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Autumn 2024 – Quick Course Guide

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Announcing the Poetry School MA in Writing Poetry Scholarship 2024

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What Is Revolutionary Poetics? by Mischa Foster Poole

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MA Student Suzanna Fitzpatrick reads her poem "Somerset House"

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'Tender Towards Innocence' by Carmen Bugan: a blog on Innocence in a Troubled World

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'He Do The Police In Different Voices' by Stephen Komarnyckyj: a blog on Alternative Histories

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2022 Ginkgo Prize Ecopoetry Anthology

The 2022 Ginkgo Prize Ecopoetry Anthology contains all the winning and highly commended poems from this year’s awards, judged by renowned poet ecopoet and memoirist Seán Hewitt, and ecopoet, writer, and editor Karen McCarthy Woolf.

The winning poets were Anthony Lawrence, Cath Drake, Yvonne Reddick and the AONB Best Poem of UK Landscape was written by David Canning.

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A Kaleidoscope of Forms: Digital Pamphlet

Image credit: @artistseyes Earlier this year, we ran the course A Kaleidoscope of Forms: Innovative Poetry in the 21st Century, with visual poet, text artist, and curator, Michał Kamil Piotrowski. This video-based course explored different forms and techniques in 21st-century innovative poetry as inspiration for new experimental writing. Michał has now curated a digital pamphlet of…

Posted in Blog 1 day ago by Beth Evans (Poetry School)
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Autumn 2024 – Quick Course Guide

Our Autumn Term is now live! We have a whole host of brilliant tutors and poetry courses ready for you to pick from and as they tend to sell out really fast we’ve made this Quick Course Guide to help quickly guide you to the right course! Online Courses INTERNATIONAL Online courses without Live Chats,…

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MA Student Suzanna Fitzpatrick reads her poem “Somerset House”

MA in Writing Poetry first year student Suzanna Fitzpatrick is the winner of the Members’ Poems competition in the Summer 2024 issue of Poetry News, on the theme of ‘My Place’. The poem is called ‘Somerset House’, inspired by the location of the Poetry School’s London base and where Suzanna is studying for her MA….

Posted in Poems 1 month ago by Tessa Foley
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Poems from Gaza; Zeina Azzam reviews ‘Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear’ by Mosab Abu Toha

To read poetry from and about Gaza in these times is an act of solidarity, or perhaps even one of resistance. After all, a genocide* has been unfolding in the enclave by the Mediterranean Sea and the world has been unable – or unwilling – to do anything about it. Poetry is indeed political; it…

Posted in Reviews 1 month ago by Zeina Azzam
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Announcing the Poetry School MA in Writing Poetry Scholarship 2024

We’re delighted to announce the Poetry School MA in Writing Poetry Scholarship 2024 for an underrepresented poet. Poetry School is offering a full fees scholarship award to the Poetry School / Newcastle University MA in Writing Poetry for an outstanding applicant who is currently underrepresented in the poetry world. By underrepresented poets, we mean talented creatives who face…

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