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As 2025 draws to a close, we’re looking back at some highlights from our activity across the year. It has been a packed programme of events and publications, encompassing everything from our longstanding talent development schemes, the National Poetry Competition, Young Poets Network, and Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, which saw record-breaking engagement, to our quarte...


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The Poetry Society is sad to report the death of Christopher M James, the representative for The Poetry Society’s French online Stanza group, who passed away peacefully on Thursday, 20 November 2025, after a long battle with cancer. Christopher remained deeply engaged with poetry to the end of his life, having just published award-winning poems...


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An independent review of Arts Council England has been published today, presenting the findings of an evaluation chaired by Baroness Margaret Hodge. The Review makes 21 recommendations, saying “the government can and must find innovative ways of responding urgently to the underfunding that has undermined the arts over the last decade” and that ACE should invest in a “comprehe...


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The Winter 2025 issue of The Poetry Review features new poetry from Gillian Allnutt, Courtney Conrad, Rachel Long, Glyn Maxwell, John McCullough, Chelsey Minnis, Blake Morrison, Jean Sprackland, Kandace Siobhan Walker,


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Today, The Poetry Society and T.S. Eliot Prize are pleased to publish the ten video reviews created by this year’s participants in the Young Critics Scheme.

Following a series of criticism workshops led by The Poetry Society, this year’s Young Critics – Anisha Jaya Minocha, Anna Jones, Aphra Le Levier-Bennett, Caleb Simon, Freya Gillard, Ishita Upp...


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