Here you’ll find a host of ideas about how to go about all things poetry-related – from performing your own poetry to learning how to analyse a poem.
Find out how to…
• Submit your work to a publication or competition
• Perform at a poetry open mic
• Translate poems from another language
• Explore metaphor with Sarah Howe
• Find out more about poets such as Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Browning, William Blake and Emily Dickinson
• Think about what to study at university
• Get writing tips from top name poets such as Jo Shapcott, Luke Kennard, C.K. Williams and Matthew Sweeney, as well as young poets from all over the world
• Be inspired by young writers and spoken word artists from the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award and SLAMbassadors UK
And much more…
Hi I am the Editor of Whisper from the Heart Poetry Club and would like to list our competition details on your web site
Is this possible?
Hi Stan,
If you’d like to add an entry to our opportunities section, we’d be glad to hear from you – please contact educationadmin@poetrysociety.org.uk.
Thanks!
Young Poets Network
How to send you poem and contact you
Hi Vrinda,
Thanks for your comment. You can enter any of our challenges by reading the ‘how to enter’ on the bottom of the page. Currently we have two open:
– http://ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/workshop/end-hunger-uk-poetry-challenge/
– http://ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/workshop/we-dont-intend-that-you-should-be-pleased-a-protest-poetry-challenge-for-universal-suffrage/
We hope to read your poems!
Helen