Groups

Welcome to #NaPoWriMo 2018 with the Poetry School.

Just like last year, we’ll be providing an inspiring writing prompt every day of April, which is National (and now World!) Poetry Writing Month.

Here’s how it works:

The prompts will be posted daily in this Campus group (note: not via email!). Just click #NaPoWriMoPrompts, underneath the ‘Say Something’ box, to go directly to the day’s prompt.

We encourage you to post your poems in the group, and share in the discussion! The group is open to everyone, so invite your friends. (Want help posting? Click #FAQs).

IMPORTANT NOTES:

Don’t click the rather tempting ‘Leave Group’ button as this will permanently remove you from the group!

Try to avoid using your own hashtags (#) as it clutters the hashtag menu at the top.

Please have a read of the #FAQs (next to #NaPoWriMoPrompts) before you get started!

Interesting poetical tidbits from across the web.

Your go-to place for upcoming poetry competitions, calls for submissions, and other random prompts and challenges.

An open group for people to share and discuss their poetry reading. What collections, pamphlets, anthologies and criticism are you reading – give us your reviews and recommendations.

Tell us about your own poetry news – what events are you planning, which magazine has just accepted your poem, what competitions are you entering? We love to know what Poetry School students and friends are up to – this a place for you to blow your own trumpets!

Join this group to find out basic information about Campus and how it works. If you have any questions about Campus that aren’t answered on the Welcome page, post them here. Please note that this group is monitored by Poetry School staff during office hours, so we might not always be able to answer your questions immediately, but we’ll get to them as soon as we can.

This public appreciation group is open to poets of all levels, from experienced workshop pros, to inexperienced writers new to CAMPUS. Post up to two poems a month and get public feedback. Maybe publish a new draft, or simply showcase one of your greatest hits? You write them and we read them.

The rules:

– Please post no more than 2 poems per calendar month.

– This group works on a ‘quid pro quo’ system – if you post a poem of your own into the group, then please leave a comment on someone else’s work. For each poem you upload, you should aim to offer your personal feedback on someone else’s work, particularly those who have received no comments so far.

– Please be sensitive to the experience and needs of the poet when and if you are commenting on his / her work. Constructive criticism helps writers develop their skills; inappropriately harsh commentary at the wrong point can stop them writing altogether.

Re-visit the most misunderstood of all the poetic forms and contribute towards making the ordinary extraordinary

April is National Poetry Writing Month. Join us, and write a poem a day for the whole month! We’ll be supplying a fresh prompt every morning to get you writing, and an example poem to get you in the right frame of mind. Post your poems in the group, and share in the discussion! This group is open to everyone – invite your friends.

Prompts will be posted in the group (not via email). First, make sure you’re in the group, not on the Campus homepage, then click #NaPoWriMoPrompts at the top of the page to see all of the prompts.

How can poetry speak to us if it does not take risks, say something bold and new, make adventurous leaps with language and form?

Writing after and against the new dystopian

This is a group for students enrolled on the Poetry School’s MA in Writing Poetry in partnership with Newcastle University, 2017/19.

For beginner writers who want to explore some definitions of poetry; and to start some structured learning about rhyme, metre, verse forms, lineation and stanzas.

This is the closed group for students enrolled on the Poetry School’s MA in Writing Poetry in partnership with Newcastle University, 2016/18, and studying in London.

Formulate a new poetic language that transcends the merely human

If translation is a movement, who is permitted to cross?

Conquering the complex, elaborate, diabolical sestina

Archive, document and catalogue carefully selected moments of your life past, present and future

Confront forbidden topics through a literary lens

Play congenial hosts to your psychoanalytical ‘opposites’