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Poetry in the Age of AI

Can AI deepen our understanding of poetry practice? As part of our Poetic Craft series, Hannah Silva discusses how AI has impacted poetry. Do you think poets should be using AI, or writing about it? Or maybe both?  The widespread use of large language models (LLMs), and the way they can produce texts that resemble creative writing so quickly makes…

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Translation as Creative Writing 

As part of our Poetry Craft series, Steve Komarnyckyj discusses the craft of translation in creative writing.  Do you think every act of writing is a kind of translation?  We are all translators. Everything we do is an act of translation. Our brains interpret the sensory data flooding our perceptions. Each of us inhabits a world that we have “translated“…

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How to Write About Your Family

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 Kit Griffiths on how to write about your family. When you start writing about your family, what’s the…

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Nick Makoha – 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 Nick Makoha on his collection The New Carthaginians. Blurring the Boundary Esther Kondo Heller said The New Carthaginians breaks the conventions…

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Christmas Challenge Big Give Pathways Through Poetry

Christmas Challenge Big Give: Pathways Through Poetry

Pathways Through Poetry with The Poetry School £5,000 will enable 5 gifted, under-represented poets to access our new Pathways Through Poetry programme, through fully sponsored places and, in so doing, imbue the poetry landscape with vital new voices. By ‘under-represented poets’ we mean talented creatives who face barriers to opportunities due to mental health issues,…

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