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Peer into the world of science and scientists to gather inspiration for new poems

Celebrate and explore the best-kept secrets in innovative, contemporary European poetry

Posts relating to websites, magazines, events and festivals which welcome international involvement

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The radical art of writing defiantly happy poems

Develop your own language of survival & explore how to write in a way which nourishes and gives shape to chaos

Explore the boundaries of writing from, about and naming desire

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

Adventure away from personal experience and delve into the treasure chest of history

Explore the possibilities of form as a way of freeing of the writing process

An advanced online course investigating and mastering the elegy

Equip yourself to adjust the nuts and bolts that account for the sound of a line

Avoid plagiarism, but explore the creative activity of appropriation and “stealing”

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

Avoid plagiarism, but explore the creative activity of appropriation and “stealing”

Translate the felt world into poetry and write work of the body

Knock those loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback.

Poem submission deadlines:

POEM 1 – FEBRUARY 5

POEM 2 – FEBRUARY 19

POEM 3 – MARCH 5

POEM 4 – MARCH 19

POEM 5 – APRIL 2 (EASTER MONDAY)

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

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.

How can poetry respond to ecological disaster and its far-reaching repercussions?