✨ There's just THREE DAYS left to enter our Poetry Prize 2024 ✨

First Prize: £500
Second Prize: £300
Third Prize: £200

All three prize winners will appear in The London Magazine.

Enter here: thelondonmagazine.org/the-london-mag…

Carcanet Press Yvonne Reddick Bloodaxe Books Jo Bell - The Poetic Licence Nine Arches Press WritingWestMidlands Manchester Writing School School of English - University of Leeds Scottish Book Trust The Poetry Society Young Poets Network The Poetry SocietyNY Apples and Snakes ArtfulScribe Poet in the City ALL our zoom workshops in the series [22 all told, tues 7-9pm from May7-Nov 26] have limited spaces and can be bought in bundles with discounts (£12 off for 3, £30 off for 6) incl Clare Pollard Rachel Long Picador Books Helen Mort Chatto&Windus & many more. eventbrite.com/cc/verve-poetr…

Clare Pollard Bloodaxe Books Pascale Petit FRSL🐅🌴🐆🌳🦌 Yvonne Reddick Spread the Word THEN on 14 May Rachel Long Picador Books runs a workshop on how applying elements of 'the party' to your practice can take your poetry in wonderful new directions. eventbrite.com/cc/verve-poetr…😍

Our Summer Term is now live & we’ve got a whole host of brilliant tutors & courses lined up, so be sure to book promptly to avoid disappointment. Below is our handy Quick Course Guide, where you’ll find everything you’ll need to know…🍓🍒

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Our 2024 judging panel includes Declan Ryan, Kathryn Bevis (Kathryn Bevis), and Rachel Long (@rachelnalong).

‘Today I want to resolve nothing’

New Years Day by Kim Addonizio (thanks and love to Rachel Long for introducing me to this poem)

Rachael Allen's new essay brilliantly explores class, prejudice & the lack of imaginative freedom in publishing - the way in which the 'general reader' is patronisingly imagined by those blind to working class complexity.

Read in the wonderful TL/TH.

tlth.co.uk/difficultandbad

✨WORKSHOP TOMORROW✨

Writing Poems with Rachel Long (Rachel Long)
Tues 5th Dec, 11am
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Rachel’s collection My Darling from the Lions was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. She is the founder of Octavia Poetry Collective.

Our Spring Term is now live & we’ve got a whole host of brilliant tutors & courses lined up, so be sure to book promptly to avoid disappointment. Below is our handy Quick Course Guide, where you’ll find everything you’ll need to know…🌸🪱

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Cannot wait to begin my manuscript consultation under the brilliant counsel of Rachel Long. Feel only good things can come...

This essay by Jenisha Watts just floored me. There are so many ways we make our life, and so many ways it could have been different if we allowed it to only be made by others. Thank you for this courageous, honest, necessary piece. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Come write, read and workshop your peers poems with me on a *brand new* Advanced Poetry Workshop with special guests Poetry School 💫✨🌟⭐️💫

It’s on! What a pleasure to pour a glass and listen to a programme that was such a pleasure to record with Roger Mcgough Poetry Please BBC Radio 4 Thank you eliza lomas xx

📻This afternoon at 4.30pm, listen in to BBC Radio 4 to hear poet Rachel Long's poem selection, for the final episode of this series.

Expect delights from Kim Addonizio, Gboyega Odubanjo, Emily Dickinson, kei miller, Sarah Howe & more. 👇👇👇bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

#Poetry Poetry Please
Rachel Long
Poetry Please
Sunday 16:30
BBC Radio 4
Rachel Long joins Roger Mcgough to make a selection of listener requests, from Kei Miller to Morgan Parker, Emily Dickinson to Gboyega Odubanjo.
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1. For the poets out there, the Poetry London Poetry Prize is judged by Rachel Long, and has a top prize of £5000! Entry fee: £10 (£5 for Poetry London subscribers; limited free entries available for low-income writers). Deadline: 30th June. poetrylondon.co.uk/prize/

Don't miss 'Notes on Compassion' Southbank Centre on Sun 25 Jun!

Marking the 25th year of Refugee Week, the event has a great line-up, including poets such as Vanessa Kisuule, Rachel Long Rachel Long, Momtaza Mehri momtaza mehri 💆🏾‍♀️ & Sukina Noor.

Info: southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/liter…

So, I’m very excited to have been invited by eliza lomas to curate a ‘poetry playlist’ for #PoetryPlease on BBC Radio 4 with the legend that is Roger Mcgough. I want this to be a wide & wild & brilliant list, so please send me your most favourite poem requests here, in my replies!