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…
Read more poems
- Read a poem closely
- Read more Scottish poets
- Read more American poets
- Read some summer reading recommendations
- Read some more summer reading recommendations!
- Find out more about Imagism
- Find out more about poets such as William Shakespeare, Carol Ann Duffy, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Browning, William Blake, Edith Sitwell, Ted Hughes, John Berryman, Seamus Heaney, Emily Dickinson, Dorothy Wordsworth and Timothy Corsellis
- Be inspired by young writers and spoken word artists from the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award and SLAMbassadors UK, and performers at Young Poets Takeovers
Write more poems
- Keep a notebook
- Explore metaphor with Sarah Howe
- Use your own dialect in poems
- Play poetry games
- Procrastinate… creatively!
- Translate poems from another language
- Write a kenning
- Write a haibun
- Write Relief: cope with the exam season with poetry
- 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
- Check out our latest challenges for inspiration
Edit your poems
- Edit your poetry with poet Holly Hopkins
- Edit your poems (tips from your peers!)
- Rewrite your poems to get the best out of them with Cliff Yates
- Title your poems
- Give (and receive) constructive feedback
Perform your poems
- Perform your poems on stage
- Put on a poetry gig
- Perform at a poetry open mic
- Learn a poem by heart
- Beatbox
- Produce a live show
Submit and share your poems
- Submit your work to a publication or competition
- Start your own magazine
- Set up your own poetry community
- Put together and publish your first poetry book
Work in the poetry world
- Think about what to study at university
- Find an internship
- Write a covering letter
- Get into publishing
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