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Young Poets' Stories

Poetry writing development research

  • Young Poets’ Stories research project
  • Call out for Young Poet participants
  • The Research Team
  • About the Advisory Board
  • About Foyle Young Poets of the Year
  • Writing resources for Young Poets
  • Reading resources for Young Poets

Author: Anthony Wilson

I am a lecturer, poet and writing tutor. I work in teacher and medical education at the University of Exeter. My anthology Lifesaving Poems, based on the blog of the same name, is available from Bloodaxe Books. Love for Now, my memoir of cancer, is published by Impress Books. Deck Shoes, a book of prose memoir and criticism, and The Afterlife, my fifth book of poems, are available now from Impress Books and Worple Press. My current research project is Young Poets' Stories: https://youngpoetsstories.com/. This blog is archived by the British Library.

Writing with your feet

    I’m on the Bedford embankment, ‘taking life one step at a time’. I am finding my way. My … More

Free Writing, Grief, Robert Macfarlane, Writing, Writing and Walking, Writing Groups

More reading resources for young poets

  Today we post an update to our Reading Resources for Young Poets page. Here are some of the links … More

Being a Poet, Foyle Young Poets, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poems, Reading Poetry, Reading Resources, Young Poets

Embedding Poetry Writing into the Curriculum: Tips for English Teachers

    For many young people, their only exposure to poetry is through their English teacher. Reading and analysing poetry … More

Education, Foyle Young Poets, Poetry, Poetry Writing, Poets, Reading Poetry, Teaching Poems, Teaching Poetry, Teaching Poetry Writing, The Poetry Society, Writing Development, Writing resources, Young Poets, Young Poets' Stories

A Not So Young Person’s Story

‘The Past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.’ I went to school in the 1980s, before the … More

Arvon, Becoming a Poet, Being a Poet, Ian McMillan, John Cooper Clarke, Joolz, Keats, Lumb Bank, Nik Toczek, The Smiths, Yeats

Writing communities

I’m the Learning and Participation Manager at The Poetry Society. Before that, I was Head of Programmes at The Poetry … More

Arvon, Being a Poet, Developing as a Writer, Finding Your Tribe, Foyle Young Poets, Foyle Young Poets of the Year, Julia Bird, The Foyle Foundation, The Poetry Society, Writing Communities, Writing Development

Building community at The Hurst

The Foyle Young Poets winners (and highly commended poets) have been coming to The Hurst, Arvon’s writing centre in Shropshire, … More

Arvon, Arvon Foundation, Foyle Young Poets, The Hurst, Young Poets, Young Poets' Stories

Welcome to Richard Bromhall

I’m Richard, and I’m delighted to join the Young Poets’ Stories project as an administrator. I’ve worked with young people … More

Coronavirus, Foyle Young Poets, Letters of Solidarity, Lockdown, Nottingham City of Literature, Richard Bromhall, UNESCO City of Literature, Young Poets, Young Poets' Stories

On Bart Simpson and Blake’s Tyger

The Tyger Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy … More

Bart Simpson, Education, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Teaching Poems, Teaching Poetry, The Simpsons, The Tyger, William Blake

Poetry, Friendship and Bravery: The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award

  It is certainly a strange world at the moment, even more so with the current Covid-19 pandemic, and whilst … More

Alice Watson, Arvon Foundation, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Education, Foyle Young Poets, Foyle Young Poets of the Year, Poetry Writing, Teaching Poetry, Teaching Poetry Writing, The Hurst, The Poetry Society

Reading resources for young poets

Coronavirus, Covid-19, Poems, Poetry, Poetry Reading, Poets, Reading Poems, Reading Poetry
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