This is going to be a great night! Free tickets available from @poetrysociety.org.uk for the launch of @fiddes.bsky.social 's new collection Hotel Petroleum. 2nd July at the Poetry Cafe, London. With me & @betarish.bsky.social supporting. Get in quick!
We (the North Herts stanza of the @poetrysociety.org.uk) are delighted to be launching our latest #poetry anthology in David's Bookshop, Letchworth, at 7pm on June 25th. All welcome.
Just over a week until our next online workshop! Claudine Toutoungi will be taking us through poems that bring the abstract and the material, and how to find the song behind the thing. Thurs 25 June, 6.30-8.30pm on Zoom!
Book at poetrysociety.org.uk/event/online...
Poets in Schools is our service for educators looking to bring a facilitator into their school to deliver poetry workshops, lead assemblies, or judge in-school poetry slams.
Book your National Poetry Day visit: bit.ly/PoetsInSchools
Internship opportunity! Have you taken part in our Camden Young Writers project or our poetry & wellbeing project, Steph's Poetry Space? Want to gain some more hands-on arts experience? We're offering week-long paid internships this summer. Find out more at bit.ly/TPSIntern26 and apply by 1 July.
Book launch coming up in the Poetry Cafe!
Victoria Spires
"Ponies decorate the surface like little ornaments.
They are given this word: wild,"
Jonah Corren's poem about wild ponies, 'Semi-feral', was commended in our Young Poets Network 'Earthlings, Building' ecopoetry challenge about multi-species habitats.
poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/semi-f...
Sorry to hear of the death of David Hockney.
Phyllis May's 'Swimming Pool', inspired by Hockney's iconic pool scenes, was commended in the 1985 National Poetry Competition.
Here's the opening. Full poem at poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/swimming-pool
Young poets: new writing challenge alert! Write a poem inspired by the world of dreams for the chance to win poetry prizes and opportunities ☁️
Find prompts and enter by 16 August on Young Poets Network: bit.ly/DreamsYPN
PoetryID
Calling all young poets: only one week left to enter our most curious writing challenge yet!
In our latest writing challenge with Europeana, we’re asking poets aged 5-25 to write curious poems inspired by Europeana’s extensive online archives.
⭐️ Find prompts and enter: bit.ly/CuriosityYPN
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This Friday 5th June at The Poetry Society in London - double launch - Aquafaba by Colin Herd (Spite Press) Get Tae by Nicky Melville (Blue Diode Press) - 18:00 - 20:00.
Full line-up in poster. I’m looking forward to reading new poems! We’ll see you there! 🥳
Link to book here: bit.ly/4oapjPM 
