Foyle Young Poets Award
Congratulations to the winners of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2025!| The Poetry Society
Congratulations to the winners of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2025!| The Poetry Society
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The Poetry Society been made aware of an attempted phishing scam in circulation, falsely claiming to be from The Poetry Society. The email comes from a gmail address offering the […]| The Poetry Society
To help you get to know your judges for the 2025 National Poetry Competition, we’ve asked each one to participate in a visual Q&A. The National Poetry Competition closes at […]| The Poetry Society
The Poetry Society has announced the top 15 winners and 85 commended poets in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2025, funded by The Foyle Foundation, at a special celebration at The British Library, London. Friends, family, poets and educators got to be the first to discover the next generation of poets as they listened to readings from the Foyle Young Poets Award’s top 15 writers, heard reflections from the judges and celebrated the best poems written by young people aged 11–17 fro...| The Poetry Society
In 2024, 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, 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 unfolded.| The Poetry Society
Theme 1: Individual Actors – Generating better understanding of individuals’ engagement with nature (‘personalised ecologies’) to improve the effectiveness of methods used to develop public support for large-scale biodiversity renewal. Read more| The Poetry Society
The Poetry Society has been teaming up with researchers at the University of Exeter to find ways of engaging communities with bogs and peatlands through the ‘Bog Talk’ project. Bog Talk, funded by Natural England, is part of Exeter University’s RENEW partnership programme, which is working to encourage biodiversity in the UK. One of the communities we’re engaging with is children and young people. Primary-school pupils from Plymouth have taken part in workshops with professional poets...| The Poetry Society
The Poetry Society has a long history of championing poetry as a means to explore our relationship with the natural world. We provide resources to schools, profile environmental work on Young Poets Network, and work with environmental organisations and academic institutions to raise awareness about climate change and biodiversity.| poetrysociety.org.uk
The ten shortlisted collections for this year’s T. S. Eliot Prize were announced yesterday. The 2025 shortlist is: Isabelle Baafi‘s Chaotic Good (Faber & Faber); Tom Paulin‘s Namanlagh (Faber & […]| The Poetry Society
The Poetry Society is delighted to announce on National Poetry Day 2025 that Marilyn Longstaff of the Durham Tees Valley Stanza (Rep) is the winner of the 2025 Stanza Poetry […]| The Poetry Society
Happy National Poetry Day! This year’s National Poetry Day is on the theme of ‘Play’ and to celebrate, The Poetry Society has an array of activities throughout the day including […]| The Poetry Society
The Members’ Competition sets Poetry Society Members the task of writing a poem or poems on a theme chosen by a leading poet. | The Poetry Society
The acclaimed poet, playwright, novelist and essayist m nourbeSe philip will give the third and final lecture in the Annual Lecture Series 2021, presented by The Poetry Society and University of Liverpool’s Centre for New and International Writing. In a fascinating exchange, fellow poet and playwright Dzifa Benson talks to philip about her astonishing book-length poem Zong!, story, silence and her lecture, ‘Small Islands Long Poems, or the (un)Epic of Small in the Spiralling Memory of Hi...| The Poetry Society
The Autumn 2025 issue of Poetry News introduces the judges for the 2025 National Poetry Competition, and celebrates Colette Hiller as winner of the 2025 CLiPPA. Tim Relf investigates the power […]| The Poetry Society
The Poetry Society and T.S. Eliot Prize are delighted to announce the cohort of reviewers who will take part in the fourth instalment of the Young Critics Scheme. The ten […]| The Poetry Society
The Poetry Society is proud to be a part of A New Direction’s Primary Arts programme, bringing live poetry performances and workshops to primary schools and SEND settings in London. […]| The Poetry Society
The Leicester Poetry Committee is delighted to announce the appointment of Mr. Shay as the city’s first Poet Laureate. This newly established role, created by a consortium of Leicester’s leading poetry and spoken word organisations – Literati Arts, Get Mouthy, Queer Coffee Link Ups, Pinggg…k!, Some-antics, and We Are The Headliners – represents a milestone in the city’s ongoing commitment to celebrating and elevating poetry in all its forms. The Poetry Society has been working...| The Poetry Society
Just like that, the Sealey Challenge has come to another thrilling end. Set up by Nicole Sealey, the challenge is an invitation to read a poetry book (or pamphlet) every day for the whole month of August. To support the challenge and encourage wider reading of poetry, The Poetry Society asked poets, including contributors to The Poetry Review and recent Poetry Society competition winners, to recommend texts for people to read each day. The full list is a celebration of a world of poems, poe...| The Poetry Society
The Poetry Society is delighted to have poet Leo Boix join our list of tutors available for the 1-2-1 Feedback Sessions. Leo will be offering a choice of online sessions […]| The Poetry Society
The Poetry Society is delighted to announce the winners of Young Poets Network’s recent challenge in partnership with Modern Poetry in Translation.| The Poetry Society
A poem commissioned for Milton Keynes International Festival in partnership with The Poetry Society will be written out in light tonight and tomorrow (Thursday 24 and Friday 25 July), and […]| The Poetry Society
The Poetry Society and the T. S. Eliot Prize are delighted to open applications for a fourth year of the highly praised Young Critics Scheme. This partnership programme offers ten emerging poetry reviewers […]| The Poetry Society
Apply for this year’s Scheme via this online form by noon on Monday 18 August. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted by 6pm on Friday 22 August. We will then organise […]| The Poetry Society
The workshops will take place over Zoom from 6-8pm on Monday evenings. You must be able to attend all sessions to take part. Workshop 1: Monday 6 October Workshop 2: […]| The Poetry Society
To be eligible to take part, you must be: The workshops will focus on critical writing around poetry. You don’t need any previous reviewing experience to take part, nor do […]| The Poetry Society
The Young Critics Scheme will offer you the chance to develop your skills in reviewing, creating video content, and writing for publication. You’ll attend a series of intensive online workshops […]| The Poetry Society
Camden Young Writers is The Poetry Society’s latest opportunity for local young writers in the London borough of Camden. This free programme will introduce a group of young people to the skills they’ll need in any creative career.| poetrysociety.org.uk
We are committed to supporting poets at every stage of their career – many now established poets began taking part in our events and competitions as children, through teenage years and into adulthood. Our Young Poets Network, and events for emerging poets mean that you always have access to advice and company as you develop your craft.| The Poetry Society
The Poetry Society is teaming up with researchers at the University of Exeter to find ways of engaging communities with bogs and peatlands through the ‘Bog Talk’ project. Bog Talk, funded by Natural England, is part of Exeter University’s RENEW partnership programme, which is working to encourage biodiversity in the UK. | poetrysociety.org.uk
