The Poetry Society
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A charitable organisation promoting and advocating poets & poetry since 1909. Publishes #ThePoetryReview. Also @youngpoetsnet, @poetryeducation & @poetrycafeldn
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Academy of American Poets
Poem-a-Day, #NationalPoetryMonth & more, celebrating 90 years as the nation's leading champion of poets, poetry, and the work of poetry organizations.
Dr Kim Moore
She/Her 'All the Men I Never Married', 'The Art of Falling' (SerenBooks)'What The Trumpet Taught Me' (@poetrybusiness) agent: @chriswellbelove
Ian Duhig FRSL
'New & Selected Poems' a Guardian & Irish Times Poetry Book of the Year, Observer & TLS Book of the Year & winner of the 2022 Hawthornden Prize for Literature.
Caroline Bird
Poet & playwright. Selected Poems, ‘Rookie’ out now from Carcanet: https://t.co/ys06Wwxz7U. Winner of The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020
Poetry Daily
Poetry Daily presents a poem each day from new books and journals, along with poetry news, announcements, and more. Est. 1997.
📢Poets!
Civil Society Consulting CIC are running a poetry challenge under the theme of togetherness! ✨
There are cash prizes and the chance to connect with poets like Shasta 💙, Aminah and Pascale Petit FRSL🐅🌴🐆🌳🦌 through workshops.
Find out more 👇
togethernesspoetrychallenge.org
Attention poets! Applications for our new poet-in-residence role have now closed with a whopping 163 received. We and our The Poetry Society colleagues will now begin the difficult task of shortlisting from what was an extremely high quality field. Watch this space #CityBridgePoet
Bumper bookfair haul from The Poetry Society's Free Verse fair ✨ incl Bad Betty Press Broken Sleep Books Sidekick Books Astra ☾ Kim Vousden Ivy Alvarez @earthboundpress ceri amphlett plus the The Emma Press catalogue (I wanted them all)
Full list on this week's piprowson.substack.com
Happy #EarthDay24 .
'for that oak to stretch over
land and sea until its branches could keep
every single season within their fold.'
from 'Beatitude (For those who shall inherit the earth)' by Maggie Wang: poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/beatitud…
An amazing day at Free Verse in London yesterday!!! Big thanks to The Poetry Society for organising it and everyone who came along to buy books and stop for a chat - still high on poetry this morning!
Happy #NaPoWriMo !
The challenge to write a poem every day of April is well underway and to help you on your journey The Poetry Society will be providing a prompt each day - today's is from Cia Mangat!
More resources here: bit.ly/NaPoWriMo24
An amazing day on the Pindrop stall The Poetry Society #FreeVerse with fellow poets Alex Josephy & Sujatha Menon! We sold shedloads, caught up with as many friends, bought too much ourselves & Su rounded off the day with a brilliant reading from her forthcoming Microscopia!
My haul from a very poetry-indulgent day spent browsing the tables of The Poetry Society #FreeVerse . It was lovely chatting & catching up with the editors of Dunlin Press Blueprint Poetry Press Hercules Editions #VanguardEditions & V. Press. More books to add to my ever-growing stacks ☺️😆
Books of delights! Sidekick Books Pamenar Press Carcanet Press Hercules Editions Broken Sleep Books Magma Poetry Butcher's Dog Publishing fourteenpoems Out-Spoken & Green Bottle Press. Excited to complete my Birdbook set as I'm in BB3. Also re-joined PoetryBookSoc Free Verse The Poetry Society
Necessary pic of the #FreeVerse The Poetry Society sackful - fab reading from Claire Dyer Richard Skinner Dr. Kate Noakes & Hercules Editions (you’ll be so much missed), Gravy from Tristram Fane Saunders & much anticipated new Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal (via #VanguardEditions) oh, and SCRATCHCARDS from Astra ☾ !
Some of my swag from Free Verse 2024, cannot wait to get stuck into these two, but deadlines (and #NaPoWriMo ) first… treats later.
Although I will miss not having Sam J. Grudgings incomparable delivery for his collection.
Thank you The Poetry Society for an electric event full to the rafters with creative conversation #FreeVerse2024
'Knightsbridge stormed by poets': thank you The Poetry Society for hosting a superb and very busy Free Verse Poetry Book Fair in a spacious, light-filled venue
my The Poetry Society #FreeVerse trolley dash. excellent panel chats and very lovely to see so many friends and former colleagues there. there's a tight venn diagram cross-over between the two groups
I have a lot to think (and write about) today. Thank you to everyone I met yesterday at Free Verse in London: GRAVY Dr Jo Clement Mark Coverdale 🇺🇦 Zena Edwards Jen Feroze 💙 LongPoemMag Julie Hogg Dunlin Press and thank you to The Poetry Society for organizing.
