The Poetry School
The Poetry School is the UK's largest provider of poetry education and a proud Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.
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- Want to create unique love poems? 💘 In the lead up to Valentine's Day, our tutor Elizabeth Parker discusses her top five love poems you should be reading for that romantic inspiration. 💌 Check out the full list here: poetryschool.com/the...
- 🎓 Interested in taking your poetry to a higher level? Our MA in Writing Poetry Open Day takes place on Saturday 14 March! To register your interest in attending, please contact ma@poetryschool.com. More info here 👉 poetryschool.com/our...
- 📩 Where to Submit You Poetry for 2026! Check out our list of places to submit your wonderful poems this year ⬇️ poetryschool.com/the...
- The T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 Shortlist Readings, hosted by Ian McMillan, will be taking place this Sunday! 🗓️ WHEN: Sunday 18 January, 7-9pm 📍 WHERE: Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London 👉 BOOK NOW: www.southbankcentre....
- 🌟 Jamie McKendrick on Tom Paulin – T. S. Eliot Writer’s Notes 🌟 Our final piece for the Writers’ Notes series! Jamie McKendrick discusses Tom Paulin's collection Namanlagh. 📚 Read the full piece: poetryschool.com/t-s...
- 🌟 Isabelle Baafi – T. S. Eliot Writer’s Notes 🌟 Our Writers’ Notes series is back! Isabelle Baafi shares how valuable feedback opened new doors of possibility and helped shape her collection Chaotic Good. 📚 Read the full piece: poetryschool.com/t-s...
- 🌟 Sarah Howe – T. S. Eliot Writer’s Notes 🌟 Our Writers’ Notes series is back! Sarah Howe shares how taking her time helped her create her collection Foretokens. 📚 Read the full piece: poetryschool.com/t-s...
- 🌟 Nick Makoha – T. S. Eliot Writer’s Notes 🌟 Our Writers’ Notes series is back! Nick Makoha shares how blurring the boundaries helped him create his collection The New Carthaginians. 📚 Read the full piece: poetryschool.com/t-s...
- 📢 We’re Hiring! Programmes and Website Administrator (Fixed Term, 12 Months) 📌 Location: Hybrid — London/Leeds + home working 🗓️ Apply by: Monday 12 January 2026, 11.59pm 💻 Interviews: W/C 19 January 2026 👉 View full job description here: poetryschool.com/ope...
- 🌟 Catherine Esther-Cowie – T. S. Eliot Writer’s Notes 🌟 Our Writers’ Notes series is back! Catherine-Esther Cowie shares how taking a break from writing helped her create her collection Heirloom. 📚 Read the full piece: poetryschool.com/t-s...
- Pathways Through Poetry is launching today with The Big Give! ✨ We’re raising £5k to fund 5 fully sponsored places for emerging poets from underrepresented backgrounds — and every pound will be doubled. 💫 👉 Donate today and double your impact: donate.biggive.org/c...
- 🌟 Gillian Allnutt – T. S. Eliot Writer’s Notes 🌟 Our Writers’ Notes series is back! Gillian Allnutt shares how practising different poetic forms helped create her collection 'Lode'. 📚 Read the full piece:
- Tim Tim Cheng (@timtimtmi.bsky.social) explores how endings & beginnings blur in Yau Ching’s for now I am sitting here growing transparent. This bilingual, Chenxin-Jiang–translated collection links human & non-human through vivid urban anti-eclogues. Read here: poetryschool.com/reviews/quee...
- What an indie publisher can teach you about writing 🖊️ Autumn Richardson & Richard Skelton (@corbelstonepress.bsky.social) on poetry beyond the self: “Experience can be transmuted into mythic, universal narratives.” 📚 Read the full piece: poetryschool.com/the...
- 🌟 Natalie Shapero – T. S. Eliot Writer’s Notes 🌟 Our Writers’ Notes series is back! Natalie Shapero shares how Stay Dead grew from heavy note-taking, planning, and quirky planner notebooks. 📚 Read the full piece: poetryschool.com/the...
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- 🌟 Vona Groarke in our T. S. Eliot Prize Writers’ Notes 🌟 On Infinity Pool and why she “doesn’t have a practice — I just write poems whenever I can.” A gorgeous reflection on how poems happen in the everyday. Read more: poetryschool.com/theblog/vona... 📚
- Pathways Through Poetry — a new 2-year Poetry School programme designed to open doors into the poetry world and build a solid grounding in the craft. 6 modules. 6 tutors. A dynamic, accessible way to grow as a writer. Module 1 starts 20 Jan 2026. Sign up →
- Our Spring Term is now live & we’ve got a whole host of brilliant tutors & poetry courses lined up, so be sure to book promptly to avoid disappointment. Our handy Quick Course Guide is linked in bio, where you’ll find everything you’ll need to know… poetryschool.com/new-courses/... 🪻🌜
- Richard Price, Natasha Hakimi Zapata (@natashakimiz.bsky.social), Kathryn Simmonds, Becky Varley-Winter, Astrid Alben (@astridalben.bsky.social), Kit Griffiths, Lynn Davidson, Romalyn Ante (@romalynante3.bsky.social), Elizabeth Parker.
- ✍️ How Poets Navigate Plagiarism, Consent, and Authorship Sarah Hesketh explores how poets handle real voices, collaboration, and ethics — from inspiration to ownership — and where creative freedom meets responsibility. 🔗 poetryschool.com/the...
- 🧱 Class, Work and the Politics of Poetry Ruth Beddow asks who really gets to write — and how class, time, and labour shape the poetry we make. A powerful reflection on access, identity, and creativity in a working world. 🔗 poetryschool.com/the...
- 🎶 Why Understanding Music Can Improve Your Poetry Writing Tristram Fane Saunders explores how rhythm, melody, and musical thinking can deepen your craft — making poems sing on and off the page. 🔗 poetryschool.com/the...
- 🌸 Spring Term Launch! 🌙 Our new programme drops Thu 6 Nov, 10.30am (GMT) — get online early, courses sell fast! Tutors incl. @jesstraynor.bsky.social, @aanaxagorou.bsky.social & Fran Locke. ✨ Highlights: AI & writing, hoax poetics, moon cycles, menopause & more. #Poetry #WritingCommunity
- In our Forward Prizes 2025 How I Did It series, Isabelle Baafi reflects on writing ‘Piggy’ from her debut Chaotic Good — a contrapuntal poem born from horror, double consciousness & the search for truth. Read her story: poetryschool.com/how...
- How do poets write for children? ✨ In our latest blog, Kathryn Simmonds shares how to captivate young readers through rhythm, surprise, & collaboration with illustrators — plus tips for poets curious about picture books. Read more: poetryschool.com/how...
- Mimorian began as an experiment — I joined a Spanish-language poetry class after 10 years away from the language. Through Carlos Drummond’s Resíduo, I found a way to write about memory, loss & what little of us remains. From that, Heirloom grew. poetryschool.com/how...
- Huge congratulations to Katrina Porteous, who is the 2025 Laurel Prize winner. 🌿
- Laurel Prize ceremony live-stream starting now: 💻: poetryschool.com/lau...
- Laurel Prize ceremony live-stream starting in 30 minutes, at 5.30pm (BST) 💻: poetryschool.com/lau...
- Laurel Prize ceremony live-stream starting today at 5.30pm (BST) 💻: poetryschool.com/lau...
- 📢 We’re hiring! The Poetry School is seeking a Marketing & Communications Manager (Maternity Cover) to join our team for 12 months. £30k FTE | Hybrid (London/Leeds + home). 🗓️ Apply by Mon 6 Oct, 9am 🔗 Full details: poetryschool.com/ope...
- Katrina Porteous – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface 🌍 On Rhizodont: “These poems grow from years of thinking about my coastal home, science, and the voices of community projects. They weave together landscape, people, and place.” 🔗 Full piece: poetryschool.com/lau...
- Eliza O’Toole – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface 🌍 On A Cranic of Ordinaries (@shearsmanbooks): “99% of writing is thinking. My practice is a lifetime of voluminous reading—law, botany, philosophy, etymologies—all percolating into poetry.” 🔗 Full piece: poetryschool.com/lau...
- Carol Watts – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface 🌍 On Mimic Pond: “Poetry has always been a place I go to. From childhood rhythms of prayer + countryside, through Wordsworth, Clare, Riley + Niedecker—poems began to pour out in sequences.” 🔗 Full piece: poetryschool.com/lau...
- 🌍 Announcing our 2025 Laurel Poet-in-Residence! We’re thrilled to welcome Manisha Dhesi, who will join the Laurel Prize weekend + write a commissioned eco-themed poem.
- JR Carpenter – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface 🌍 On Measures of Weather: “Writing is noticing + noting. Rocks, seeds, photos—all count as notes. The space between noticing + noting is where the real writing happens.” 🔗 Full piece: poetryschool.com/lau... Winner live Fri 19 Sept, 5.30pm BST
- Judith Beveridge – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface 🌍 On her collection Tintinnabulum (@giramondobooks.bsky.social): “I don’t start with an idea—the poem emerges from small things, a birdcall, a phrase, a run of syllables.” 🔗 poetryschool.com/lau... | Winner live Fri 19 Sep, 5.30pm BST
- Starting out in poetry? 🌱 Explore our Autumn 2025 courses for beginners & emerging poets. Find your voice + join a vibrant community. 👉 poetryschool.com/the...
- 🌿 50% off Global Majority Writing from the British Countryside — a new online poetry masterclass with Louisa Adjoa Parker, starting Sept 2025. Details & booking →
- 📚 Katrina Naomi @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social on How to Get Your Poetry Published + details of her Oct 2025 course What Makes a Collection? → poetryschool.com/the...
- 🍂 New Autumn 2025 poetry courses: sonnets, form, feedback & advanced workshops. Explore & book here →
- ✒️ Stav Poleg on Writing After Rimbaud — how reading the greats can transform your poetry. Read the blog → poetryschool.com/the...
- 🔥 New advanced poetry courses for Autumn 2025 — masterclasses, seminars & workshops for serious writers. Explore & apply here → poetryschool.com/the...
- 🌍 New on the Poetry School blog: Elizabeth Torres (Madam Neverstop) on writing about the climate crisis, eco-poetics & poetry as survival. Read here → poetryschool.com/how...
