While our Page Fright project is 10 years old (!) some poems are timeless. The project filmed spoken word poets performing their own work alongside canonical page poems. Hollie McNish read Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade & her poem British National Breakfast www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJw9...

Big thanks to @mattabbottpoet.com whose latest substack is about facilitating poetry for wellbeing, taking inspiration from our schools project, Steph's Poetry Space. Matt picks out some favourite poems & offers great ideas for exercises to do around them mattabbottpoet.substack.com/p/poetry-for...

Congratulations to Sasha Debevec-Mckenney, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize! Sasha's book is Joy Is My Middle Name, from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office...

This year's @poetrybyheart.bsky.social finalists have been announced! 1 in 4 state secondary schools and >1K primary schools took part in 2026! Well done to all entrants and congrats to the pupils & teachers chosen to perform at Shakespeare's Globe in July. poetrysociety.org.uk/news/poetry-...

Congratulations to @poetrybusiness.bsky.social International Book & Pamphlet Competition winners, judged by @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social ! Derval Tubridy for I Will Say That & Tom Weir for Negativity Bias poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions...

Our latest instalment of 'Behind the Poem' is now available ✒️ Poet Shane McCrae discusses the ideas and thought-processes that went into his three most recent poems published in The Poetry Review. Looking for inspiration yourself? Head to our bio to hear from Shane!

It was a pleasure to partner with the National Trust on this layered landscapes challenge on our @youngpoetsnet.bsky.social Well done to winner Ollie McAreavey! "We will be buried in silt, something beautiful will grow and the day will come where children count our rings."

Congrats to all shortlisted for the Poetry Wales Award! ⭐Katie Beswick ⭐Jeanette Burton ⭐Manju Devi ⭐Rajendra Prasad Gupta ⭐Ben Gwalchmai ⭐Taiwo Hassan ⭐Stephen Joffe ⭐Patrick Jones ⭐Leena Joshi ⭐Michael Kelleher ⭐Alex Scarborough ⭐Joshua Seigal ⭐Gordon Taylor poetrywales.co.uk/poetry-wales...

Our info session on the Foyle Young Poets Award for teachers and poets working with teenagers is tomorrow (Weds) at 4.30 on Zoom. Get in touch if you'd like to come (link below). We'll explain what the award entails, hear from 2 experienced teachers & share further resources. Free to attend!

Absorbing articles in Poetry Review @poetrysociety.bsky.social Will Harris writes of the poet Paul Celan's post-war meeting with the philosopher Heidegger (Nazi Party member until 1945). Celan's cryptic poem on their encounter ends amongst moorland bogs...

Also in Poetry Review @poetrysociety.bsky.social. Jade Cuttle writes evocatively of her passion for soil, & of 'the bold & beating heart of 'Nature Matters: Vital Poems from the Global Majority'.

Poetry Review @poetrysociety.bsky.social'That tapping from the hull of the sunken submarine' Daniel Huws;reviewer Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social. A critic with transatlantic insight whose eloquent plainness,'Lunch with the truth; it's the only meal we get',lures me to 'Debris',Carcanet

Young poets: free writing workshop alert! On Friday 29 May, join Dr Beth Daley from europeana.eu for a writing workshop to inspire your entries to The Curiosity Challenge on Young Poets Network. You don’t need any previous writing experience to take part! Book your space: bit.ly/YPN-Europeana-WS

Like food? Like poetry & literature? Step this way!🍿⬇️ The brilliant podcast Let Them Eat Books' latest ep discusses the history, processes & sensations of POPCORN, including my poem commended in #StanzaComp2025 @poetrysociety.bsky.social. What a lovely, unexpected delight. tinyurl.com/bde4hs32

Congratulations to our Exeter Stanza on the publication of their new zine, The Silken Twine! What a gorgeous book! 😍

Our Edu team is busy sending thousands of our new #FoyleYoungPoets anthology, Patterns in the Dust, to schools. Poetry Society members will get a copy in our summer mailout If you're a UK school email [email protected] to request your free class set or read online bit.ly/PatternsintheDust25

Congratulations to all shortlisted in the poetry category of the Wales Book of the Year Award: ⭐Deryn Rees-Jones ⭐ Laura Wainwright ⭐Jeremy Over ⭐Carwyn Eckley ⭐Jo Heyde ⭐Mererid Hopwood Llongyfarchiadau! www.literaturewales.org/our-projects...

Enjoy these extracts from incredible poems published in the Spring 2026 issue of The Poetry Review. You can read these poems in full, plus many more, for FREE on our website, where you can also grab your own copy of the Review. Click the link in our bio for more ✒️

There are still a few tickets left for both our online and in-person reading groups next week! Led by poet Julia Bird, these sessions will explore the new writing published in the Spring Issue of The Poetry Review. Except conversation, insight, and lots of poetry! Tickets available in our bio.

Calling all poets aged 14-25 in and around London: come to our next Young Poets Takeover in The Poetry Cafe on Saturday 23 May! 🌟 Hear poetry from today’s most exciting young voices 🌟 Sign up for the open mic to read your work 🌟 Meet other young poets! Book at bit.ly/May26Takeover

Aged 14-17? Join us on Thursday, 7 May at 5 pm BST for an online Zoom session where The Poetry Society's education team will introduce you to the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award and you'll hear from one of the judges and a former winner. Book a place at bit.ly/FoyleLaunch26

Tickets are still available for our evening of discussion and readings from Blake Morrison and Sinéad Morrissey. These award-winning writers will be discussing the different ways poetry and memoir approach truth-telling. Grab your tickets before they're gone at the link in our bio.

Sorry to hear of the death of Carol Rumens, who has passed away aged 81 www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Lovely to get a mention in @poetrysociety.bsky.social anthology Foyle Young Poets of the Year. Some excellent poems in here!

Teachers & poets working with young people aged 11-17! Join our poet-teacher network Cloud Chamber on Weds 13 May, 4.30-5.30pm BST on Zoom for a free info session on how to support your students to enter the Foyle Young Poets Award. Free to attend. Details at poetrysociety.org.uk/education/cl...

Snaps from our Poetry Jam Jar project with @anewdirectionldn.bsky.social 's Primary Arts Touring Programme. A team of 6 poets ran poetry workshops & assemblies with >1000 pupils in 9 schools. Here’s the fab Francesca Beard & Rachel Piercey in action. Well done all! Photos: Eric Aydin-Barberini

Have you seen our latest Foyle Young Poets Award anthology, Patterns in the Dust, featuring the 2025 winners? Read it online at bit.ly/PatternsintheDust25 Keep an eye out for your copy in our summer mailout. UK schools can order free class sets of the anthology by emailing [email protected]

Missed out on a ticket to Clare Shaw's online workshop 'Poetry of Restoration and Repair'? Reserve your spot to receive a recording of the FULL workshop, available until 27 May! Purchase tickets for the recording here: poetrysociety.org.uk/event/worksh...

If you were a guest at Free Verse this year, then we want to hear from you! Fill out the feedback form in the link in our bio for the chance to win a free Poetry Society membership.

The final #NaPoWriMo prompt comes from none other than Partridge Boswell, winner of the 2025 National Poetry Competition. You can read Partridge's winning poem in the Spring 2026 issue of The Poetry Review. The National Poetry Competition will re-open for entries this June!

Congratulations to the poets & publishers shortlisted for this year's @michaelmarksawards.bsky.social ! Poets Rachel Cleverly, Hugh Foley, Eve Ellis, James Appleby & Hasti Presses Out-Spoken, Black Sunflowers, Green Bottle & Dirt (Dialect) michaelmarksawards.org/awards/2025-...

Congratulations @pascalepetit.bsky.social winner of the 25-26 Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize!

Lost copy of seventh-century poem in Old English discovered at Rome library

Calling all young poets: come along to our next Young Poets Takeover in London! This Young Poets Takeover will feature some of the most recent winners of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award and the writing challenges on Young Poets Network. Book your free space: bit.ly/May26Takeover

#NaPoWriMo prompt 29 comes from Cal O'Reilly, who was a Top 15 Foyle Young Poet of the Year in 2022, and was Commended in 2021 and 2020. This year's competition has just opened, so if you are a young poet, or there's a young poet in your life aged between 11-17, you can enter via our website!

#NaPoWriMo might be winding down, but we still have lots of opportunities available! Kexin Huang draws on Clare Shaw's writing for this prompt, and there are still tickets available for her online writing workshop TONIGHT. Follow the link in our bio to sign up.

Enjoying the Spring issue of Poetry Review? Come along to our reading groups to explore, engage and share your thoughts on standout pieces with fellow poetry enthusiasts. Online and in-person events will take place on 11th and 13th May from 6:30 - 8 pm. Book your place: poetrysociety.org.uk/events

Thanks, Suzanna, for such a careful reading of ‘& then a lark’ (first published in Poetry News @poetrysociety.bsky.social) from my new pamphlet Mædwe! 💚

7 May @brlsi.bsky.social 7pm Join Rebecca Swift Foundation and @bathspauni.bsky.social for a panel on Women's Poetry Today with @akischilz.bsky.social Jennifer Lee Tsai, Jane Commane, Vanessa Kisuule and @sophiedumont.bsky.social Tickets £5/£3 www.ticketsource.com/bathspalive/...

One of our final #NaPoWriMo prompts comes from poet Pascale Petit. You can find Pascale's writing in many issues of The Poetry Review, where she features as both a poet and a critic. Members of The Poetry Society get full access to our digital archive of the Review - join us at the link in our bio.

Last chance to get tickets to the Clare Show workshop tomorrow (Tues 28 April) from 6.30-8.30pm on Zoom! You will have the chance to engage with poems that speak of destruction and recovery & create your own poems in response. Book at bit.ly/PoetryRestoreRepair or via poetrysociety.org.uk/events

This is your reminder to enter our members' competition by midnight on Wednesday! Judged by Hannah Copley, this competition is on the theme of "concrete", and offers you the chance to win publication in Poetry News, along with exclusive prizes.

Aged 14-17? Join us on Thursday, 7 May at 5 pm BST for an online Zoom session where The Poetry Society's education team will introduce you to the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award and you'll hear from one of the judges and a former winner. Book a place at bit.ly/FoyleLaunch26

Has #NaPoWriMo2026 inspired you to write more poetry? Today's prompt comes from Francesca Weekes, who has won many of our Young Poets writing challenges. If you're between 5 and 25, you can enter our latest challenge on the Young Poets Network, which is all about embracing your curiosity.

Poetry Book fair 2026. Greg Thomas. J H Prynne, Paul Potts, Peter Ellson and Barbara Norman

lovely to see all three of my poetry publishers at the #freeversefair ! And look at my book haul…

You can find us (next to @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social) at the Free Verse Poetry Book Fair in the basement of St Columbas Church, Pont St, Knightsbridge, London, til 6.30pm

Ready with the @vpresslit.bsky.social stand at Free Verse in London -- complete with advance copies of Hatchery, Spice of Life Poetry Pots & some freebies!

Brilliant day meeting folk and snaffling indie #poetry at Free Verse 2026. Thank you @poetrysociety.org !

#FreeVerse poetry fair today, found books by @bansheepress.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @the87press.bsky.social @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @dialectwriters.bsky.social @kymdeyn.bsky.social #TheLittleReview #EstherFatoye & @prototypepubs.bsky.social Then my bank fraud checked me 🫥🤣