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​

Fabulous December gathering of @harlowstanza.bsky.social last night - the theme was “Reflection” and this was my offering

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.🐐⭐

Remembrance Day 2025: I have always believed the importance of Remembrance Day is the legacy we leave for the next generation. The baton of “never again” passed on with love and hope, however fragile that might be. This is the poem my 17 year old daughter Emily Beckett wrote. We Will Remember Them.

📣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

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! 💛