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Multi-award-winning poet Don Mee Choi will be making a rare visit to the UK to give this year's Poetry Society Annual Lecture on Thursday 9 May 2024, 7pm. Book your ticket here:

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we should be careful of each other, we should be kind while there is still time Philip Larkin

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Welcome back @MichaelRosenYes !

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Congratulations and welcome to our new Poet Laureate Simon Armitage

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History says don’t hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed for tidal wave Of justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme. Seamus Heaney

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Joy Harjo named U.S. Poet Laureate. The Oklahoma-born writer, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, is the first Native American to hold the post.

Joy Harjo Is Named U.S. Poet Laureate (Published 2019)

The Oklahoma-born writer, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, is the first Native American to hold the post.

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And the winner of the National Poetry Competition 2021 is... Eric Yip for his poem 'Fricatives'! #NPCAwards2021

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we should be careful of each other, we should be kind while there is still time. Larkin

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We’re so saddened by today’s news of the death of the incomparable Benjamin Zephaniah - what a legacy - what a loss.

Writer and poet Benjamin Zephaniah dies aged 65 - BBC News

Zephaniah, who was recently diagnosed with a brain tumour, is remembered as a "beautiful human being".

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Life is short, though I keep this from my children. @maggiesmithpoet

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HAPPY NATIONAL POETRY DAY! We hope you get to write, read, perform or recite a poem today or ALL of the above! #nationalpoetryday2020

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes… Judi Dench reciting Shakespeare’s sonnet 29 on Graham Norton.

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Judi Dench was on Graham Norton last night to push her new book about her life and work with Shakespeare. After making the point we quote Shakespeare daily without knowing it, this happened:

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HAPPY NATIONAL POETRY DAY!!!

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Like the whole poetry community, we are in shock and distress at today's news. The Poetry Café at 22 Betterton Street in London will be open today to hold space for anyone who wants to sit and be together. We will provide hot drinks. All are welcome to drop in from 5pm til late.

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#280characters This is just to say... William Carlos Williams I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold

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“Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - Emily Dickinson

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Today I want to resolve nothing. I only want to walk a little longer in the cold blessing of the rain, and lift my face to it. Kim Addonizio

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Please read a poem by Derek Walcott today

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And the winner of the National Poetry Competition 2020 is... Marvin Thompson for the poem 'The Fruit of the Spirit is Love (Galatians 5:22)'! #npcawards2020

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It's #WorldPoetryDay today. All our warmest wishes to poets and poetry-lovers everywhere. 🌍❤

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Toni Morrison: 'I want to feel what I feel. Even if it's not happiness'

Nobel prize-winning author Toni Morrison talks to Emma Brockes about being a single mother, the death of her son and why love doesn't last

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Finally I saw that worrying had come to nothing. And gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang. Mary Oliver

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The winner of the 2018 #TedHughesAward for New Work in Poetry is Raymond Antrobus for The Perseverance. Congratulations!

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HAPPY NATIONAL POETRY DAY! 😁😍🤗

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When some people talk about money They speak as if it were a mysterious lover From The Good Life by new US Poet Laureate Tracy K Smith

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And the winner of the 2018 #NationalPoetryCompetition is Wayne Holloway-Smith @hollawaynesmith for ‘The posh mums are boxing in the square’. Read Wayne’s poem right here:

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As our thoughts remain with Gboyega Odubanjo, his family and friends, we wanted to share some personal reflections. Wayne Holloway-Smith, editor of The Poetry Review shares his here: If you have thoughts you'd like to share, please add them below.

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Congratulations to the winner of the @tseliotprize - announced tonight as @JTaylorTrash BIG LOVE from everyone at the @PoetrySociety

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Poets! What's your favourite line from a #DavidBowie song?

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no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark […] you have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land Home, Warsan Shire

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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. Emily Dickinson

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"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming." -- Pablo Neruda

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“I now stir the skies” We are so sad to learn of the death of poet Jean Binta Breeze, much loved Jamaican-Londoner. Sharing below, her poem Rising, recently displayed on the tube as a Poems on the Underground poster.

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That was astonishing, @TheAmandaGorman !

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Ocean Vuong, the award-winning poet who came to the US with his family aged two as a refugee from Vietnam, is one of seven writers to be awarded a so-called “genius grant” of $625,000 (£504,000) by the MacArthur Foundation.

$625,000 'genius grants' go to Ocean Vuong and six other writers

The MacArthur Foundation honours, which encourage winners to ‘continue to innovate’, also won by Valeria Luiselli, Lynda Berry and Emily Wilson

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"The late poet Mary Oliver warned against looking without noticing. In an age of distraction, her work is more urgent than ever"

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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; 200 years of Keats's To Autumn

It’s the 200th anniversary of John Keats writing his famous ‘Ode to Autumn’

September 2019 marks 200 years since ‘Ode to Autumn’ was written by John Keats, the tragic Romantic genius who died of tuberculosis at the…

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May your 2018 see plenty of new poems for you - whether you write them, perform them, hear them or read them x

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What cannot be said will be wept

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Poets of Twitter. All poets have a lack of confidence from time to time and not sure if they'll ever write another (good) one. What words of advice would YOU give?

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So many fantastic poets reading at this Medical Aid for Palestine fundraiser this Monday (30 October, 7pm) - booking link below

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**UPDATED** Please join us for an online fundraiser 🔴 Poets for Palestine ⚫️ Mon 30 Oct 7pm UK 🟢 raising funds for @MedicalAidPal

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World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The drunkenness of things being various. Louis Macneice

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This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath, the door of a vanished house left ajar Margaret Atwood

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Happy #NationalPoetryDay ! We hope you're FREE to read, write, hear or perform a poem.

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#SnowWatch In the sound of a few leaves, Which is the sound of the land Full of the same wind That is blowing in the same bare place For the listener, who listens in the snow, And, nothing himself, beholds Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. Wallace Stevens

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Now you're telling me You're not nostalgic Then give me another word for it You who are so good with words And at keeping things vague Because I need some of that vagueness now Happy 80th birthday Joan Baez Diamonds and Rust

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I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes Langston Hughes

'I, too, sing America': readers share poetry to conquer hate

After four congresswomen faced racist attacks last week, we asked Guardian readers to share inspiring lines from poems and literature about overcoming hate

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“I’ve survived! And came home yesterday” @MichaelRosenYes

Michael Rosen home from intensive care after coronavirus

The 74-year-old children’s author tweeted ‘I’ve survived!’ after leaving hospital, having been admitted at the end of March

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Hope is the thing with feathers Emily Dickinson

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History says, don't hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme. Seamus Heaney

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💚💚💚 Our latest magazines were posted in compostable, polythene-free bags, (mainly potato & maize starch) - so when it degrades it won't leave microplastics in the soil or watercourse. @PoetrySociety members - did you notice? what do you think? Pic 'recycled' from @Memashma

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I could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue And I must face the men I slew. Kipling

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#Passchendaele We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. John McCrae, 1872-1918

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“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” – Toni Morrison

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The winner of the 2017 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry is Jay Bernard. Congratulations!

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Ariana Reines @arianareines wins the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for 2020 at Claremont Graduate University. Tiana Clark’s @TianaClarkPoet 'I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood' wins the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award.

Poet Ariana Reines wins the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for 2020 at Claremont Graduate...

Tiana Clark’s ‘I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood’ wins the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award.

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#PoetAsFood Elizabeth Barrett Brownie

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Why books are great #readabookday

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The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don’t mind happiness not always being so very much fun if you don’t mind a touch of hell now and then just when everything is fine - Ferlinghetti

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Meet the poet who prescribes verse instead of pills to patients

Poetry Pharmacy: Meet the poet who prescribes verse instead of pills to 'patients'

Based in the Shropshire town of Bishops Castle, the business is the brain child of poet Deborah Alma.

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let me be this unguarded always speaking without need of words because breath is the oldest language any of us know Kayo Chingonyi, from A Blood Condition. Hear Kayo read on 30 November from 7pm at our Poetry Society zoom reading.

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Your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness. Bukowski

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Last night’s London fireworks from @MayorofLondon @SadiqKhan featured words from @GeorgeThePoet

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London stands together against racism. Tonight and always #BlackLivesMatter @GeorgeThePoet

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The National Poetry Competition 2021 is now launched! Judges @rachelnalong , David Constantine and Fiona Benson are looking for poems which tell the truth, catch the heart and tilt the world. Artwork: Whooli Chen #nationalpoetrycompetition #getwriting

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#LikeAGirl We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. Maya Angelou

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The Poetry Society is pleased to announce that the award-winning poet Wayne-Holloway Smith will be taking up the position of Editor at #ThePoetryReview . Read more here:

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I come and stand at every door But none can hear my silent tread I knock and yet remain unseen For I am dead for I am dead I’m only seven though I died In Hiroshima long ago I’m seven now as I was then When children die they do not grow... #Hiroshima75

‘Hiroshima Child’ a poem by Nazim Hikmet

‘Hiroshima Child’ I come and stand at every door But none can hear my silent tread I knock and yet remain unseen For I am dead for I am dead I’m only seven though I died In Hirosh…

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'You'll have to die to get these texts': Ocean Vuong’s next manuscript to be unveiled in 94 years time Vietnamese-American author and poet joins Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Karl Ove Knausgård to lock away work in Norway to be published in 2114

'You'll have to die to get these texts': Ocean Vuong’s next manuscript to be unveiled in 2114

Vietnamese-American author and poet joins Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Karl Ove Knausgård to lock away work in Norway to be published in 94 years’ time

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Announcing the shortlist for the 2018 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry:

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'Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.' Kahlil Gibran Lebanese-American poet

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Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— I, too, am America Langston Hughes

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And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. “Late Fragment” #poem by Raymond Carver

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Big love to everyone who came together at the Poetry Cafe tonight to share tales of Gboyega - especially the kind soul who dropped by specially to bring a bounty of fruit and biscuits for everyone. Such warmth and such sadness.

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Like the whole poetry community, we are in shock and distress at today's news. The Poetry Café at 22 Betterton Street in London will be open today to hold space for anyone who wants to sit and be together. We will provide hot drinks. All are welcome to drop in from 5pm til late.

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The Poetry Society turns 115 today!

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UK's first sign language poetry slam - BBC Ideas

This is a video about deaf poets, who have been fighting it out in the UK's first ever poetry slam for users of sign language.

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Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. WS Merwin, Separation

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Plath! a-ah Saviour of the Universe Plath! a-ah She'll save every one of us #PutPoetsInThings

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FEAR By Charles Simic Fear passes from man to man Unknowing, As one leaf passes its shudder To another. All at once the whole tree is trembling And there is no sign of the wind.

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Dorothy Parker #botd And what goes on, my love, while you're away, You'll never know.

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Auden: “I don’t go along with all this talk of a generation gap. We’re all contemporaries. Anyone walking this earth at this moment. There’s a certain difference in memories, that’s all. We’re all contemporaries, facing contemporary problems.”

WH Auden: 'my only duty as a poet is to defend the use of language' - archive, 4 Sept 1970

4 September 1970: Auden discusses his new commonplace book, A Certain World, and the relation between politics and art

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#fly Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? From The Fly by William Blake

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Meet The Poetry Review Summer 2023! Featuring Kim Addonizio, Caroline Bird, Mimi Khalvati, Eve Esfandiari-Denney, Momtaza Mehri, Padraig Regan and many more… Pick up your copy at

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The family of Gboyega Odubanjo have released a statement (in thread below) and also created a page to accept contributions to honour him in a new Foundation and cover final arrangements.

Gboyega Odubanjo – beloved son, brother, friend, organized by Rose Odubanjo

Loved by many and widely recognised as a voice of his generation, 27-yea… Rose Odubanjo needs your support for Gboyega Odubanjo – beloved son, brother, friend

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(i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands ee cummings

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"It wasn’t my fault, the things he made could be undone so easily – and we would keep losing connection." The winner of the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, judged by Ocean Vuong, is Raymond Antrobus ( @RaymondAntrobus ) for his poem 'Sound Machine'! Read more at:

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#PutPoetsInThings Elizabeth Barrett Brownies

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"The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it." ― Dylan Thomas Happy #StDavidsDay ! Hapus Dydd Dewi Sant! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Congratulations to the winner of the TS Eliot Prize - just announced as….Jason Allen Paisant. And congratulations to the wonderful shortlist.

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Announcement time: The 2018 National Poetry Competition will be judged by... Kei Miller, Kim Moore and Mark Waldron! Win up to £5000 and publication in The Poetry Review and winners' anthology. The judges read all entries: enter now at !

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Dylan Thomas. No reason. Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

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Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear And the rocks melt wi’ the sun I will love thee still, my dear While the sands o’ life shall run And fare thee weel, my only luve And fare thee weel awhile And I will come again, my luve Though it were ten thousand mile #BurnsNight2019

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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Tennyson

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When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire, The brief sun flames the ice From Little Gidding, TS Eliot #wintersolstice

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"The sea is as near as we come to another world." Anne Stevenson

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Awarded a CBE: Professor Jacqueline Margaret Kay, MBE, FRSE. Makar. For services to Literature. (Greater Manchester)

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Why children need poetry

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We're hiring! Want to come and be a part of our lively Education Team? We're looking for a new Education Co-ordinator: someone to look after @youngpoetsnet and our Poets in Schools service. Details here Deadline: 3 July Send us your shiniest CVs!

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Kaveh Akbar @KavehAkbar : Poems are rarely on the side of power. What would a poem in praise of the political status quo look like? A brochure? White text on a red baseball cap?

Throwing Weight Into Sound: Kaveh Akbar on Poetry and Power

“I’ve been thinking a lot about bells, how it’s the heft of a body that makes a bell ring,” the poet Kaveh Akbar tells Kevin Young.

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In a new podcast, the US poet laureate will read you poetry for five minutes a day

Tracy K. Smith's "The Slowdown" will be available for download starting Nov. 26.

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