During Lockdown (version 2) Jo Bell, a former Canal Laureate and all round poetry wonder woman, published a daily writing…
Ruth Padel’s Letter to a Young Poet
On Monday this week distinguished poet Ruth Padel gave a reading in the Nottingham Poetry Festival 2020 from her new…
What happens after you win the Foyle?
Annie Katchinska first won the Foyle in 2006. In the fourteen years since, she’s had a vibrant career writing and…
Science and Poetry: Atomic poems
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…
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