My subscriber copy of The Poetry Review from the @poetrysociety.org.uk has arrived. Particularly looking forward to reading the conversation between Major Jackson and Nick Makoha, two poets whose work I admire. I was fortunate to hear Major Jackson read at Newcastle Uni a few years ago.

The Summer 2026 issue of The Poetry Review (116:2) is out now, featuring new poetry from Rachael Boast, Jemma Borg, Sean Borodale, Clementine Ewokolo Burnley, Ishion Hutchinson, Tim Liardet, Claudia Roquette-Pinto (translated by Stefan Tobler), Chloe Stopa-Hunt and Evan Wang among many others.

Last few FREE tickets for the Poetry Society launch of Hotel Petroleum tomorrow night…https://poetrysociety.org.uk/event/hotel-petroleum-book-launch/

That's a wrap on our Arts4Us year 2 celebration event! 🎉 A huge thank you to everyone who joined us and helped make today's event such a success. It was fantastic to connect, share ideas, and create memorable moments (and art) together.

Off to Ledbury Poetry Festival in a few weeks? Don’t miss our new poets showcase, featuring readings from Rashed Aqrawabi, Olive Franklin, and Ellora Sutton. Tickets at ledburypoetry.org.uk/home/whats-on/

I’m moved by this poem about tinnitus by Tim Liardet from the latest Poetry Review @poetrysociety.org.uk

If you’re heading to Ledbury Poetry Festival in a few weeks, then make sure you grab your tickets to our film screening and reading from Karen McCarthy Woolf’s new book Unsafe! Tickets at ledburypoetry.org.uk/home/whats-on/

Great to read the lovely review of Lauren Mason’s Rust Canyon in The Poetry Review! Rust Canyon: vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo... More on The Poetry Review from The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk here: poetrysociety.org.uk/publications...

#TheDeeperRead 25 is here, featuring P. A. Erskine's "This Business of Size", paired with my poem "Punting Through Ice" from @poetrysociety.org.uk Poetry News Autumn 2025, inspired by a photograph by Erica Longfellow: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

Poetry News from @poetrysociety.org.uk is always required reading. Great to be included with this item on how war poetry is proving particularly popular in this year’s competition: “an intriguing response to our times" says Julie Blake. #poetry #edusky poetrybyheart.org.uk/showcase/2

In the post: the new Poetry Review from @poetrysociety.org.uk Refreshing and deepening my language and my thinking.

Thank you, our lovely postie and @poetrysociety.org.uk for delivering and originating these.

Some of our Young Poets Networkers are taking part in the National Poetry Collectives Showcase, which brings together Roundhouse Poetry Collective, Barbican Young Poets, Southbank New Poets, HIVE, Young Identity & more! 18 July, Brixton House, London. Tickets at brixtonhouse.co.uk/shows/nation...

"For the most part, they all lived happily ever after; Dodgy Dave lost the Dodgy, now he’s just Dave, Joris got his new blue passport, Lizzy wrestled her lettuce into submission" from Nathan Graham's 'Ed Davey-Coded', a 2025 #FoyleYoungPoetsAward winner poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/ed-dav...

We're delighted to share young poet Rucha Virmani's poem 'December Heat,' published in the latest Modern Poetry in Translation issue focusing on archives. Read the rest of Rucha's winning poem online: bit.ly/YPN-MPT

Huge thanks to @forwardprizes.bsky.social for long-listing my poem, and to @poetrysociety.org.uk for nominating it, along with great poems from @nickykippax.bsky.social and Matt Barnard! 🙏🏻

Aged 14-25? Polish up your poetry editing skills & hear from other young poets around the globe at our next online workshop-Takeover double bill! Find out more and sign up at bit.ly/EditingYPN

Inspired by the encouragement of this year’s fantastic judging panel - Sarah Moss, Yomi Ṣode, Romalyn Ante, WN Herbert, & Michael Mullen - we’re delighted to be releasing our longlists for the very first time ahead of shortlist announcements in mid-July. Congratulations to all the longlisted poets!

Announcing our next open mic! Hosted in-person at The Poetry Cafe by award-winning writer Toby Campion, this is your chance to share your work at our iconic venue. More information + tickets available at the link in our bio 🎤

Just over a week until our next online workshop! Claudine Toutoungi will be taking us through poems that bring the abstract and the material, and how to find the song behind the thing. Thurs 25 June, 6.30-8.30pm on Zoom! Book at poetrysociety.org.uk/event/online...

"Ponies decorate the surface like little ornaments. They are given this word: wild," Jonah Corren's poem about wild ponies, 'Semi-feral', was commended in our Young Poets Network 'Earthlings, Building' ecopoetry challenge about multi-species habitats. poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/semi-f...

We (the North Herts stanza of the @poetrysociety.org.uk) are delighted to be launching our latest #poetry anthology in David's Bookshop, Letchworth, at 7pm on June 25th. All welcome.

Young poets: new writing challenge alert! Write a poem inspired by the world of dreams for the chance to win poetry prizes and opportunities ☁️ Find prompts and enter by 16 August on Young Poets Network: bit.ly/DreamsYPN

Sorry to hear of the death of David Hockney. Phyllis May's 'Swimming Pool', inspired by Hockney's iconic pool scenes, was commended in the 1985 National Poetry Competition. Here's the opening. Full poem at poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/swimming-pool

This is going to be a great night! Free tickets available from @poetrysociety.org.uk for the launch of @fiddes.bsky.social 's new collection Hotel Petroleum. 2nd July at the Poetry Cafe, London. With me & @betarish.bsky.social supporting. Get in quick!

Poets in Schools is our service for educators looking to bring a facilitator into their school to deliver poetry workshops, lead assemblies, or judge in-school poetry slams. Book your National Poetry Day visit: bit.ly/PoetsInSchools

Internship opportunity! Have you taken part in our Camden Young Writers project or our poetry & wellbeing project, Steph's Poetry Space? Want to gain some more hands-on arts experience? We're offering week-long paid internships this summer. Find out more at bit.ly/TPSIntern26 and apply by 1 July.

Calling all young poets: only one week left to enter our most curious writing challenge yet! In our latest writing challenge with Europeana, we’re asking poets aged 5-25 to write curious poems inspired by Europeana’s extensive online archives. ⭐️ Find prompts and enter: bit.ly/CuriosityYPN

Book launch coming up in the Poetry Cafe!

Join us in Ormskirk on Sat 27 June for the Arts4Us celebration, feat. keynotes by Prof. Daisy Fancourt & Stephen Stapelton (Jameel Arts & Health), creative workshops, panels & presentations on creative health for young people. Open to all. Free to attend! Book at www.edgehill.ac.uk/event/arts4u...

Thanks to everyone who came along to our meet-up this eve! We read our poetry & also discussed poems by Emily Skaja, Linda Gregg & Saddiq Dzukogi! Our next meeting at the Geek Retreat is on the 25th of June, the theme is #inspiredbydickens or see you at our #sundayslowdown! @poetrysociety.org.uk

Last Saturday, we braved the heat and welcomed dozens of brilliant young poets to The Poetry Cafe for another Young Poets Takeover open mic! Find out when our next Takeover is by signing up to the Young Poets Network newsletter: ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk

Announcing our next poetry workshop! Claudine Toutoungi will be running a session focussed on finding ways to bring the abstract and the material together in your work. Tickets are now available via the link in our bio.

Ooh, what a cover! 😍 Great to see this out in the world from our North Hertfordshire Stanza group.

Happy World Biodiversity Day! Sharing pics from our Bog Talk project, part of the RENEW Biodiversity Programme led by The National Trust & Exeter Uni. We worked in Plymouth primary schools, helping children explore peatland through poetry Find free Bog Talk learning resources at bit.ly/BecomingBog

Last month, we were in Plymouth to run a Young Poets Takeover at Plymouth Poetry Festival! Young Poets Takeovers are a space for up-and-coming young poets and performers to meet one another and share their work on stage. Find out more about our work with writers under 25: ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk

This is very good @poetrysociety.org.uk

The T. S. Eliot Foundation is delighted to announce the judges for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2026. Leontia Flynn (Chair) will be joined on the panel by fellow poets Ishion Hutchinson and Daisy Lafarge. Find out more at tseliot.com/prize!

Reminder! Next week two incredible writers will be taking over The Poetry Café for an evening of discussion, reflection, and insight into the work of writing poetry and writing memoir. Tickets are still available for this conversation between award-winning writers Blake Morrison and Sinéad Morrisey!

Congratulations to everyone shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize! ⭐ Isabelle Baafi ⭐ Dean Browne ⭐ Sasha Debvec-McKenny ⭐ Catherine-Esther Cowie ⭐ Laura Wainwright www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews...

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...