We’re delighted to announce that applications are now open for the Poetry School MA in Writing Poetry Scholarship 2026! 🎓 Apply Now: poetryschool.com/the...

Our Summer Term courses are now available to book! We have a range of options to choose from such as: 🐣 Beginner Courses 💻 Zoom and In-Person 💬 Studios and Feedback 🌐 Online Courses 📚 Masterclasses 🚀Advanced Workshops Click here to see our full programme 👉poetryschool.com/new...

Want to create unique love poems? 💘 In the lead up to Valentine's Day, our tutor Elizabeth Parker discusses her top five love poems you should be reading for that romantic inspiration. 💌 Check out the full list here: poetryschool.com/the...

🎓 Interested in taking your poetry to a higher level? Our MA in Writing Poetry Open Day takes place on Saturday 14 March! To register your interest in attending, please contact ma@poetryschool.com. More info here 👉 poetryschool.com/our...

📩 Where to Submit You Poetry for 2026! Check out our list of places to submit your wonderful poems this year ⬇️ poetryschool.com/the...

The T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 Shortlist Readings, hosted by Ian McMillan, will be taking place this Sunday! 🗓️ WHEN: Sunday 18 January, 7-9pm 📍 WHERE: Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London 👉 BOOK NOW: www.southbankcentre....

🌟 Jamie McKendrick on Tom Paulin – T. S. Eliot Writer’s Notes 🌟 Our final piece for the Writers’ Notes series! Jamie McKendrick discusses Tom Paulin's collection Namanlagh. 📚 Read the full piece: poetryschool.com/t-s...

🌟 Isabelle Baafi – T. S. Eliot Writer’s Notes 🌟 Our Writers’ Notes series is back! Isabelle Baafi shares how valuable feedback opened new doors of possibility and helped shape her collection Chaotic Good. 📚 Read the full piece: poetryschool.com/t-s...

🌟 Sarah Howe – T. S. Eliot Writer’s Notes 🌟 Our Writers’ Notes series is back! Sarah Howe shares how taking her time helped her create her collection Foretokens. 📚 Read the full piece: poetryschool.com/t-s...

🌟 Nick Makoha – T. S. Eliot Writer’s Notes 🌟 Our Writers’ Notes series is back! Nick Makoha shares how blurring the boundaries helped him create his collection The New Carthaginians. 📚 Read the full piece: poetryschool.com/t-s...

📢 We’re Hiring! Programmes and Website Administrator (Fixed Term, 12 Months) 📌 Location: Hybrid — London/Leeds + home working 🗓️ Apply by: Monday 12 January 2026, 11.59pm 💻 Interviews: W/C 19 January 2026 👉 View full job description here: poetryschool.com/ope...

🌟 Catherine Esther-Cowie – T. S. Eliot Writer’s Notes 🌟 Our Writers’ Notes series is back! Catherine-Esther Cowie shares how taking a break from writing helped her create her collection Heirloom. 📚 Read the full piece: poetryschool.com/t-s...

Pathways Through Poetry is launching today with The Big Give! ✨ We’re raising £5k to fund 5 fully sponsored places for emerging poets from underrepresented backgrounds — and every pound will be doubled. 💫 👉 Donate today and double your impact: donate.biggive.org/c...

🌟 Gillian Allnutt – T. S. Eliot Writer’s Notes 🌟 Our Writers’ Notes series is back! Gillian Allnutt shares how practising different poetic forms helped create her collection 'Lode'. 📚 Read the full piece:

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Gillian Allnutt talks about how she wrote her recent T.S. Eliot Prize shortlisted poetry collection 'Lode'.

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Tim Tim Cheng (@timtimtmi.bsky.social) explores how endings & beginnings blur in Yau Ching’s for now I am sitting here growing transparent. This bilingual, Chenxin-Jiang–translated collection links human & non-human through vivid urban anti-eclogues. Read here: poetryschool.com/reviews/quee...

What an indie publisher can teach you about writing 🖊️ Autumn Richardson & Richard Skelton (@corbelstonepress.bsky.social) on poetry beyond the self: “Experience can be transmuted into mythic, universal narratives.” 📚 Read the full piece: poetryschool.com/the...

🌟 Natalie Shapero – T. S. Eliot Writer’s Notes 🌟 Our Writers’ Notes series is back! Natalie Shapero shares how Stay Dead grew from heavy note-taking, planning, and quirky planner notebooks. 📚 Read the full piece: poetryschool.com/the...

HUGE congratulations to Natalie Shapero on the shortlisting of STAY DEAD for this year’s @tseliotprize.bsky.social !!! 🏜️📺💙

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We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist! Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone." Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/

Big news. Big. Huge. 🌝 Delighted that Stay Dead by Natalie Shapero is shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 2025 🙏 to the judging panel & congratulations to all shortlisted poets. We hope this recognition can bring her work to more UK readers 🙏

🌟 Vona Groarke in our T. S. Eliot Prize Writers’ Notes 🌟 On Infinity Pool and why she “doesn’t have a practice — I just write poems whenever I can.” A gorgeous reflection on how poems happen in the everyday. Read more: poetryschool.com/theblog/vona... 📚

Pathways Through Poetry — a new 2-year Poetry School programme designed to open doors into the poetry world and build a solid grounding in the craft. 6 modules. 6 tutors. A dynamic, accessible way to grow as a writer. Module 1 starts 20 Jan 2026. Sign up →

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A new Poetry School programme, giving students a thorough grounding in the craft of writing poetry, with Module 1 taught by Rachel Long!

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Our Spring 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/... 🪻🌜

Spring 2026 – Quick Course Guide • Poetry School

Check out our Quick Course Guide for the Spring 2026 term which will help you pick a course to take at the Poetry School.

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✍️ How Poets Navigate Plagiarism, Consent, and Authorship Sarah Hesketh explores how poets handle real voices, collaboration, and ethics — from inspiration to ownership — and where creative freedom meets responsibility. 🔗 poetryschool.com/the...

🧱 Class, Work and the Politics of Poetry Ruth Beddow asks who really gets to write — and how class, time, and labour shape the poetry we make. A powerful reflection on access, identity, and creativity in a working world. 🔗 poetryschool.com/the...

🎶 Why Understanding Music Can Improve Your Poetry Writing Tristram Fane Saunders explores how rhythm, melody, and musical thinking can deepen your craft — making poems sing on and off the page. 🔗 poetryschool.com/the...

🌸 Spring Term Launch! 🌙 Our new programme drops Thu 6 Nov, 10.30am (GMT) — get online early, courses sell fast! Tutors incl. @jesstraynor.bsky.social, @aanaxagorou.bsky.social & Fran Locke. ✨ Highlights: AI & writing, hoax poetics, moon cycles, menopause & more. #Poetry #WritingCommunity

In our Forward Prizes 2025 How I Did It series, Isabelle Baafi reflects on writing ‘Piggy’ from her debut Chaotic Good — a contrapuntal poem born from horror, double consciousness & the search for truth. Read her story: poetryschool.com/how...

How do poets write for children? ✨ In our latest blog, Kathryn Simmonds shares how to captivate young readers through rhythm, surprise, & collaboration with illustrators — plus tips for poets curious about picture books. Read more: poetryschool.com/how...

Mimorian began as an experiment — I joined a Spanish-language poetry class after 10 years away from the language. Through Carlos Drummond’s Resíduo, I found a way to write about memory, loss & what little of us remains. From that, Heirloom grew. poetryschool.com/how...

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