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About Us
History, Staff, how to join.
Donations and Support
Help us help poetry thrive.
Events
A quick survey of current Poetry Society events -
Studio Poetry, Lectures, and the POETRY CAFE - featured in the Guardian / Cafe Met guide to London's "most funky, stylish and interesting cafes".
The Poetry Shop!
Yes - this is where you can join as a member, purchase books, back issues of Poetry Review, enter the National Poetry Competition, or make a donation on-line!
FAQ
Frequent
queries to the Poetry Society and our answers.
Information
Our guide to questions about the Poetry Society and
poetry in general. Now includes an extensive new 'FAQ' section.
The
National
Poetry Competition 2004
is now open.
Winners 2003 are announced here.
Resources for schools and young poets; school members use our consultancy service to bring poets into the classroom: "We would welcome another poet with open arms."
A monthly calendar of events at our Covent Garden venue - enjoy our selection of wines and delicious food.
Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2004
The premier competition for young writers is open for entries
See the winners through the stages, or learn how to write your own Slam poem and hold your own in-school slam!
Geoffrey Dearmer Prize
2003 winner
announced
Diary
Read about Roger McGough's residency at the Poetry Society here.
members
Full membership details; also visit our Members Page featuring selected poems by our members, and results of postal ballot.
Links
Includes the ever-changing 'Lively Links'.
Poetry
Review
Read excerpts from the spring 2004 issue
online here.
Equipping
teachers
with fresh
ideas and
methods
for making
the most of
poetry in
the classroom.
The Poetry Society's online poetry classroom project: INSET training, poetry workshops, interviews with poets, and extensive poetry links. UPDATED REGULARLY WITH RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS.
Letter from the Director
Read Jules Mann's quarterly letters.
Poetry News Articles
Highlights from the latest issue
of our newsletter for members.
Special
feature archived from International Women's Day
Thursday 7 October Join us in celebrating 'Poetry Week' leading up to NPD... see what's cooking for NPD 2004.
Advertising
Rates
For Poetry Review, Poetry News, and this
website.
Promoting poetry in libraries - useful resources for librarians.
A month-by-month listing of UK poetry books coming out this year and next
An index of poems on this website... including audio poems from our Studio Poetry series.
An archive of the Poetry Places project (1998-2000)
"All rooms now are waiting
rooms. In all our sanctuaries we sit at risk..."
Articles and poems, various poetry in healthcare projects around the UK.
You may order individual posters, a subscription of regular mailings, or join as an education member and receive these posters as part of your membership package.
Poet
in the
City:
An extraordinary marriage between leading City institutions and the
world of poets and poetry, committed to promoting a love of poetry
amongst City workers and to placing poets in inner city schools.
Poetry
in the News
22 July: The shortlist for the 2004 Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection, worth
£10,000, consists of: Newborn by Kate Clanchy, The Tree House by Kathleen Jamie, The Strange Hours Travellers Keep by August Kleinzahler, Snow Water by Michael Longley and Corpus by Michael Symmons Roberts. Winners will be announced on the 6th October 2004.2 July: Gael Turnbull has died at the age of 76. Born in Scotland, he travelled widely and collaborated with poets in Canada and America as well as Scotland and England. He founded the Migrant Press in 1958. Anvil published a retrospective of his work, A Gathering of Poems, 1950-1980 in 1983. A selected, Time is a Fisherman, is due from Etruscan Books next year.
25 June: Carl Rakosi, the American Objectivist poet, died age 100 in San Francisco.
12 June: Roger
McGough received a CBE, and Pam Ayres, an MBE in the Queen's birthday
honours.
9 June:This year's Eric Gregory Award winners are Abi
Curtis, Nick Laird, Sophie Levy, Elizabeth Manuel and Saradha
Soobraven. The awards, managed by the Society of Authors, are
given each year to promising poets under the age of 30.
This year's Cholmondeley Awards go to John Agard, Ruth
Padel, Lawrence Sail and Eva Salzman.These awards
recognise the achievement of individual poets and their contribution
to poetry. More information from the Society
of Authors.
5 June: "Britain's
best new poets, chosen by a panel of judges for the verve of their
verse. Here Simon Armitage, a former carrier of the flame, hails the
next generation" The Guardian article
here.
"Living poets' society: a new generation is
tipped to scale the literary heights." Independent article
here
For past news,
visit our Poetry
in the News archive
Latest Additions to this Website
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National Poetry Day 2004!
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respect slam update
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National Poetry Competition 2004 launch
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National Poetry Competition 2003 winners & poems
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Poetry Review
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New discounts at bookshops for members!
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New books on members books page!!
The Poetry Society is grateful for the support of Arts Council England, The Baring Foundation, The Foyle Foundation, The Ratiu Family Charitable Foundation and The Moose Foundation for the Arts.
