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How to: Improve Your Writing 

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MA in Writing Poetry Alumni Profiles

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How Cinema Can Improve Your Writing

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How to Improve Your Poetry: Writer’s Block

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Poetry in Motion: Writing with Playfulness & Flexibility

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Break the Rules: Experimental & Playful Poetry

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Unsticking a Stuck Poet: Overcoming Writer's Block 

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Food, Family & Poetry: Writing Memory Through the Senses 

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How to: Improve Your Writing 

In this series, we interview our tutors about poetry and its place in their world. These interviews will cover creative writing tips, excelling in a poetry workshop, building a literary career, and finding your poetic voice. Here’s Leah Umansky on how to improve your writing. What habits or routines do you recommend for poets who…

Posted in Blog 1 day ago by Leah Umansky
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How to Improve Your Poetry: Writing about Good Things: Delight, Joy, Happiness

In this series, we interview our tutors about poetry and its place in their world. These interviews will cover creative writing tips, excelling in a poetry workshop, building a literary career, and finding your poetic voice. Here’s Ellene Glenn Moore on writing about delight, joy and happiness. Why is there so much poetry about misery…

Posted in Blog 1 week ago by Ellene Glenn Moore
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How to: Write a Sonnet

In this series, we interview our tutors about poetry and its place in their world. These interviews will cover creative writing tips, excelling in a poetry workshop, building a literary career, and finding your poetic voice. Here’s James Davies on how to write a sonnet. To write a sonnet, start with a clear theme or…

Posted in Blog 2 weeks ago by James Davies
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CLIMATE POETRY: John Whale and Lone Sorenson, ‘Jizz’

Poets have long used their craft to reframe issues, convey emotion and share ideas, and climate change is an increasing feature of poetry shared across the world. To mark the launch of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures last year, our partners, the University of Leeds Poetry Centre, paired University of Leeds poets with Priestley Centre climate…

Posted in Blog 3 weeks ago by Poetry School
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How Cinema Can Improve Your Writing

In this series, we interview our tutors about poetry and its place in their world. These interviews will cover creative writing tips, excelling in a poetry workshop, building a literary career, and finding your poetic voice. Here’s Simon Barraclough on how cinema can inspire and improve your writing. Simon will be teaching Jaws at 50…

Posted in Blog 3 weeks ago by Simon Barraclough
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