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Lorraine Mariner: Poetry at the Imagine Children's Festival 2025 childrenspoetrysummit.com/20… via @kidspoetsummit
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A big thank you to Will and everyone at the @natpoetrylib for an amazing visit! The children had a great time exploring the library and learning about all things poetry! 📚
Have an idea for a poetry event?
We're now inviting proposals for our 2025-26 Special Edition programme, seeking proposals for events in the NPL from a broad range of organisers, poets and poetry enthusiasts!
Apply by 5pm Wed 5 Feb 2025 - more info here: southbankcentre.co.uk/venues…
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Huge congratulations to Peter Gizzi, for winning the 2024 @tseliotprize with his collection 'Fierce Elegy'!
We're delighted to announce that the winner of this year's T. S. Eliot Prize is Peter Gizzi with Fierce Elegy, published by Penguin Poetry @PenguinUKBooks
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Applications are now open for The London Library Emerging Writers Programme 2025/26!
Applications are free and close at 11am, Wednesday 26 February 2025.
📖 Find full details, guidelines, and FAQs here: londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us…
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Some news! The wonderful team at Stratford East and I have been working on something special: a night of poetry and music. Please come! Link to tix 👉stratfordeast.com/whats-on/a…
The @RoundhouseLDN Poetry Slam is now open for applications from poets aged 18-25
Apply for your chance to win £2,000 cash, get mentoring from award-winning poets and have your poems in performance professionally filmed
Apply by 3 Feb
Find out more: roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/p…
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We're delighted to partner again on the 'Best Imagined Sound' category in this year's @sound_awards!
Submissions are now open, until 28th February 2025.
More info here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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🗣️Calling all poets!
Fancy a mini residency at a local football club? We're looking for five poets to unite fans across generations by sharing their stories through poetry. Celebrate your community’s voice on and off the pitch!
Info: literacytrust.org.uk/program…
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For our Best Imagined Sound category we’ve partnered with @natpoetrylib to celebrate submissions that describe or depict sounds. These could be poetic, pictorial, or conceptual and should encourage an engagement with the imagination.
Submit here: forms.gle/miMt42cBokpcMz8fA
Still some tickets available for our next Special Edition: Working at Working Class. This Wed 4 Dec 2024, 8pm
Join @GodzillaKent poet & editor of @brokensleep for readings & a Q&A with Fran Lock, @lalah_springer & @stu_mcpherson_
More info & tickets⬇️
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I am 3 weeks away from my due date (can’t wait to meet baby!) so this was probably the last visit to my exhibition at the @natpoetrylib! I loved going through the exhibition’s visitors book and seeing all the nice comments. ❤️
The Family Morning taking place @southbankcentre on Sat 14 Dec 2024, 11am will include a book swap!
Bring a gently-loved children's book to swap & sustainably discover a new adventure for your little one's to enjoy.
Find out more about the morning here:
southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-…
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Join us for a Poetry Adventure with award-winning children's poet @WakelingKate this February half-term!
A playful interactive poetry workshop taking off on Tue 18 Feb 2025, 10.45am Expect baddies, comets and weird cakes! 🤖☄️🧁
Tickets here 👇
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Can you help us find someone's lost poem about a lost tree?
We're looking for a poem about losing a tree you love which compares it to having a missing tooth that you keep looking for with your tongue.
#NPLLostQuotes
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🔥 Announcing the 2024-25 UNDERTOW Cohort! 🔥
The Poetry Translation Centre is thrilled to announce the 2024-25 cohort for the UNDERTOW multilingual poet development scheme. The six poets were selected by lead Kit Fan.
Full announcement: bit.ly/3ZdjFBl
Next Wed 13 Nov, 7pm we have a free Latinx Online Showcase.
Discover new poetry & ideas about writing, activism & creativity from contemporary Latinx poets at work today, in Spanish & English
#Latinx #Poetry
More info & #Free tickets ⬇️
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Save the date! Wed 13rd Nov @londonspanishbf at the Latinx Online Showcase @natpoetrylib southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-…
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