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Primers: Volume Four Mentoring and Publication Scheme Open for Entries

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Poetry Playback: 'Giant' by Richard Georges

Tutor: Richard Georges

Review: 'An Ocean of Static' by J.R. Carpenter

Posted in Reviews 5 days ago by Jade Cuttle Jade Cuttle

'17 Forensic Ways I Know You'

Posted in Poems 2 weeks ago by Ginny Saunders Ginny Saunders
Face-to-Face Course

Creative Translation

Tutor: Jen Calleja
£144.00

'The Specular City'

Posted in Poems 4 weeks ago by Swithun Cooper Swithun Cooper

Review: 'The White Book' by Han Kang (trans. Deborah Smith)

Posted in Reviews 4 weeks ago by Humphrey Astley Humphrey Astley
Events

Home is a Name: Journeys, Departures, and Arrivals

Tutor: Richard Georges
Face-to-Face Course

Fresh Words from America: Exploring the Hottest Contemporary American Poetry

Tutor: Peter Kahn
£35.00

'How to go home'

Posted in Poems 1 month ago by Rosemary Appleton Rosemary Appleton

'Being a true account of the voyage of Vincenzo Lunardi'

Posted in Poems 1 month ago by Beverley Casebow Beverley Casebow

'Emma’s Attitudes'

Posted in Poems 1 month ago by Anna Amo Anna Amo

Review: 'A Watchful Astronomy' by Paul Deaton

Posted in Reviews 1 month ago by Richie McCaffery Richie McCaffery
Face-to-Face Course

Ecopoetry, Environmentalism and Activism (Bristol)

Tutor: Samantha Walton
£90.00

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Review: ‘City of Bones: A Testament’ by Kwame Dawes

I read City of Bones (Northwestern University Press), over 200 pages of poems, in one sitting. I was completely held by this heart-full incantation, this uncompromising, philosophical and allusive series of narrative, lyrical and elegiac poems that ventriloquise the ‘multitudes of souls urgently and forcefully singing, shouting, groaning, and dreaming about the African diasporic present and future.’…

Posted in Reviews 3 days ago by Kay Syrad
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Review: ‘An Ocean of Static’ by J.R. Carpenter

In between the billows of foaming brine, tucked away behind stacks of salt, lurks the pearl of a poetic endeavour completely unlike any other. An Ocean of Static (Penned in the Margins) is the debut collection by digital writer J.R. Carpenter, whose cryptic stream of ever-shifting code spectacularly reinvents the seascape. From the late 15th century…

Posted in Reviews 5 days ago by Jade Cuttle
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Primers: Volume Four Mentoring and Publication Scheme Open for Entries

The Poetry School and Nine Arches Press are excited to announce that Primers Volume Four is now open for entries. Primers is an annual mentoring and publication scheme organised by the Poetry School and Nine Arches Press. It provides a unique opportunity for talented poets to find publication and receive a programme of supportive feedback,…

Posted in News 2 weeks ago by The Poetry School
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’17 Forensic Ways I Know You’

D18S51, There is no-one like you. There is a 1 in a quintillion chance of there being someone like you, but still not you. I would know, with every sense I would know D21S11, I could pick the bouquet of your sweaty t-shirt from a line-up of sweaty t-shirts D3S1358, Who else would naturally select…

Posted in Poems 2 weeks ago by Ginny Saunders
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What is a Metic Poet?

The question most writers ask me at the beginning of a Metics workshop is ‘What is a Metic?’.   The simple answer usually is: You are! A fish does not know it’s a fish until it leaves the water. The term ‘Metic’ means a foreigner whose allegiances are split between their homeland and their new country. Metic is a Greek word, which we might…

Posted in Courses 2 weeks ago by Nick Makoha
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If you are looking for a venue to facilitate your own teaching, workshops, meetings or other gatherings, the Poetry School has three flexible spaces for hire at very affordable rates. Rooms are available most weekdays and some weekends.

Situated on Lambeth Walk, the Poetry School is located in a central and convenient area for public transport and is within walking distance of several tube stations including Waterloo.

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