Poetry Review

Oct 3, 2024 | poetrysociety.org.uk | Ben Rogers

Happy National Poetry Day!This year’s National Poetry Day is on the theme of ‘Counting’ and to celebrate The Poetry Society has an array of activities throughout the day including announcements of the Stanza Competition winners, a collaboration with Poetry Takeaway, a Young Poets Network takeover Zoom event, an open mic event at the Poetry Cafe, a poetry world record breaking attempt, a new National Poetry Competition resource, a multiple choice quiz – more details here and below.

Jan 29, 2024 | poetrysociety.org.uk | Ben Rogers

Jason Allen-Paisant has won the T. S. Eliot Prize with his second collection Self-Portrait as Othello, published by Carcanet Press. The judges Paul Muldoon (Chair), Sasha Dugdale and Denise Saul said:‘Self-Portrait as Othello is a book with large ambitions that are met with great imaginative capacity, freshness and technical flair. As the title would suggest, the poetry is delivered with theatricality and in a range of voices and registers, across geographies and eras.

Jul 11, 2023 | poetrysociety.org.uk | Fran Lock

And he says I have this hardly originalhole inside of me; that I am two thingsinfinitely: carnal and futile. He’s right. I am a bad wife, a wanting quarryof witless worry; lank rage, grim schlock,and stroppy poverty. I am sleazed inthe green of The Land, raining downher birdsong in blows. The dubbycrush of my keening does his head in. I sink kisses into screams like pushingpennies into mud. And he says he is done.

Feb 2, 2022 | poetrysociety.org.uk | Mike Sims

Jan 19, 2022 | poetrysociety.org.uk | Mike Sims