I can finally share with you my prize-winning poem Arboretum Shapes. (It won first prize in the Nottingham Green Spaces … More
Tag: poetry writing
Finding & Keeping Poetry: The Harold Rosen Lecture, NATE Annual Conference 2016
‘Finding and Keeping Poetry’ is the title for the Harold Rosen Lecture I will be giving in June. The keynote is … More
Appeal to the Grammarians by Paul Violi : The Poetry Foundation
Paul Violi’s ‘Appeal to the Grammarians’: a fantastic poem arguing for new punctuation mark
Thanks to Ash Dickinson and Brenda Ainsley for their excellent contributions to yesterday’s Making Poetry Happen workshop at NWS. Both … More
‘Poems should give us pictures in our head’
Children from Torriano Infants School (in Sue Ellis and Amy Clifford’s chapter, Making Poetry Happen). If you want to know … More
Do poets need rhymes?
Claudia Hammond’s ‘Mind Changers’ on Friday on BBC Radio 4 was about ‘Abraham Maslow and the Hierarchy of Needs’. This … More
Sue Dymoke Poetry 