Experiment with writing fibs or atomic poems by using the atomic poetry generator. The generator draws on the Fibonacci sequence, found in the natural world, to determine the word count and line structure of your poem.
Piece on Pandemic by Erin Blaney
Erin Blaney is an A level student at Bilborough College in Nottingham. She wrote her Piece on Pandemic poem very recently. We think she captures in such a spare and thought-provoking way the strange uncertainties and contradictory feelings of the times that she is living through.
Our Favourite Poems
We love a poem at Young Poets’ Stories, so to mark National Poetry Day 2020, we’re sharing our favourite poems…
Young Poets, Creative Multilingualism and Filmmaking
Vicky Macleroy is a Reader in Education at Goldsmiths, University of London. Alongside Jim Anderson, Vicky has led the ‘Critical…
First interviews completed
During what has been a very strange July and August 2020 for everyone we have really enjoyed interviewing our sample…
Writing with your feet
I’m on the Bedford embankment, ‘taking life one step at a time’. I am finding my way. My…
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…
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…
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…
Writing communities
I’m the Learning and Participation Manager at The Poetry Society. Before that, I was Head of Programmes at The Poetry…
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