"I would not have learned to consider poetry a serious practice—or maybe myself a practitioner in earnest—without my very dear friendships. My friends make language new to me.” Read Cindy Juyoung Ok’s interview with the Forward Prizes forwardartsfoundation.org/in-conversatio…

TODAY we are celebrating Pavilion Poetry whose brilliant and highly selective list is in its 10th year - such wonderful books, like these from Hannah Copley Helen Calcutt Janette Ayachi alice hiller & #BhanuKapil. Find these and more at vervepoetrybookshop.com Deryn Rees-Jones

"Take every opportunity you can – attend every workshop you can, apply for any schemes or mentoring you can. It’s terrifying to put yourself out there, but you’re the only person who can.” Read Nasim Rebecca Asl’s (Nasim Rebecca Asl نسیم اصل) full interview: forwardartsfoundation.org/in-conversatio…

Congratulations to PhD student Charlotte Shevchenko Knight, whose debut anthology has been shortlisted for the Forward Prizes for Poetry, one of the most important awards of its kind in the UK. 👏🙌 Read more 🔗 bit.ly/3WUK5GN. Manchester Writing School Manchester Poetry Library

Congratulations to Tife Kusoro and Nasim Rebecca Asl نسیم اصل, who have been shortlisted for @forwardprizes Tife for Best Single Poem - Written, and Nasim for Best Single Poem - Performed! Find out more in our News section buff.ly/3LR9c7q

Join me for a life stories poetry reading on Wed 14th 7.30 including from STRIKE shortlisted for Forward Prize for Best Collection 2024. feva.info/events/an-even… Bloodaxe Books Seren Stairwell Books The Poetry Business Forward Prizes feva.info

The Poetry Translation Centre is looking for young UK poets (18-26) to join UNDERTOW their artist development programme! Mentoring with Kit Fan! Do you have a mixed heritage/diaspora background & a relationship with a 2nd language? Apply until 18/8 at poetrytranslation.org/undertow

Incredibly sad to hear the news of Fiona's passing. We absolutely love the work The Poetry Exchange has done, and are grateful for the poetry community she's helped to create.

“Don’t get caught up in or frustrated by what each line “means”; if you can, try and identify the overall feelings a poem gives you, good/bad/indifferent, that’s the important thing.” Read the full interview with Toby Campion forwardartsfoundation.org/in-conversatio…

"I find it’s the poeticisms contained in fragments of conversation that affect me the most. It’s kind of confronting, almost a shock to hear language come alive through its spoken utility.” - Eve Esfandiari-Denny, (Eve Esfandiari-Denney) Read the full interview forwardartsfoundation.org/in-conversatio…

Excited for this Poetry Pharmacy and @mindcharity event with Stephen Fry! 📅 Sept 10th, at @rgs_ibg Join Stephen and William Sieghart for a magical evening of healing with poetry + a host of special guests reading soul-soothing poems! Tickets here: bit.ly/Poetry-Pharmac…

'The best poets ... are those who manage to say it how it is without losing a sense of mystery. Poets that aren’t afraid of not knowing. Poets that highlight the hardness and unfairness of life without hiding its hilarity and absurdity.’ - Leyla Josephine forwardartsfoundation.org/in-conversatio…

‘This poem is nothing short of a testament to survival for me. Within it I am questing to understanding who we are in grief, the version of ourself that goes on living whilst a thing we have adored, loved, relished or cherished does not.’ - @scribepedersen forwardartsfoundation.org/poem/what-grie…

'Poetry allowed a reconfiguring all that terrible and delicious aliveness, into a beautiful container. This was the initial appeal of poetry to me – a kind of tender method of witnessing what is perhaps hard to look at.’ - Sanah Ahsan Bloomsbury Books UK forwardartsfoundation.org/in-conversatio…

I had long thought I would write a collection of poems in response to Agnes Martin's paintings, but Victoria Chang has actually done it! #WithMyBackToTheWorld, published in the UK by Corsair Books, is shortlisted for the Forward Prizes and looks incredible.

‘that the book exists in the world still feels a bit like having one’s insides on a billboard ... but to write them gave me a way to be with various challenges and so I hope they can provide some company for others too.’ Jasmine Ann Cooray @BadBettyPress forwardartsfoundation.org/in-conversatio…

Forward Prizes shortlisted: Sarah Wimbush "has achieved the extraordinary, creating a collection, harnessed tightly by formal poetic devices, which opens doors to those who might not read contemporary poetry." Stairwell Books ImaginedSpaces dura-dundee.org.uk/2024/09/02/str…

‘push outside of your comfort zone – read in subjects and in forms you wouldn’t normally pick up. Think about why certain work moves you, what impact the writing has on the reader.’ - Marjorie Lotfi Bloodaxe Books forwardartsfoundation.org/in-conversatio…

'The path is often long, windy, and filled with doubt. Be all the kinder for it, to others and yourself. And if there are roadblocks along the way, it usually means you are going in the right direction.' @KellyMichels The Gallery Press forwardartsfoundation.org/in-conversatio…

Such a powerful poem from [...] by Fady Joudah featured as Guardian Books poem of the week! 📚You can read more and order your copy here as part of our Forward Prizes bundle offer > poetrybooks.co.uk/products/forwa…