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

This Group has blossomed in the wake of Rishi Dastidar’s Lyric iPod Course. It is a space for listening, writing and sharing feedback on poems inspired by music. Everything from Classical to Jazz to Hip Hop will be on the turntable. Every fortnight a fresh playlist and theme will be selected by Group members to spark new poems.

Knock those loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback

First poem submission deadline: 17 May (feedback posted by Heidi by 24 May)
Second poem submission deadline: 31 May (feedback posted by Heidi by 7 June)
Third poem submission deadline: 14 June (feedback posted by Heidi by 21 June)
Fourth poem submission deadline: 28 June (feedback posted by Heidi by 5 July)
Fifth poem submission deadline: 12 July (feedback posted by Heidi by 19 July)

Respond to ancient languages, folk culture and myth

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

Stretch your poetic reflexes and exert your sense of play

Say ‘Not I!’ and unleash hidden multiplicities with new creative identities

Seek creative solace in solitude and silence

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

Time-jump a millennium to poetry’s dawn in Anglo-Saxon riddling

Respect existence or expect resistance

Write your self to find yourself

Formulate a new poetic language that transcends the merely human

Trace the prose poem’s origins from Rimbaud to Rankine

Rejuvenate your poems with a bold, new wave of Chinese voices

Imagine new narratives from history’s spectres

Compose fresh responses to Ancient Greek and Latin texts and fragments

Discover the levers and mechanisms that power free verse forms

Manipulate new meanings with cutting, folding, and chance encounters