HAPPY STANZAVERSARY TO US! 🎉 We celebrated our 2 year birthday this eve. Things are getting busy for us, so we are adding an open mic date #thesundayslowdown to our poetic schedule, check out our socials for more info. Thanks as ever to all the poets who came and to @poetrysociety.org.uk 🫶🏼.

Partridge Boswell is the first prize winner of the National Poetry Competition 2025 for 'The Gathering'.

It was an honour serving as a judge for the Harlow Open 2026 together with Imogen Wade. @imogen-wade-poetry.bsky.social Reading the poems over the past few weeks was a beautiful reminder of how much heart is out there! Congrats to all the winners & thank you to the organizers. 🤍 #HarlowPoetry

What an amazing experience to judge the Harlow Open Poetry Competition 2026 with @carmellapoetry.bsky.social, with an award ceremony today at Harlow Playhouse. I also ran community poetry workshops at Harlow Museum. Entries increased since last year, as poetry is a thriving art form in Harlow!

Happy World Poetry Day 2026! 🎉🎉🎉 What better way to celebrate poetry than with a poem about writing itself?! Here is Seamus Heaney and Digging. #WorldPoetryDay #SeamusHeaney #Digging #HarlowCircleofPoetry www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47555/...

Visited a @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social for the first time (London). A lovely space of books, gifts and comestibles, with a huge Lush downstairs.

The Free Verse Poetry Book and Magazine Fair is back for 2026! The event is unticketed and free - but if you want to be in with the chance to win £50 to spend on poetry books at the fair, then you can sign up at the link in our bio. We'd be delighted to see you there!

Happy World Book Day 2026! 🎉🎉🎉 What books are you celebrating today? We are re-visiting some children's classics this afternoon, including 'When We Were Very Young' by #A.A.Milne, 'A Child's Garden of Verse' by #RobertLouisStevenson and 'Where the Sidewalk Ends' by #ShelSilverstein. #WorldBookDay

How is poetry really taught in secondary schools today? We’re mapping the national picture in England. English teachers, your professional insight is essential! 5 minute survey: tinyurl.com/238cz6mu Project supported by Christ Church's Tower Poetry Development Grant​

That's a wrap! 🎉 Happy holidays from the #HarlowCircleofPoetry ❄️ See you in the New Year! 🎊 #harlowpoetry #harlowstanza #essexpoetry

A Sad Fact illicit foods explicitly elicit our complicity #vss365 #illicit #poem

I have become interested in the #waterford recently, a four line #poem of 8,4,4 and 8 syllables, rhyming ABBA. See @waterfordrhyme.bsky.social

📣 Gentle reminder we are meeting today and we can't wait to hear your poems! 🙂 #harlowpoetry #harlowpoets #harlowstanza #harlowcircleofpoetry

A huge thank you to @carmellapoetry.bsky.social and @harlowstanza.bsky.social for reading my poem Scapegoat at the wonderful @HarlowStanza. Really means a lot to me. Huge thanks to all the poets involved @poetrysociety.org.uk Theme was #scapegoats with readings of Robert Graves and Sylvia Plath

Thank you to all who came to our AGM & celebratory readings last night! We were so pleased to be joined by members in the Poetry Cafe and online via Zoom to reflect on a busy 2024-25. Special thanks to Sarah Howe, AV Bridgwood, Marilyn Longstaff & Leena Tageldin, who read their work after the AGM!

A busy week for so many of our Stanzas - brilliant to see so much going on! Thanks to all the reps making this happen

Harlow Stanza unite! @tomspoems.bsky.social reads a unique and mysterious poem inspired by the theme of SCAPEGOATS. Next months theme will be REFLECTIONS! ⭐

Excellent #poetry #workshop tonight with @poetryid.bsky.social - the N. Herts stanza of @poetrysociety.org.uk The theme was 'something returning from the past', and brilliant work was produced.

Fab eve @ Harlow Stanza! Thanks to all the poets for sharing their work! @poetrysociety.org.uk Theme was #scapegoats & we read Robert Graves, Sylvia Plath, Chrystos, @pdevonald.bsky.social & also top readings from @tomspoems.bsky.social @ianbharlow.bsky.social Bex, Tom, Laurie, Tashaney & Howard.🐐⭐

📣Poets of Harlow❗ We are meeting TODAY ❗🎉 #harlowcircleofpoetry #harlowstanza #poetrycommunity

📣 #Poetrylovers of Harlow❕ Next meeting is 27/11/25 Optional theme is #Scapegoats ❕ Free entry, fair use policy applies. #HarlowCircleofPoetry #HarlowPoetry #NationalPoetrySociety #poetrycommunity

Join The Poetry Society for a very Christmassy open mic! Come and see the brilliant John Hegley perform a headline set, and get the chance to read your work at London’s most iconic poetry venue. 🎄 🎁 ❄️ Doors open at 7pm, event starts promptly at 7:30pm. poetrysociety.org.uk/event/the-po...

More tickets have been added to our annual lecture! Given this year by Diane Seuss on 10 November @ 7:00pm GMT via Zoom, the lecture will address an education in poetry from outside the borders of academia, specifically that of a poet from the rural working class.

Lovely evening at #HarlowStanza Our theme was #eclipses ❕🌛 We read 3 featured poems in the 1st half, & in the 2nd, we read from our own. Featured poems sparked inspiring discussions on a variety of topics including #attachmenttheory & how #USpoetry compares to #UKpoetry #HarlowStanza #poetrymatters

📣 Attention Harlow Stanza ❗ Our meeting is TODAY! 🙂🙂 #poetrycommunity #HarlowStanza #HarlowPoetryCommunity

The Autumn Poems on the Underground went live on London Underground and Overground trains for 4 weeks from 20th October. Find out more at poetrysociety.org.uk

My monthly look at Harlow, Essex, UK through our Museum Archives visits October 1963 www.yourharlow.com/2025/10/21/a...

Lovely day reading yesterday at Harlow Pride Festival. Was a lot of work, but worth it! So proud of @harlowstanza.bsky.social ! You were AMAZING,& the feedback we've been getting has been incredible! Thank you to Leigh, Daniel, Sue, Harlow Council, Harlow Rock School & everyone who came to watch! 🙏🏻

Thank you for listening to our poetry readings. We had a lovely time supporting Harlow Pride 2025! 🏳️‍🌈 @poetrysociety.org.uk #HarlowCircleofPoetry #HarlowStanza #Pride #CommunityMatters #LivePoetryPerformances #PoetryCommunity #Oneness

Our 2025 National Poetry Competition poster, as seen in Pages of Hackney, London. The competition closes in TWO WEEKS! Have you entered your poems? 👀 📅 If you've seen a poster in your local bookshop, show us!

Delighted to have work in the group show ‘SEASONS’ at The Addenbrooke’s Gallery/ Hospital, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ 11 October 2025 – 31 January 2026 . Huge thanks to Monica Perez Vega and the Small Works Gallery www.cambridgedrawingsociety.org/.../seasons.... smallworksartgallery.com/.../seasons-...

Taken from my poem New Furnishings first published in To Lay Sun Into A Forest from @sidhepress.bsky.social. Many thanks again ❤️

Come join us and others in supporting Harlow Pride this weekend! Thank you also to @ianbharlow.bsky.social for your beautiful words! Means so much to us! 🫶🏻 #HarlowPride #CommunityMatters #Oneness

📣POETS OF HARLOW ❗ Our next meeting is on 30.10.25 & will be on the theme-ECLIPSES. You may interpret this as you wish...🌝 Please remember that although our stanza is free to attend, we must respect the space that hosts us by buying a refreshment as they are a public cafe. Thank you-WE CAN'T WAIT!🙂

Happy National Poetry Day 2025! 🎉 Here is WENDY COPE reading SPARED. 2001 #NationalPoetryDay #WendyCope #Spared youtu.be/eF_bgmvKJrA?...

Happy National Poetry Day 2025! Here is the profound MICHAEL ROSEN reading FASCISM. #NationalPoetryDay #MichaelRosen #ProfoundPoetry #PoetryMatters @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social youtu.be/Y_J1Htszvac?...

Check out this multi - talented creative and Harlow community champion! 👇🏻

Happy National Poetry Day 2025! 🎉🎉🎉 Here is JOHN AGARD reading CRYBABY PRIME MINISTER #JohnAgard #PoetryLovers #NationalPoetryDay youtu.be/vc0mZrC-BJU?...

Happy National Poetry Day 2025! Here is Sir Ian McKellen reading - On Westminster Bridge, 1802, by William Wordsworth. 🎉 #NationalPoetryDay #WilliamWordsworth youtu.be/WSg0lwa47LY?...

Happy National Poetry Day 2025! How will you be celebrating? 🥳 We will be sharing both classic and contemporary poems throughout the day. Kicking off with EDITH SITWELL and STILL FALLS THE RAIN, 1940 👇🏻 youtu.be/ie8WB6aNjf8?...

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