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Poetry & Migration £88.00 * Tutor: Sarala Estruch

Poetry & Migration

Explore the important topic of migration, learning how poetry can be the perfect vehicle to tell stories of movement, settlement, and belonging.

Start Date: June 17, 2023 10am – 12.30pm
End Date: June 24, 2023 ( 8 Days )
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2020 Ginkgo Prize Ecopoetry Anthology

The 2020 Ginkgo Prize anthology contains all the winning and highly commended poems from the 2020 awards judged by Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage and Jade Cuttle.

The winning poets were Jane Lovell, Daniel Fraser and Emily Groves. Runners up were Nicola Healey and Sue Kindon and the AONB Best Poem of Landscape was Liz Byrne.

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Summer 2023 – Quick Course Guide

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Review – From From by Monica Youn

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Stanzas for Ukraine – 20

Me, Ulyana and Energy by Iryna Sazhynska, translated from the Ukrainian by Stephen Komarnyckyj The day before yesterday, when there was a storm, my father said: ‘Do you hear that? It’s missiles again!’ It was just thunder, which we are doomed to associate for the remainder of our lives with the expectation of death. Last…

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We’re Hiring! – MA Tutor in Writing Poetry

Poetry School, based at Somerset House, Strand, London. Part-Time, £15-20K per annumStart Date: Autumn Term 2023 The Poetry School is seeking an exceptional poet / educator to teach as a lecturer on the Poetry School / Newcastle University MA in Writing Poetry. The successful candidate will join Glyn Maxwell as fellow tutor on the course,…

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Stanzas for Ukraine – 19

The Poetry of Displacement by Darya Zorina, translated from the Ukrainian by Stephen Komarnyckyj Forced displacement is a theme which has not been picked up by Ukrainian poetry. This is the literary genre, however, which is usually the swiftest and most sensitive to respond to all that happens in the country and to every mass…

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