In these digital days, you might be sharing your poems online more than ever before. Here are some tips to make your videos look sleek and professional. A couple of notes before we start – we’re using the word ‘camera’ as a catch-all term in this feature, but we know that you’ll probably be recording […]
How can you start an online magazine with a friend? How do you juggle your poetry passions with making a living? In the latest instalment of our series profiling arts workers, we speak to Kostya Tsolakis and Romalyn Ante, poets and co-editors of the online poetry magazine harana poetry. What is your name and what […]
Sea Creature Regrows Entire Body was the headline that stopped me short. It took a day or two to get back to it what with all the broken cups… from ‘Sea Creature Regrows Entire Body’ by Elaine Beckett, published in The Poetry Review, Vol 102, No. 2, Summer 2020. There is nothing we enjoy more […]
James Berry is a poetry titan. He migrated from Jamaica to Britain in 1948, the year the Windrush arrived in Essex, and was one of the earliest writers to use Jamaican vernacular in his poetry. We asked poet Hannah Lowe, a friend of James Berry and an expert on his work, to give us an […]
In the third installment of our arts careers profiles, we speak to Stuart Bartholomew (Publisher and Director of Verve Poetry Press and Verve Poetry Festival) and Bobby Nayyar (Programme Manager at Spread the Word). Hear from today’s profilees on their various paths into the arts, from call centres to Waterstones booksellers, leading to where they […]
Young Poets Networker Miriam Culy explores the theme of physical pain in poetry, and shares how writing has helped her cope with her own chronic illness. When you learn about poetry in school, you often look at poems on love, nature or war, and perhaps God, beauty or death. You don’t very often look at […]
In the second feature in our series of arts careers profiles, we hear from Annette Brook (Communications Manager at the Royal Society of Literature) and Ali Lewis (Associate Editor at Poetry London). They speak about their varied paths into working in literature, and offer some excellent advice for young people thinking about arts careers. Name […]
Every year, The Poetry Society welcomes two American interns to our office in London. Yanisa Campusano was just settling in to the Betterton Street life when the lockdown hit. In the midst of global crisis, Yanisa carried on her internship digitally and, fascinated by how poetry has flourished during this pandemic, has written us this […]
From the outside, working in the arts can sometimes seem mysterious, impenetrable, or even impossible. It’s not a career path that gets brought up much at school: as Sarah Howe remarks, “‘poet’ never showed up on the computerised careers service as an option” – and ‘arts administrator’ is nearly as rare. In the hopes of […]
Here at YPN, we’ve often published features exploring the life and works of poets who have had a big impact on English literature – from William Blake to Elizabeth Bishop, Edith Sitwell to Robert Browning. In this latest feature, Stephanie Sy-Quia explores the life and works of Sarojini Naidu, an Indian poet and activist, in […]