A one-to-one feedback session with an established poet offers a relaxed but in-depth analysis of up to 150 lines of your poetry. It’s a unique opportunity to identify strategies for further developing your writing, discuss problems you may be experiencing and look at strategies for taking your work forward. There will be plenty of time […]
Tickets to the live workshop are sold out. Due to high demand we are now offering a limited number of recordings for the workshop Poetry and Desire with Sophie Robinson. The recording will expire on 23:59 on 2nd May 2024. Please note: this is not an automated system. Our office hours are 10-6 Monday-Friday and our […]
The Poetry Book Fair is back! The Poetry Society’s Free Verse Poetry Book and Magazine Fair celebrates the vitality of poetry in the UK – it’s a day of conversation and shopping, an unrivalled opportunity to browse the very best in contemporary poetry publishing and to meet publishers, organisations and poets. What is it? Free Verse is […]
Join us at Free Verse for an exciting panel event and Q&A with three distinguished magazine editors. Ever wondered how a poetry magazine works? Or how editors decide which poems to publish? Want to know what it really takes to set up your own magazine? Come along and find out at this exciting panel discussion, […]
Join us at Free Verse for a brilliant panel event and Q&A with three distinguished poetry editors. Ever wondered how editors choose who they're going to publish? Or how a bunch of disparate poems becomes a collection? Or even how publishers actually get their books printed and distributed? Come along and find out at this […]
Coming to the Free Verse Poetry Book and Magazine Fair? Stick around after the Fair finishes for the Free Verse After Party and Gala Reading, from 19:00 in the main exhibition hall. Drinks will be on sale, publishers and poets will be around for a chat, and there'll be an incredible gala reading featuring poets […]
ignition press poets (l-r: Janine Bradbury, Eira Murphy, and Eric Yip) Join ignitionpress at The Poetry Café as we launch three exciting new pamphlets by Janine Bradbury, Eira Murphy, and Eric Yip. Janine Bradbury is a poet, critic, researcher, and teacher. Her poems have been published by Oxford Poetry, Magma, and the Emma Press. Janine was a […]
Don Mee Choi The Poetry Society Annual Lecture / University of Liverpool Allott Lecture The Poetry Society is delighted to announce that multi-award-winning poet Don Mee Choi will be making a rare visit to the UK to give the 2024 Poetry Society Annual Lecture. This is the latest event in the prestigious Kenneth Allott / […]
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