Winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature - joelle taylor was fabulous in Cambridge last night, exploring difficult themes with bravery and synergy 💪

Check Joelle out if you haven't yet...
Her work is rousing and poignant 😘👍

#WritingCommunity

SO excited to announce our 2024 shortlists for
1. Jhalak Prize
and
2. Jhalak C&YA Prize

Congratulations to all our shortlistees!
#jhalakprize 24 #jhalakprize

🌿✍️ Are you a published writer w/a passion for nature? 📝 Nature Calling seeks writers to explore England's breathtaking landscapes! 🏞️ Share your connection w/Chilterns, Dorset, Forest of Bowland, Lincolnshire Wolds, Mendip Hills, or Surrey Hills! More: shorturl.at/pvRY4

We need young people to tell us what they think of #PoetryByHeart . If you're a young person who's entered the competition, please fill in this short survey. #Teachers & #librarians who run the competition, please share. There are gold badges as thank yous! ow.ly/bVAx50R6wKh

The second #JamesBerryPoetryPrize is now open for submissions.  Launched in 2021, it is Britain’s first and only poetry prize offering both expert mentoring and book publication for young or emerging poets of colour.

Full details here: bloodaxebooks.com/news?articleid…

NCLA

We're back in ten days with a stellar line-up of poets and musicians! ✨

📅 Thur 25 April
🕝 7.45pm
📍Purcell Room, Southbank Centre
🧏 BSL interpreted
🎟️ £12 southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/liter…

3 weeks until #SSTPoetryPrize2024 launches on 1 May!
'One of the most exciting things about the Stephen Spender Prize is the extent to which poetry translation is an extremely creative process.'
Read @CROBmagazine's conversation with Rosie Eyre!
MMLL Cambridge Queen's Translation Exchange

Melanie Banim is a member of Southbank Centre's New Poets Collective, who are celebrating 30 years of the T. S. Eliot Prize by reading from the first 30 winning collections! Melanie is reading here from Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy.
Watch more videos now: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Register to let us know you're coming to Free Verse Poetry Book and Magazine Fair on 20 April, and we'll enter you into a prize draw to win a £50 spending spree at the Fair.

poetrysociety.org.uk/event/free-ver…

🤓Tickets are on sale for Newcastle Poetry Festival 2024! #NPFP24 📚Please join us for 3 days of readings, panels, workshops, commissions, performances and school events 9-11 May Northern Stage Newcastle University

Booking info here 🎫newcastlepoetryfestival.co.uk

Wonderful line-up for this year's Newcastle Poetry Festival, 9-11 May, incl. events with Carolyn Forché, Marjorie Lotfi, Imtiaz Dharker, John Challis, #FleurAdcock , T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted poets Jane Clarke & Abigail Parry, plus Georgian poet Diana Anphimiadi & her translators.

The technical glitch has been finally resolved. My lecture 'All people must be able to write about the birds: Poetry and the sensorium of catastrophe', at StAnza Poetry, is now available for folks who want to watch: byretheatre.com/shows/jason-al…

Luigi Coppola is a member of Southbank Centre's New Poets Collective, who are celebrating 30 years of the T. S. Eliot Prize by reading from the first 30 winning collections! Luigi is reading from White Egrets by Derek Walcott. Find more videos here: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Finally got around to this wonderful documentary. Highly recommend if you have any interest in poetry (Irish/Caribbean or otherwise) congrats to all contributors including BRAN Poetry

We're a day late for #WorldPoetryDay but we have wonderful poetry news. Jason Allen-Paisant will be at #WCLF2024 on 19 July to read from Self-Portrait As Othello (Forward Prize for Best Collection & T.S. Eliot Prize 2023). This exciting event is in association in Poetry Ireland

Kaz Reeves is a member of Southbank Centre's New Poets Collective, who are celebrating 30 years of the T. S. Eliot Prize by reading from the first 30 winning collections! Kaz is reading from God's Gift to Women by Don Paterson.
Find more videos here: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Jason was co-commissioned by MLF & MCR Art Gallery to create new work inspired by garments & paintings in their collection. Enjoy ‘Boasty.’
vimeo.com/925508948

Also for #WorldPoetryDay , we’re thrilled to share the first of 3 sublime new poems by T. S. Eliot Prize Forward Prizes winner Jason Allen-Paisant.👇

New Poets Collective–Easter Extra Courses! 🍋🌻

In addition to our Summer programme, we are running a series of exciting courses taught by fresh voices from Southbank Centre's New Poets Collective. Have a look at the below to see this fantastic lineup!

poetryschool.com/new-courses/ne…

Deadline is midnight tonight - 18 March to enter a poem to The Poetry Society’s Free Verse book fair prize! Judge Chrissy Williams can’t wait to read your poem!