Groups

Opening up the under-recognised poetries of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia

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!

A lyrical look at feeling, forgetting, intuition, image, and seeing the world in a totally new way

Writing the people and places of our trans-national urban spaces

An intensive studio course on bad language, bad form and bad taste.

Write on Lynchian themes, including dreams, identity, sexuality and the supernatural world of love.

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

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

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

A private group for poets selected for the New North Poets scheme with The Poetry School and New Writing North. This group is for discussion between participants, Poetry School staff and your tutor, Clare Pollard. Live chats will also take place in this group.

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

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

Explore the boundaries of writing from, about and naming desire

This is a Campus group associated with Tamar Yoseloff’s Poetry & Visual Art courses, a place for course members to share work, resources and conversation.

Course description: Poets have long drawn inspiration from painters and sculptors; with the rise of a new generation of artists challenging traditional media, can we find in them a source for poems which push boundaries in a similar manner? Tamar will take you into gallery spaces to engage with contemporary art and to encourage new poems in response. You will also look at parallels between the gallery as a space for exhibition and
the page as a dynamic space for composition, and, based on the tutors’ own experience, will discuss the technicalities of artist / poet collaborations, publications and residencies.

Set sail on an adventure to craft poems for young audiences.

Investigate how poetry can engage with memory, both individual and collective, in order to reflect on the past and produce innovative work aiming towards the future.

Craft musical poems and investigate how sound can work in the poetic line

Use philosophical concepts to sharpen your poetry, and poetry to bring those concepts to life

An advanced online course investigating and mastering the elegy

As when the south wind spreads a curtain of mist upon the mountain tops, bad for shepherds but better than night for thieves, and a man can see no further than he can throw a stone, even so rose the dust from under their feet as they made all speed over the plain.