Over the past year, The Poetry Society has been collaborating with the University of Exeter and the South West Peatland Partnership on the Bog Talk project, funded by Natural England, to encourage education and creative engagement with peatland landscapes. In November 2024, a group of creatives, peat restorers, scientists and archeologists came together for a day’s discussion about bogs in Exeter, followed by a poetry reading. Young Poets Networker Freya Gillard reports on how the day unfol...| Young Poets Network
Stanzas are groups run voluntarily by Poetry Society members — some Stanzas meet to give feedback on each other’s poems in progress, some are poetry reading groups, some run impromptu open mic sessions. To celebrate the diversity of The Poetry Society’s Stanza groups, the new series of Stanza Spotlight Q & As gives a bit more insight into the running of the groups and how people benefit from poetry community in their lives. Next in the series is the Zig Zag Stanza, led by Stanza rep Rac...| The Poetry Society