Huge congratulations to Katrina Porteous, who is the 2025 Laurel Prize winner. 🌿

Laurel Prize ceremony live-stream starting now: 💻: poetryschool.com/lau...

Laurel Prize ceremony live-stream starting in 30 minutes, at 5.30pm (BST) 💻: poetryschool.com/lau...

Laurel Prize ceremony live-stream starting today at 5.30pm (BST) 💻: poetryschool.com/lau...

📢 We’re hiring! The Poetry School is seeking a Marketing & Communications Manager (Maternity Cover) to join our team for 12 months. £30k FTE | Hybrid (London/Leeds + home). 🗓️ Apply by Mon 6 Oct, 9am 🔗 Full details: poetryschool.com/ope...

Katrina Porteous – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface 🌍 On Rhizodont: “These poems grow from years of thinking about my coastal home, science, and the voices of community projects. They weave together landscape, people, and place.” 🔗 Full piece: poetryschool.com/lau...

Eliza O’Toole – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface 🌍 On A Cranic of Ordinaries (@shearsmanbooks): “99% of writing is thinking. My practice is a lifetime of voluminous reading—law, botany, philosophy, etymologies—all percolating into poetry.” 🔗 Full piece: poetryschool.com/lau...

Carol Watts – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface 🌍 On Mimic Pond: “Poetry has always been a place I go to. From childhood rhythms of prayer + countryside, through Wordsworth, Clare, Riley + Niedecker—poems began to pour out in sequences.” 🔗 Full piece: poetryschool.com/lau...

🌍 Announcing our 2025 Laurel Poet-in-Residence! We’re thrilled to welcome Manisha Dhesi, who will join the Laurel Prize weekend + write a commissioned eco-themed poem.

JR Carpenter – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface 🌍 On Measures of Weather: “Writing is noticing + noting. Rocks, seeds, photos—all count as notes. The space between noticing + noting is where the real writing happens.” 🔗 Full piece: poetryschool.com/lau... Winner live Fri 19 Sept, 5.30pm BST

Judith Beveridge – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface 🌍 On her collection Tintinnabulum (@giramondobooks.bsky.social): “I don’t start with an idea—the poem emerges from small things, a birdcall, a phrase, a run of syllables.” 🔗 poetryschool.com/lau... | Winner live Fri 19 Sep, 5.30pm BST

Starting out in poetry? 🌱 Explore our Autumn 2025 courses for beginners & emerging poets. Find your voice + join a vibrant community. 👉 poetryschool.com/the...

🌿 50% off Global Majority Writing from the British Countryside — a new online poetry masterclass with Louisa Adjoa Parker, starting Sept 2025. Details & booking →

📚 Katrina Naomi @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social on How to Get Your Poetry Published + details of her Oct 2025 course What Makes a Collection? → poetryschool.com/the...

🍂 New Autumn 2025 poetry courses: sonnets, form, feedback & advanced workshops. Explore & book here →

✒️ Stav Poleg on Writing After Rimbaud — how reading the greats can transform your poetry. Read the blog → poetryschool.com/the...

🔥 New advanced poetry courses for Autumn 2025 — masterclasses, seminars & workshops for serious writers. Explore & apply here → poetryschool.com/the...

🌍 New on the Poetry School blog: Elizabeth Torres (Madam Neverstop) on writing about the climate crisis, eco-poetics & poetry as survival. Read here → poetryschool.com/how...

✨ New Poetry School courses for Autumn 2025 ✨ Poetry as ritual, care, grief, resilience & renewal. Explore the full programme + book here: poetryschool.com/the... #Poetry #CreativeWriting #PoetrySchool

📢 We’re Hiring! The Poetry School is seeking an Artistic Director & Joint CEO (Maternity Cover) for a 12-month, part-time role (3 or 3.5 days per week). 💷 £60–65k FTE (pro rata) 📍 Hybrid – London (Somerset House) / Leeds (1 City Square)

🌿✨ Watch the Laurel Prize Ceremony 2025 live! ✨🌿 📖 Finalist readings 👩‍⚖️ Judges: Kathleen Jamie, Daljit Nagra & Caroline Lucas 🏆 Winner revealed live 📅 Fri 19 Sept 2025 🕠 5.30pm (BST) 👉 Sign up here: poetryschool.com/cou... #LaurelPrize #Ecopoetry #PoetryCommunity #ClimatePoetry

🌿 2025 Laurel Prize Finalist 🌿 Carol Watts: “I’m delighted & honoured to be shortlisted for the Laurel Prize. Mimic Pond walked itself together quietly over years, so it was a welcome surprise. The prize underlines poetry’s role in responding to the environmental crisis.” #LaurelPrize2025

🌿 2025 Laurel Prize Finalist 🌿 Katrina Porteous: “For me, poetry is a kind of listening, transmitting what I hear. Living on the coast reminds me human life is both tiny & powerful. Small, local attachments can influence vast planetary mechanisms—this brings hope.” #LaurelPrize2025

🌿 2025 Laurel Prize Finalist 🌿 Eliza O’Toole: “Becoming a finalist means the ‘country-side’, with its fields, farming & manifold particularities of the natural world, can be cherished & recognised—not as the ‘other’ side of the country, but as a unified whole.” #LaurelPrize2025

🌿 2025 Laurel Prize Finalist 🌿 JR Carpenter: “In light of the climate emergency we must ask new questions of weather & the language we use. I’m grateful to the Laurel Prize judges for bringing the pressing questions in Measures of Weather to wider attention.” #LaurelPrize2025

🌿 2025 Laurel Prize Finalist 🌿 Judith Beveridge: “I’m honoured to be a finalist. In my poetry I try to impart reverence for the natural world—to show interrelationships, open spaces for celebration & contemplation, and use language as a mechanism for wonder & joy.” #LaurelPrize2025

🌍 Poetry is borderless. This Autumn, explore translation, ekphrasis & multilingual writing in our Global Poetics courses. Write beyond borders—nation, genre, tongue. Courses are filling fast: poetryschool.com/the...

Autumn’s on the horizon, and so are our new poetry courses 🍂 Grief, folklore, ecology & more – perfect for attuning your writing to the darker months. Some already sold out. Book now to save your place: poetryschool.com/the...

“Rejection is inevitable—even for experienced writers.” 💬 Poet Rachel Bower (@rachelbower.bsky.social) shares how to face rejection with resilience, reflection & community. Practical, honest advice for every poet. Read the full blog: poetryschool.com/how...

Laurel Prize 2025 finalists! £5k to winner & £1k to others. Winner on 19 Sept 5:30pm BST, live-streamed as part of BBC Contains Strong Language Judith Beveridge Tintinnabulum JR Carpenter Measures of Weather Eliza O’Toole A Cranic of Ordinaries Katrina Porteous Rhizodont Carol Watts Mimic Pond

Our Autumn Term is now live & we’ve got a whole host of brilliant tutors & poetry courses lined up, so be sure to book promptly to avoid disappointment. Our handy Quick Course Guide is linked in bio, where you’ll find everything you’ll need to know…🌞 🎃 poetryschool.com/new-courses/...

Here's Part 2 of Matthew Caley's interview with us on Feedback, Originality, & Ownership in Poetry Workshops: ow.ly/5yom50Wl4M6 Matthew is also running two Summer Seminar sessions with us, starting Wednesday 23 July! For more info please visit: ow.ly/CzjF50Wl4M7

Our talented MA Foundation Seminar students will be giving a poetry reading, sharing new work developed during the course. This intimate event, hosted by Meryl Pugh, offers a chance to celebrate emerging talent. It's free, so if you're interested in tuning in, email: [email protected].

Jaws at 50 (‘You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Class’) w/ @simonbarraclough.bsky.social‬ 🦈 Fear & fantasy – exploring the wonder of Spielberg’s Jaws, this starts in just 1 month on 5 July! In this 1-day workshop to mark the half-century of one of the most influential films: poetryschool.com/cou...

Many congratulations to our MA in Writing Poetry first year Sarah Boyd who has been awarded second place in the Arts Richmond Poetry Prize 2025 on the theme of Changes. 🎉

Poetry School Play: Adventure with ‪@cassettewitch.bsky.social‬ Cut loose & get creative! In these monthly sessions, join Nick Murray for an hour of playful prompts & poetry games. 1 x 1-hour session, running 7–8pm (BST), on 30 June 2025: poetryschool.com/cou...

Huge congratulations to our tutor ‪@rachelbower.bsky.social‬, who has just published her new collection, Bee, w/ Hazel Press. It's compiled of: '18 poems exploring the ancient & complicated relationship of help & harm between bees & humans...' find out more: hazelpress.co.uk/pro... 🐝

Huge congratulations to our MA in Writing Poetry alumni @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social‬ who has just been highly commended by in the 2025 Plough Prize 🎉

Meet our MA in Writing Poetry Graduates: Steph Morris MA, Class of 2017 🎓 Q: What else have you been up to since you graduated? A: I was longlisted for the National Poetry Prize & won the Live Canon Borough prize. I’ve been in a few anthologies too...read on: poetryschool.com/alu...

Well done to our student @catherineredford.bsky.social‬ who was the Selected Poet in the issue of ‪@magmapoetry.bsky.social‬ 91, & Catherine was also awarded third place in the Kathryn Bevis Memorial Prize 2025 for my poem 'Her Worldly Goods.' 🎉

Open for Submissions – Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, Deadline: 30 June 2025, 11:59pm BST 📣 There are just a few weeks left to enter the 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize. More info & how to enter: www.wasafiri.org

Call for Submissions – Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, open unitl 31 August 2025 📣 This prestigious international prize offers a chance to win £5,000 & publication in Aesthetica’s annual anthology. Submit your poetry & short fiction today. Submit here: aestheticamagazine.c...

🍓 Maudsley Lectures in Psychoanalysis | Dialogues on Poetry and Psychoanalysis’ – 2nd June – 21st July 7:30–9pm (BST) SE5 8BB or Zoom Featuring a host of exciting poets and Poetry School tutors, including Denise Riley, Glyn Maxwell, & Edward Doegar, plus many more. psychoanalysis.org.u...

How to Improve your Poetry: Writing about Good Things 🤩 by Ellene Glenn Moore Q: Why is there so much poetry about suffering?

Ready to take your poems off the page & into the body? 🎤 Explore voice, breath & performance in our Sensorial Poetry workshops. Led by Sophie Seita, @dixonkat.bsky.social‬, Kaz Reeves & more. Courses start May–July 2025. Info + booking: poetryschool.com/the... #poetry #spokenword #performance

🎲 Poetry games, playful prompts, & creative chaos! Join Nick Murray for Poetry School Playtime – an hour of low-pressure poetic experiments for all levels. 🗓️ 29 May 2025, 5–6pm BST 💻 On Zoom 💸 Only £5 Book now: poetryschool.com/cou... #poetry #writinggames #poetryworkshop

Huge congrats to Poetry School student Kelly Fordon on her new collection What Trammels the Heart, out soon with SFA Press! 📖 Pre-order & find out more: poetryschool.us4.lis... #PoetryBook #NewPoetry #PoetrySchool

“Writer’s block isn’t a wall — it’s a mirror.” Poet ‪@yanigeorgieva.bsky.social‬ breaks it down: guilt, weird notebooks, and joy over perfection. ✍️ Smart, funny, and honest. Read the full piece: poetryschool.com/how... #poetry #writinglife #writersblock

🍓 Big congrats to our MA student ‪@suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social‬, winner of the Newcastle University Chancellor's Poetry Prize—for the 2nd year running! 👏 Shoutout to highly commended poets Nadine El-Enany & Rusika Wick too! 📝 Read more: www.ncl.ac.uk/studen... #PoetrySchoolMAWritingPoetry

Congrats to Poetry School student Liz Wilson, shortlisted for the ‪@poetrywales.bsky.social‬ 2024–25 Award! Liz took Interrogating Influence with Andrew Wells and sends special thanks his way. 🌟 Huge achievement! #PoetryWales #PoetrySchool #WritingCommunity