How do you set up a magazine? Joe Hedinger tells us the history of Dog-Ear, a uniquely shaped print and online magazine run voluntarily from Norfolk. Pete (the designer) and I used to work together in the world of ad agencies (for our sins). One lunch time, I happened to wander past Pete’s desk and […]
Throughout 2018 we’ve been celebrating 20 years of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award and on 23 October we held a celebratory reading at Southbank Centre, London with ten former winners of the prize. We’re delighted to share Foyle Young Poet Em Power’s review of this special night. A murmuring crowd hovered by […]
What do snails have in common with poems? After reading two snail poems on Twitter, Holly Singlehurst (a poet commended in the 2016 National Poetry Competition) realises how much we as poets can learn from our tiny trail-making friends. If you asked me only a few months ago what I thought about snails, their relevance […]
Modern Poetry in Translation is a quarterly magazine edited by poet and friend of YPN Clare Pollard. Co-founded by Ted Hughes in 1965, MPT seeks to introduce Anglophone readers to fantastic new work by poets and translators all over the world. We asked Foyle Young Poet Mukahang Limbu to read and review the latest issue […]
Ahead of the Southbank Centre’s live reading of The Odyssey on 21 October, we’re delighted to have Foyle Young Poet Tate Standage review the first known complete translation of The Odyssey by a woman published in English. Read on to win free tickets and to explore the translation of this epic text with poet and […]
Every year Voice Mag sends a team of young reviewers to Edinburgh over the summer to cover the festivals there. This year, Sam Nead shares her review of ‘two exceptional talents’ at the Edinburgh International Book Festival: Joelle Taylor and Matt Abbott. Matt Abbott’s debut one-man show, ‘Two Little Ducks’, features a selection of poems […]
View this post on Instagram We're gearing up for the @bbc_proms Poetry Competition radio broadcast which will be on @bbcradio3 later this evening. Tune in to hear the winning poems inspired by this year's proms programme! A post shared by ThePoetrySociety (@thepoetrysociety) on Sep 3, 2018 at 9:33am PDT We had an amazing time at […]
Welcome to the tenth (and final) Foyle Friday feature! #FoyleFriday will continue on YPN’s Twitter and Facebook as we spotlight Foyle anthologies from the past twenty years, and you can find links to all the Foyle Friday features below. In this last feature, we hear from Rachel Hard, who was a commended Foyle Young Poet in […]
Our Foyle Young Poets intern Maud Mullan reviews the second Young Poets Takeover, a performance by young poets at The Poetry Café on 21 August 2018. On a quiet London street, a few passers-by glanced curiously at the loud, chattering group spilling out of The Poetry Café at 3pm on a Tuesday afternoon. We were […]
Welcome to our ninth Foyle Friday feature! This week we’re speaking to Jay Bernard, Phoebe Power and Imogen Cassels about their work in film, poetry and academia, and the joy of befriending fellow young poets. Jay Bernard FYP: Commended in 2004 and winner in 2005. What did winning mean to you? Foyle is a […]