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Mental Health Awareness Week: Yvonne Reddick Q+A

WEBMental Health Awareness Week: Yvonne Reddick Q+A. Still from Searching for Snow Hares by Aleksander Domanski and Yvonne Reddick. Yvonne Reddick is a …

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Remember to Have Fun! Writing for Mental Health

WEBWith 80% of young people saying their mental health is worse because of the pandemic, we all need to find ways to be kinder to ourselves. As part of her new campaign …

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Mental Health Awareness Week Q+A: Katie O’Pray

WEBMental Health Awareness Week Q+A: Katie O’Pray. Katie O’Pray at the National Poetry Competition 2024 awards ceremony, photograph by Hayley Madden. Katie O’Pray is the …

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‘The Weariness, the Fever and the Fret’: Writing Illness, Health and

WEB2021 marks 200 years of poet John Keats’s legacy. In honour of Keats200, we have teamed up with writer Amy Mackelden to challenge you to explore illness in your poetry. We …

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Sarah James and Judith Wozniak top Hippocrates Prizes

WEBSarah James (Leavesley) is the winner of the Open Prize and Judith Wozniak has won the Health Professional Prize. This year’s judges were Roland Jackson and …

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Wendy Cope – The Poetry Society: Poems

WEBWendy Cope was born in Erith, Kent in 1945 and read History at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Her poetry collections include Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (1986), Serious …

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Learning from Home – The Poetry Society

WEBWhether you’re a teacher, parent, carer, student or fellow arts organisation, we invite you to make use of our free Learning from Home resources in the sidebar, as well as all our …

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In Flanders Fields – The Poetry Society: Poems

WEBIn Flanders fields the poppies blow. Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky. The larks, still bravely singing, fly. Scarce heard amid the guns below. …

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‘The Weariness, the Fever and the Fret’: Writing Illness, Health and

WEBIn honour of Keats200, the bicentenary celebration of the poet John Keats’s life, works, and legacy, poet Amy Mackelden has set us a new challenge.She offers writing prompts and …

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‘Keen, fitful gusts…’ – The Poetry Society: Poems

WEBKeen, fitful gusts are whisp’ring here and there. Among the bushes half leafless, and dry; The stars look very cold about the sky, And I have many miles on foot to fare. Yet feel I …

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Arts4Us – The Poetry Society

WEBArts4Us is a new project examining arts-based therapies to support the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people. Launching in February 2024, this multi-year …

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William Blake and the Doors of Perception – Young Poets Network

WEBIt is this kind of deep perception: To see a world in a grain of sand. And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. Auguries of …

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New Poems by Young People Published Exploring the Impact of …

WEBThe Ants Look Like Stars by Ella Becker. Do not be afraid of reading this poem. by Maggie Wang. Across the Lake by Madeleine Oliver. A Swim at Midnight by …

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Safety Briefing – The Poetry Society: Poems

WEBtilt a fraction too far. take a beat. Stay calm. Although you’ll be surprised. as the kayak rolls round, and up. turns to down (don’t forget, hold your breath) as canal fills your clothes …

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The Influence of the Earth: A Poetry Challenge with People Need …

WEBIn many cultures, being with nature is a common and essential remedy for loneliness and sickness. Taking in the forest atmosphere or ‘forest bathing’ is referred to as shinrin …

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New £2.5m wellbeing project spotlights mental health benefits of …

WEBA new university-led mental health project for children and young people called Arts4Us has won £2.5m, one of the largest research grants of its kind ever …

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Competitions – Young Poets Network

WEBCompetitions, Open now. Open, closing 31 July 2024. Winchester Poetry Festival and Hampshire Cultural Trust have opened the Hampshire Young Poets Competition 2024 …

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The Poetry Society – Connecting you to the transformative power …

WEBThe Poetry Society was founded in 1909 to promote “a more general recognition and appreciation of poetry”. Since then, it has grown into one of Britain’s most dynamic arts …

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Kathy D’Arcy wins Hippocrates Health Professional Prize

WEBIora Dawes. Cork poet Kathy D’Arcy has won this year’s Hippocrates Prize Health Professional category. Kathy D’Arcy is currently completing an IRC-funded …

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