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Jamie McKendrick on Tom Paulin – T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes

Welcome to our Writers’ Notes for the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist. These are educational resources for poets looking to develop their practice and learn from some of contemporary poetry’s most exciting and accomplished voices. Here’s Jamie McKendrick on Tom Paulin‘s collection Namanlagh. A Sparer Idiom In the days when poetry workshops were rare and when no…

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Exploring your Emotions in Poetry

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 Sarah Wardle on how to explore your emotions in poetry. Writing can help us process feelings we don’t…

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Excavation Poetics: Writing Through Language as Ruin

As part of our Poetry Craft series, Giulia Ottavia Frattini discusses the practise of excavation poetics and how to write through language as ruin. Your course talks about poetry beginning where language fractures. How can a poet start writing from gaps, silences, or fragments? Poems often embody the fleeting with such a resonant attunement that…

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Courses for Getting Your Poetry Published 

When you’ve established a writing practice and are looking for tangible results of your progress, getting your poetry published can be a good aim. All our courses and workshops are great for getting poems onto the page, but we have a handful that will help you find a unique voice and burnish existing pieces – getting them ready for print.  “I joined my first Poetry School course when I had…

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Isabelle Baafi – T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes

Welcome to our Writers’ Notes for the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist. These are educational resources for poets looking to develop their practice and learn from some of contemporary poetry’s most exciting and accomplished voices. Here’s Isabelle Baafi on her collection Chaotic Good. Pearls of Wisdom A poetry collection is the result of more than one person’s…

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