The National Poetry Competition 2025 online readings are taking place tomorrow! Sign up via the link in our bio for a FREE evening of brilliant readings from our top ten winning poets, and previous winners including Mark Pajak, Imogen Wade, and Fawzia Muradali Kane. Tuesday 31 March, 7PM BST

Happy to see a shout-out to our brand new #PoetryByHeart 4+ timeline anthology in The Poetry Society's Poetry News! These new materials will help young school pupils discover the joy of speaking poetry out loud ❤️ poetrybyheart.org.uk/timeline/4plus

Very chuffed to have been chosen as a winner for this @poetrysociety.org.uk members’ competition. Very chuffed to have made Clare Pollard snort-laugh. Whole thing and other winners and some Poetry News that isn’t about me me me at poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/the-bo...

Nice to see this news piece about our recent eco-poetry project with poets @mattabbottpoet.com & Cassandra Parkin, schools in Rotherham and green engineering firm AESSEAL! www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/news/people/...

Come on down! 25 April. It's free and you don't need to book ahead. But if you do book in advance, you'll be entered into a prize draw for a chance to win a £50 spending spree at the book fair. poetrysociety.org.uk/event/free-v...

Calling all young poets: only two weeks left to enter our latest writing challenge! 🎨 The challenge: write a poem inspired by colour. We can’t wait to read your colourful poems! Head to bit.ly/YPNColourCha... for prompts from poet & visual artist Sophie Herxheimer.

Very happy to have been longlisted in the 2025 National Poetry Competition 🙂 Over 21000 entries so down to the last 100 feels like an achievement👍

A rather nice surprise when you wake up to find one of your poems highly commended in the National Poetry Competition!

Given over 21,000 entries I'm grateful and still staggered in equal measure to be among the poets longlisted in the @poetrysociety.org.uk National Poetry Competition. Congratulations to all and thanks to the organisers and judges for shining a light on poets we may otherwise miss. #poetrycommunity

Congratulations to @carolebromley.bsky.social and Stephen Keeler, both of the York Stanza group, for being longlisted in this year's National Poetry Competition!

A pleasure to be in the Spring 2026 issue of Poetry News - the newspaper of The Poetry Society. #poetry #history

Attention focused on Partridge Boswell's fine winning poem in press coverage of the National Poetry Competition. I want to draw some attention to the excellent second and third winners -- I posted Damien O'Brien's 'Axe' earlier and here's Zoe Dorado's 'Badminton' and Denise Saul's comments on it.

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 🫶🏼.

I’m very moved by this poem by Abigail Dembo from the latest Poetry Review from @poetrysociety.org.uk which came today.

Calling all young poets based in the South West: catch us at Plymouth Poetry Festival this April! Young Poets Takeovers are a space for up-and-coming young poets and performers to meet one another and share their work on stage. Tickets are free, but booking is essential: bit.ly/PlymouthTakkeover

Another round of applause to all our fantastic winners of the #nationalpoetrycompetition 2025! - you can read the winning poems at poetrysociety.org.uk/competitions...

Many thanks to @poetrysociety.org.uk for running this amazing competition for nearly five decades.

English doctoral researcher and poet Michael Brown has been longlisted for the National Poetry Competition run by @poetrysociety.org.uk. Many congratulations, Michael!

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

Damen O'Brien is the Second Prize winner of the National Poetry Competition 2025 for 'Axe'.

Zoe Dorado is the Third Prize winner of the National Poetry Competition 2025 for 'Badminton'.

Kate Wakeling is a Commended prize winner of the National Poetry Competition 2025 for 'The Visitors'.

Jane Ord is a Commended prize winner of the National Poetry Competition 2025 for 'Tender Hands'.

Jim McElroy is a Commended prize winner of the National Poetry Competition 2025 for 'Coming of Age'.

Alex Mankowitz is a Commended prize winner of the National Poetry Competition 2025 for 'Descension'.

Jade Angeles Fitton is a Commended prize winner of the National Poetry Competition 2025 for 'SAMO'.

Mark Fiddes is a Commended prize winner of the National Poetry Competition 2025 for 'Year of the Crayfish'.

Free event! 🎭 Shakespeare, Youth & The Secret to Human Happiness 📍 Shakespeare North, Prescot 📅 1 April The event is part of Arts4Us, an Edge Hill Uni project examining arts therapies to support children's mental health. We're glad to partner on it! shakespearenorthplayhouse.co.uk/event/shakes...

Congratulations to the National Poetry Competition longlist! Everyone on the longlist wrote a poem that stood out to the judges, Susannah Dickey, Ian Duhig and Denise Saul, out of over 21,000 other works. Well done to all of our longlisted poets!

Congratulations to the National Poetry Competition longlist! Everyone on the longlist wrote a poem that stood out to the judges, Susannah Dickey, Ian Duhig and Denise Saul, out of over 21,000 other works. Well done to all of our longlisted poets!

Congratulations to the National Poetry Competition longlist! Everyone on the longlist wrote a poem that stood out to the judges, Susannah Dickey, Ian Duhig and Denise Saul, out of over 21,000 other works. Well done to all of our longlisted poets!

Congratulations to the National Poetry Competition longlist! Everyone on the longlist wrote a poem that stood out to the judges, Susannah Dickey, Ian Duhig and Denise Saul, out of over 21,000 other works. Well done to all of our longlisted poets!

In case you missed it: you can now read (and listen to!) the winners of the Sonnet Challenge on Young Poets Network! Earlier this year, we challenged young poets worldwide to tackle the sonnet. Head to bit.ly/SonnetChallenge to read (and listen to!) the winning poems.

Museum of Youth Culture soon to open its doors! We ran a poetry challenge with the musuem a couple of years ago on @youngpoetsnet.bsky.social Read the winning poems here ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/workshop/her...

Our new Young Poets Network anthology, The earth that whispers at my feet, out in the wild! The anthology contains winning poems from a series of eco-poetry challenges we've run with People Need Nature. All the poems were written by young people aged <25. Online version at bit.ly/EarthThatWhispers

Happy World Poetry Day 🌍 To celebrate, we're giving away FREE access to our digital archive of The Poetry Review, so everyone can read some of the finest in modern poetry from round the globe. Until noon (GMT) on Thursday 26th March, you can access the archive at the link in our bio.

Poetry Society President Roger McGough's archive has a new home at Liverpool University www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Internet chaos + comedy writing = the perfect combo 😅📱 Join award-winning author Nathanael Lessore @hotkeybooks.bsky.social at #DeptfordLitFest for a writing session on comedy in teen fiction, perfect for readers + aspiring writers ages 12+ 📚 Book: www.londonwriterscentre.org.uk/our-events/w...

Teachers and poet-educators! Join our next Cloud Chamber CPD session on Tues 24 March, 4-5pm on Zoom. Poet Rachel Piercey will be talking about the Poetry Jam Jar, a simple tool you can use to inspire students to write creatively & collaboratively. Free to attend. Info ➡️ bit.ly/CloudChamberPoetry

New Key Stage 3 learning resource on poetry, ponds & #biodiversity! Download for free bit.ly/PondBeats3 Created by poet Oliver James Lomax, sound artist Ryan Woods & illustrator Sophie Anson, the resource includes a poem by Simon Armitage, pond listening exercises & creative writing activities.

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!

We're thrilled to announce the winners of the Sonnet Challenge on Young Poets Network! We challenged young poets worldwide to tackle one of the oldest forms of poetry out there: the sonnet. Head to ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk to read (and listen to!) the winners, including Saskia's '25-metre sonnet.'

Open call! One Word Workshop have launched As I Said, a workshop project & exhibition exploring poetry as a way of speaking about art. We’re pleased to support it by hosting workshops & an exhibition this summer. If you're aged >18 & interested in taking part head to bit.ly/OneWordOpenCall

It's #workshop evening tomorrow for @poetryid.bsky.social, the N. Herts stanza of the @poetrysociety.org.uk We will write to a previously undisclosed prompt (except me; I'm providing the prompt). #poetry #poets #poetrycommunity

Well done to all the young poets who wowed us with their poems on climate change at today's Imagining a Greener Future poetry showcase in Rotherham! Thank you to project partner AESSEAL, the 5 local schools who took part, host @mattabbottpoet.com & #FoyleYoungPoet and guest reader Nathan Graham.

Happy International Women's Day! To celebrate, here are extracts from some incredible poems we've published celebrating exceptional women, whether they be historical, mythical, or familial.

New Key Stage 2 learning resource on poetry, ponds & biodiversity! Download for free bit.ly/PondBeats2 Created by @domconlon.bsky.social sound artist Ryan Woods & illustrator Sophie Anson, the resource includes original poems by Dom, pond listening exercises & creative writing activities.

It's your last chance to enter the Free Verse Prize! The competition closes tomorrow (Friday 6th March) at midnight, so be in with a chance of winning £500 and having your work published in Poetry News, send us your poems via the link in our bio.

Happy #WorldBookDay! Our brilliant Poets in Schools are delivering workshops and assemblies to thousands of young people across England this week. Interested in booking a poet to visit your school? Fill in our enquiry form and get in touch with our Education team at bit.ly/PoetsInSchools