Is everyone getting excited for National Poetry Day tomorrow?? How will you be celebrating? 🥳 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

#MustSee #PoetryID

"This form of poetry gives everyone a voice"... Max Terry Fishel, one of our Poems Not Bombs regulars, speaks out on the delights of the poetry open mic in the Guardian today

So proud that I and other members of our beautiful poetry stanza family will be performing a live acoustic set at Harlow Pride 2025! #HarlowCircleofPoetry #StanzasForPride #HarlowPride #StrongerTogether #CommunityMatters #BigUpHarlow #NationalPoetrySociety

Thanks to all who came along to Past Margins into Wilds: A Malaysia-UK Poetry Showcase last night at The Poetry Cafe! We enjoyed readings from Nina Mingya Powles, Suyin du Bois, Yee Heng Yeh and L Kiew as well as poetry films from the Peat on Earth project - and delicious treats from Makan bakery!

All Our Yesterdays: Harlow 1981 - my monthly blog for Your Harlow.Com www.yourharlow.com/2025/09/25/a...

📢 Happening Today! 🙌🏻🎉🩷 Harlow poets unite! 💪🏻 #ThePoetrySociety #HarlowStanza #PoetryInHarlow #FreeCommunityGroup #CommunityMatters #WritersSupportingWriters #PoetryLovers #PoetryIsForEveryone #PoetryInEssex #HarlowPoetry

On the Dirigible Balloon dirigibleballoon.org you'll find a cornucopia of wonderful poems imagining the future. They're free, they're safe, they'll take you to fantastical places, they'll make you smile, they'll make you think ... what are you waiting for? #PoetryForChildren #ImagineTheFuture

Thanks to Composer of the Week on BBC Radio 3 for introducing me to the beguiling #poetry of Langston Hughes, in an episode on The Harlem Renaissance, presented by Donald Macleod, with contributions from Wynton Marsalis. #booksky www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Gentle reminder that our next stanza meeting is on the 25th September at 17.00-19.00. Our theme - BORDERS and BOUNDARIES. Please see details below 👇🏻 #PoetryStanzas #EssexPoetryStanzas #WritersSupportingWriters

Gentle reminder that our next stanza meeting is on the 25th September at 17.00-19.00. Our theme - BORDERS and BOUNDARIES. Please see details below 👇🏻 #PoetryStanzas #EssexPoetryStanzas #WritersSupportingWriters

#Teachers #Schools #Families #NationalPoetryDay2025 is coming. This way for high quality, safe, thought provoking, informative and funny poems for key stage 2 and 3 children >>> dirigibleballoon.org #PoetryForChildren #DirigibleBalloon 🎈

We are PROUD to be supporting Harlow Pride this year! Harlow stanza poets we need your poems! Will be making a list of whoever would like to volunteer to read on the 18th of October at our next stanza meeting! #HarlowPride #HarlowCircleofPoetry #HarlowPoetry #EssexPoetry #PridePoetry

The Poetry Society is delighted to present the launch readings for the Autumn 2025 issue of The Poetry Review, edited by Wayne Holloway-Smith, with guest readers Safa Khatib (video), Matthew Dickman, Joelle Taylor, Claudine Toutoungi and Safia Elhillo (video). Reserve your spot via our website! 🎤

The Dirigible Balloon is a free-to-use poetry bank for children, families and schools which is safe, devoid of pop-ups and hosts over 2000 excellent poems from 500 poets worldwide. #Education #Teachers #Poetry Come and see >>> dirigibleballoon.org 🎈

📢Harlow Stanza poets! Our next in house meeting will take place as usual on September the 25th! We have lots to look forward to this autumn, including creating our anthology and also we have been invited to read at Harlow Pride! 🏳️‍🌈 Looking forward to convening and hearing all the poems soon! 💛

How are #poets getting on with this year's @poetrydayuk.bsky.social theme of 'play'?

Our contribution to the joyful national phenomenon that is @poetrydayuk.bsky.social #poetry #poems

We are PROUD to be supporting Harlow Pride this year! Harlow stanza poets we need your poems! Will be making a list of whoever would like to volunteer to read on the 18th of October at our next stanza meeting! #HarlowPride #HarlowCircleofPoetry #HarlowPoetry #EssexPoetry #PridePoetry

📢Harlow Stanza poets! Our next in house meeting will take place as usual on September the 25th! We have lots to look forward to this autumn, including creating our anthology and also we have been invited to read at Harlow Pride! 🏳️‍🌈 Looking forward to convening and hearing all the poems soon! 💛

📚 It's August, which means the #SealeyChallenge is underway! To help you on your journey to read a book every day this month, The Poetry Society has gotten in touch with poets we've recently worked with for some recommendations. Next up is Jonathan Edwards, who is the judge of the 2025 Stanza (...)

This Wednesday 23rd July 7pm BST on Zoom! - come and join us for an unique opportunity to hear international poetry voices from the Poetry Society's Stanza community, featuring readings from Lisbon, Germany and Global Online Stanza Groups. Book now via the link in bio

LOOK! 👁 Our NEXT 'Forest Poets and guests' event is Thu 24 July, at the Trades Hall, Walthamstow, with Lorraine Mariner and Ralph Dartford, plus support from Forest Poets Tusshara Nalakumar Srilatha and Michael Shann. TICKETS 👇 marinerdartford.eventbrite.co.uk

Join us at The Poetry Café or online via Zoom on Wednesday 16 July, 7.00pm - 8.00pm (BST) to celebrate the launch of the Summer 2025 issue of The Poetry Review, edited by Wayne Holloway-Smith, with guest readers Kaveh Akbar (video), Bonnie Hancell, Jacob Polley and Martha Sprackland. 🎤📚

A few weeks ago, our school lost a beautiful family in the Air India flight. I needed to create a legacy for them. After a call out to poetry friends, I was overwhelmed by the response. This anthology is for Amani, Zayn, Mum & Dad. I hope I got it right 💜 www.dreambeastpoems.com/post/bereave...

#mustread Surgery by Noel Cowley @noelcowley.bsky.social

I feel honoured to be in ✨The Starbeck Orion✨ today, amongst so many other wonderful creatives.💠 Thank you Paul Brookes!🙏🏼🙏🏼 @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social 🌌 The 3 poems explore relationships & intimacy. Esmeralda's Gaze, Mother's Tears and Mouthful of Nipple. Hope you enjoy reading them.🤍 #poems

A poem and video of the poem written about a walk up to the top of Scar Fell.

⭐ FREE for Poetry Society members and members of a Poetry Society Stanza! ⭐ Come along to our online International Stanza Bonanza, featuring readings from members of the Global Online Stanza, Germany Stanza and Lisbon Stanza, plus an open mic!

One of the most important poems I have come across... An urgent read! ⚠️ FREEDOM HAS NO WARNING LIGHTS ‼️ By Michael Rosen 🕊️ @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2025/07/free...

Hello #promptcombo #poemsabout crews 👋🏼 Hope you are all having a super week. Sorry I've been largely absent this week – I'm deep in my reading period for @thewingedmoon.bsky.social Biophilia now (working also with @noelcowley.bsky.social). Reminder we are open until 2 July ☺️ xx

Join us for our latest Poetry Review reading group! Dive into the Summer 2025 issue of the Review with fellow poetry enthusiasts and explore the diverse voices and themes that shape contemporary poetry. Led by Poetry Society staff, this interactive reading group will guide you through standout (...)

The literary event of this or any month, year, etc. Poetry ID launch their latest #poetry #anthology at David's Bookshop.

Delighted to be in The Morning Star weekend newspaper today - widely available in supermarkets and newsagents. Huge thanks to the editor Alan Morrison and Culture Matters Also very fitting for #PoemsAbout #ItsASin

THIS IS MY PLAYGROUND 🎍 A poem reflecting upon nature being the most satisfying playground. 🌵🌛🍋‍🟩 First published in THE DIRIGIBLE BALLOON -a joyous, free and inclusive poetry bank for children.🔆 #TheDirigibleBalloon #childrenspoetry #naturepoems #kidlit #kidspoems #poems youtube.com/shorts/RWy1y...

We're pleased to announce two new Stanza groups: one in North Nottinghamshire, and one in Newcastle. Stanza groups are groups run voluntarily by Poetry Society members, and take a variety of forms, including workshops and reading groups. Take a look! poetrysociety.org.uk/membership/p...

So proud of our Harlow Stanza poets-bringing a respectful vibe as always! Last night our theme was- 💥POWER AND CONFLICT💥 We read 3 featured poems& performed our own. THANK YOU to all the contributing poets. Check out John Agard👇🏾whose poem inspired us yesterday. youtu.be/o6YlVszalTU?... #poems

The 2025 National Poetry Competition is now open for entries! This year's judges are Denise Saul, Ian Duhig and Susannah Dickey - find out more about them on our website. The National Poetry Competition offers to winners a first prize of £5,000, a second prize of £3,000, a third prize of ...

Feels like there's a lot to catch up on! Next meet-up is on the 26th! Our theme will be 'power and conflict' during the first half, then we will read from our own poems during the second half. #freepoetryeventsessex #harlowpoetry #harlowcircleofpoetry #essexpoetry #stanzas #letsstrengthenlocalarts

#Hertfordshire #poetry types. Join @poetryid.bsky.social to launch our amazing annual anthology. There is an #openmic (not compulsory). We'll be at the fab David's Bookshop.

#vss365 #realm #prompt A knight from a far distant realm, Bedecked with a shield, sword and helm Fell into our time - And (Oh! such a crime) Was felled by a truck from Dunelm.* *Dunelm Group plc, trading as Dunelm, is a British home furnishings retailer operating in the United Kingdom.

What is lost and gained when we repeat ourselves? If you have ever wanted to write a ghazal, sestina or villanelle, or if you are curious about anaphora, refrains and mirroring, this writing workshop with Isabelle Baafi is for you. bit.ly/BaafiWorkshop

Only a week to go to our reading on Friday 20th June by Olga Dermott-Bond and Sue Wallace-Shaddad in St Michael's Parish Centre, St Albans. It's free and open to all. Sign up on the night (from 7.00 pm), if you want to take part in the open mic.

🌈 Happy Pride Month! Exclusive to Poetry Society members, we have an exciting new book giveaway with Stephanie Burt's Super Gay Poems as the prize. We have three copies to give away to three randomly selected members who email [email protected] by Monday 16 June with the (...)

*Free for Poetry Society members and members of a Poetry Society Stanza!* Come along to our online International Stanza Bonanza, featuring readings from members of the Global Online Stanza, Germany Stanza and Lisbon Stanza, plus an open mic! poetrysociety.org.uk/event/intern...

The new set of Poems on the Underground is here! Did you know you can get your hands on Poems on the Underground posters via The Poetry Society? Head to our online shop to get yours: poetrysociety.org.uk/product-category/poems-on-the-underground/

Tonight we read 'Work Ethic' by Heidi Williamson, 'Elm' by Sylvia Plath & 'Caged Bird' by Maya Angelou. Thank you to everyone for coming and sharing your inspiring poems! You were all so respectful and kind as always. See you next month! Can't wait. 🫶🏻 @poetrysociety.bsky.social

Our lovely new #poetry #anthology drops (am I too old to say that?) next week. Just failed to identify an emoticon representing the joyful anticipation of #poetry.

The Poetry Society presents new poetry from two exciting poets with new collections! Join us at The Poetry Cafe on Monday 9 June to hear Theophilus Kwek read from Commonwealth (Carcanet) and Imogen Cassels read from Silk Work (Prototype). Register at bit.ly/KwekCassels

Join us tomorrow (Wednesday 28th May) for an open-mic evening at the Mad Squirrel Tap in St Albans with featured poet, Neil Beardmore. The event is free and open to all (sign up on the night from 7.00 pm, if you want to read).