Groups

News updates, calls for submissions, insights into the editing process and general chat about poetry….

Butcher’s Dog is a biannual poetry magazine, founded in the North East of England by six poets who met through a Poetry School/New Writing North development programme in 2011.

Twist and reshape fairytales, the tales from your childhoods and adulthoods

Keep your work vital and disruptive in a shifting world by writing poetry where it has no business being

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.

Choose love, write against brokenness and towards the idea of praise

Raid the artist’s studio and borrow compositional techniques to apply to the writing of poetry

Explore the ceremony in poetry and discover new processes of writing.

Bring the process of essay writing closer to the sensibility of the lyric form

An advanced online course demonstrating the value of omission, redaction, aphorism and minimalism, and broadening your ideas of what is and isn’t a poem.

A group to share old and new voices, on their birthday and other occasions.

This is a closed group for students enrolled on Ros Barber’s Saturday Sessions. To join this group, please contact administration@poetryschool.com

A group for poetry in translation and translated poets. Post recent discoveries, theory, questions and your own translations or poems you’d like someone else to help translate. Partly inspired by Modern Poetry in Translation magazine (check out their wonderful archive: http://www.mptmagazine.com/)

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

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.

A private group for poets-in-residence and mentors on the 2017 Mixed Borders scheme.

Please do not click ‘Leave Group’ as this will remove you from the group permanently.

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

“I don’t believe in writing every day, though I’m at my desk every day’ – Stanley Kunitz

Where do you write? Send us a photo!

This group was created in conjunction with the essay ‘A Room of One’s Own’ by Kim Moore. Read it here: http://campus.poetryschool.com/a-room-of-ones-own/

A space for poets to show poems created by Modernist techniques such blackout, erasure, cut-ups and collage.

Take a playful approach to the possibilities of form and learn to free your writing processes.

Explore how women have claimed the sonnet as a vehicle of self-expression, and write your own sonnets.

Your full schedule is now as follows…

July 3rd = Assignment 1 posted

July 10th = Assignment 2 posted

July 11th = POEM SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR ASSIGNMENT 1

July 17th = Assignment 3 posted / POEM SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR ASSIGNMENT 2

July 24th = POEM SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR ASSIGNMENT 3