Poetry writing development research
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.
We love a poem at Young Poets’ Stories, so to mark National Poetry Day 2020, we’re sharing our favourite poems…
Vicky Macleroy is a Reader in Education at Goldsmiths, University of London. Alongside Jim Anderson, Vicky has led the ‘Critical…
During what has been a very strange July and August 2020 for everyone we have really enjoyed interviewing our sample…
I’m on the Bedford embankment, ‘taking life one step at a time’. I am finding my way. My…
Today we post an update to our Reading Resources for Young Poets page. Here are some of the links…
For many young people, their only exposure to poetry is through their English teacher. Reading and analysing poetry…
‘The Past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.’ I went to school in the 1980s, before the…
I’m the Learning and Participation Manager at The Poetry Society. Before that, I was Head of Programmes at The Poetry…
The Foyle Young Poets winners (and highly commended poets) have been coming to The Hurst, Arvon’s writing centre in Shropshire,…
