The Poetry School
@poetryschool.bsky.social
The Poetry School is the UK's largest provider of poetry education and a proud Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.
🪻🌜 Book Spring Courses: https://poetryschool.com/new-courses/spring-2026-quick-course-guide/
🪻🌜 Book Spring Courses: https://poetryschool.com/new-courses/spring-2026-quick-course-guide/
The Big Give ends tomorrow! 💥 Last chance to have your donation doubled for Pathways Through Poetry — funding fully sponsored places for emerging poets facing barriers. Help us nurture new voices and open doors.
Donate here: donate.biggive.org/c... 🔗
Donate here: donate.biggive.org/c... 🔗
December 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The Big Give ends tomorrow! 💥 Last chance to have your donation doubled for Pathways Through Poetry — funding fully sponsored places for emerging poets facing barriers. Help us nurture new voices and open doors.
Donate here: donate.biggive.org/c... 🔗
Donate here: donate.biggive.org/c... 🔗
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...
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...
December 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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...
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:
Our Writers’ Notes series is back! Gillian Allnutt shares how practising different poetic forms helped create her collection 'Lode'.
📚 Read the full piece:
Gillian Allnutt – T. S. Eliot Writer’s Notes • Poetry School
Gillian Allnutt talks about how she wrote her recent T.S. Eliot Prize shortlisted poetry collection 'Lode'.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
🌟 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:
Our Writers’ Notes series is back! Gillian Allnutt shares how practising different poetic forms helped create her collection 'Lode'.
📚 Read the full piece:
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...
Read here: poetryschool.com/reviews/quee...
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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...
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...
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...
November 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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...
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...
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...
November 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🌟 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...
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...
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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/
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/
October 6, 2025 at 8:14 AM
HUGE congratulations to Natalie Shapero on the shortlisting of STAY DEAD for this year’s @tseliotprize.bsky.social !!!
🏜️📺💙
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Reposted by The Poetry School
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 🙏
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 🙏
October 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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 🙏
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... 📚
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... 📚
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🌟 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... 📚
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 →
6 modules. 6 tutors. A dynamic, accessible way to grow as a writer.
Module 1 starts 20 Jan 2026.
Sign up →
Pathways through Poetry: Module 1 • Poetry School
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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November 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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 →
6 modules. 6 tutors. A dynamic, accessible way to grow as a writer.
Module 1 starts 20 Jan 2026.
Sign up →
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/... 🪻🌜
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.
poetryschool.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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/... 🪻🌜
poetryschool.com/new-courses/... 🪻🌜
✍️ 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...
Sarah Hesketh explores how poets handle real voices, collaboration, and ethics — from inspiration to ownership — and where creative freedom meets responsibility.
🔗 poetryschool.com/the...
November 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
✍️ 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...
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...
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...
November 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
🧱 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...
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...
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...
November 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
🎶 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...
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
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
October 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
🌸 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
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...
Read her story: poetryschool.com/how...
October 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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...
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...
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...
October 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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...
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...
poetryschool.com/how...
October 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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...
poetryschool.com/how...
Huge congratulations to Katrina Porteous, who is the 2025 Laurel Prize winner. 🌿
September 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Huge congratulations to Katrina Porteous, who is the 2025 Laurel Prize winner. 🌿
September 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Laurel Prize ceremony live-stream starting in 30 minutes, at 5.30pm (BST)
💻: poetryschool.com/lau...
💻: poetryschool.com/lau...
September 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Laurel Prize ceremony live-stream starting in 30 minutes, at 5.30pm (BST)
💻: poetryschool.com/lau...
💻: poetryschool.com/lau...
September 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
📢 We’re hiring!
The Poetry School is seeking a Marketing & Communications Manager (Maternity Cover) to join our team for 12 months. £30k FTE | Hybrid (London/Leeds + home).
🗓️ Apply by Mon 6 Oct, 9am
🔗 Full details: poetryschool.com/ope...
The Poetry School is seeking a Marketing & Communications Manager (Maternity Cover) to join our team for 12 months. £30k FTE | Hybrid (London/Leeds + home).
🗓️ Apply by Mon 6 Oct, 9am
🔗 Full details: poetryschool.com/ope...
September 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
📢 We’re hiring!
The Poetry School is seeking a Marketing & Communications Manager (Maternity Cover) to join our team for 12 months. £30k FTE | Hybrid (London/Leeds + home).
🗓️ Apply by Mon 6 Oct, 9am
🔗 Full details: poetryschool.com/ope...
The Poetry School is seeking a Marketing & Communications Manager (Maternity Cover) to join our team for 12 months. £30k FTE | Hybrid (London/Leeds + home).
🗓️ Apply by Mon 6 Oct, 9am
🔗 Full details: poetryschool.com/ope...
Katrina Porteous – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface 🌍
On Rhizodont:
“These poems grow from years of thinking about my coastal home, science, and the voices of community projects. They weave together landscape, people, and place.”
🔗 Full piece: poetryschool.com/lau...
On Rhizodont:
“These poems grow from years of thinking about my coastal home, science, and the voices of community projects. They weave together landscape, people, and place.”
🔗 Full piece: poetryschool.com/lau...
September 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Katrina Porteous – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface 🌍
On Rhizodont:
“These poems grow from years of thinking about my coastal home, science, and the voices of community projects. They weave together landscape, people, and place.”
🔗 Full piece: poetryschool.com/lau...
On Rhizodont:
“These poems grow from years of thinking about my coastal home, science, and the voices of community projects. They weave together landscape, people, and place.”
🔗 Full piece: poetryschool.com/lau...
Eliza O’Toole – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface 🌍
On A Cranic of Ordinaries (@shearsmanbooks):
“99% of writing is thinking. My practice is a lifetime of voluminous reading—law, botany, philosophy, etymologies—all percolating into poetry.”
🔗 Full piece: poetryschool.com/lau...
On A Cranic of Ordinaries (@shearsmanbooks):
“99% of writing is thinking. My practice is a lifetime of voluminous reading—law, botany, philosophy, etymologies—all percolating into poetry.”
🔗 Full piece: poetryschool.com/lau...
September 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Eliza O’Toole – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface 🌍
On A Cranic of Ordinaries (@shearsmanbooks):
“99% of writing is thinking. My practice is a lifetime of voluminous reading—law, botany, philosophy, etymologies—all percolating into poetry.”
🔗 Full piece: poetryschool.com/lau...
On A Cranic of Ordinaries (@shearsmanbooks):
“99% of writing is thinking. My practice is a lifetime of voluminous reading—law, botany, philosophy, etymologies—all percolating into poetry.”
🔗 Full piece: poetryschool.com/lau...