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Poetry Playback: Vahni Capildeo reads ‘Venus as a Bear’

Tutor: Vahni Capildeo

Lewis Buxton, Victoria Richards and Amelia Loulli Selected for Primers

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Parasol Unit Workshop: 'Peeling' with Rachel Long

Tutor: Rachel Long

GASP by the New North Poets – Out NOW!

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How I Did It: Eric Gregory Award — Victoria Adukwei Bulley on 'What it Means'

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'an ill wind' by Charlotte Baldwin - Primers Shortlist 2018

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Review: 'The Singing Glacier' by Helen Mort

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'Shadow Boxing' by Lewis Buxton — Primers Shortlist 2018

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Poetry & Cinema

Tutor: Adam Feinstein
£90.00

Review: 'Passivity, Electricity, Acclivity' by Ella Frears

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Mondo: The Global Avant-Garde

Tutor: Steven J Fowler
£144.00

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How I Did It: Eric Gregory Award — Victoria Adukwei Bulley on ‘What it Means’

Welcome to our Eric Gregory Award 2018 ‘How I Did It’ series. We asked the winners of this year’s awards to explain the process behind one of their award-winning poems. In this piece, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, author of Girl B, talks about ‘What it Means’. The Eric Gregory Awards will close for entries on the 31st of October,…

Posted in How I Did It 1 week ago by Victoria Adukwei Bulley
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Review: ‘The Republic of Motherhood’ by Liz Berry

The Republic of Motherhood (Chatto and Windus) is a pamphlet of poems about motherhood. And it’s by Liz Berry, which means that it is brilliant. The poems in this pamphlet celebrate and sing every aspect of early motherhood, in all of its tendernesses and darker sufferings. One thing I was struck by was a really effective balance…

Posted in Reviews 1 week ago by Jonathan Edwards
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Lewis Buxton, Victoria Richards and Amelia Loulli Selected for Primers

The Poetry School and Nine Arches Press are delighted to announce the three poets selected for Primers Volume Four, our mentoring and publication scheme.  After reading hundreds of submissions, the judges Kim Moore and Nine Arches editor Jane Commane have selected:   Lewis Buxton for Weight Victoria Richards for To be fifteen Amelia Loulli for Mother, Mother   Lewis Buxton…

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Review: ‘The Singing Glacier’ by Helen Mort

The Singing Glacier (Hercules Editions) by Helen Mort is a brief collection, just six poems slotted into the size of a crack. But the heart-shaking imagery produced in response to this precious and precarious landscape cuts right to the core. The book opens with an orchestra of clattering spoons and chattering customers; percussive rain pounding against…

Posted in Reviews 2 weeks ago by Jade Cuttle
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‘Watching the Nestbox’ by Anna Selby — Primers Shortlist 2018

Watching the Nestbox May 22nd to July 19th 2018 To hold a dying bird in your hands is like holding an argument: hot little thudding hot scuffle of feathers all angles and escape a body flooded, bolting. Its feathers peek between your fingers: reptilian tongues. A breath-a breath-abreath. Put it in your mouth like a…

Posted in Poems 2 weeks ago by Anna Selby
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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 in Docklands, the Poetry School is located in a central and convenient area for public transport and is within walking distance of several tube stations including Canada Water.

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