded full-fee scholarships for the Poetry School’s MA in Writing Poetry accredited by Newcastle University. This year two scholarships entirely funded entirely by the Poetry School have been awarded. We are pleased to award a Poetry School Scholarship to an outstanding candidate, Elontra Hall, a Black-American poet…
Read MoreWelcome to our Forward Prizes 2023 ‘How I Did It’ series. This year we asked the poets shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (Performed) to write about the inspiration behind some of their poems from the chosen collection. Here’s Michael Pedersen on what inspired him to write ‘The Cat Prince‘. ‘The Cat…
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