Magnus Dixon was one of the top 15 Foyle Young Poets of the Year winners last year - the world's largest prize for young writers. This year's prize has just launched and on the search for the finest new writers aged 11-17.
Deadline for entries is the 31st July 2015 - enter online and find out more!
The Poetry Society's programme of events, resources and collaborations marking the centenary of the First World War. Plus a small selection of First World War poetry.
Sketches from the Poem Road,
2 Mar - 25 Apr 2015
Visit the Waterlines website
Four canal-themed filmpoems by poets Jo Bell, Liz Berry, Ian Duhig and Ian McMillan, produced by Alastair Cook and in partnership with The Canal & River Trust
Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition winners: PS member Paul Stephenson, plus Basil du Toit, David Tait, & Luke Samuel Yates. PS Member Keith Hutson 3rd in Yorkshire Poetry Prize for best single poem
Jennifer Moxley wins PSA William Carlos Williams Award for best poetry collection
Oksana Maksymchuk & Max Rosochinsky win the Stephen Spender Prize for translation
Forward Prize judges announced: AL Kennedy, Colette Bryce, Carrie Etter, Warsan Shire & Emma Harding
CONGRATULATIONS PS Members Robin Houghton & Emily Wills 2nd & 3rd in Plough Poetry Prize won by John Foggin
TS Eliot Foundation buys poet's Gloucester summer home
National Book Critics Circle awards: poetry prize goes to Claudia Rankine’s 'Citizen: An American Lyric'
Brunel University African Poetry Prize shortlist includes PS Member Nick Makoha, plus Safia Elhillo, Inua Ellams, Bernard Matambo, Ngwatilo Mawiyoo, Hope Wabuke
Kamau Braithwaite wins Poetry Society of America's Frost Medal for lifetime achievement
Tony Harrison wins the £40k David Cohen Prize for Literature
PS Member Joan Michelson wins Bristol Poetry Prize. Bethany Pope 2nd, Mallory Tater 3rd. PS members David C Johnson, Ama Bolton, Jean Atkin, and Geraldine Clarkson Highly Commended
PS Member Claudia Daventry is inaugural winner of the Ruskin Prize for Poetry
Get Creative campaign hopes to unleash the artist inside Britons
Creativity and culture not open to all, review finds
Philip Levine, former US poet laureate and Pulitzer winner, dies at 87
Martin Green, PS member and co-author of Guide to London Pubs, dies
Rod McKuen, poet and lyricist with vast following, dies at 81
PS Member Rachel McCarthy chosen by Carol Ann Duffy as one of the most exciting new British poets
Hollie McNish wins 2015 Arts Foundation Spoken Word Prize
2015 Ted Slade Award goes to Ronnie Goodyer and Dawn Bauling of Indigo Dreams
PS Member Usha Kishore is the winner of Exiled Writers Ink Poetry Competition
Poetry Society member Stephen Keeler receives £2000 Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award
Angela Readman wins £2000 Charles Causley Poetry Comp. PS Members Jo Haslam, Andrew Rudd 2nd & 3rd. PS Members Victor Tapner & Tania Hershman among the commended.
PS Member Jonathan Davidson wins Cafe Writers Open Poetry Competition, Jo Bell 2nd, Polly Atkin 3rd. PS Member Geraldine Clarkson wins Funniest Poem, PS Members Martyn Crucefix, Lindsey Holland and Di Slaney among commended poets
PS Member success in Cinnamon Press Single Poem Competition. Wendy Klein wins, Jane McLaughlin is joint runner-up, KS Skene highly commended, Nicola Warwick commended
David Harsent wins £20,000 TS Eliot Prize for 'Fire Songs'
PS member Jonathan Edwards wins the £5000 Costa Poetry Prize
We're 'over the moon' to hear that Imtiaz Dharker has been awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
Inua Ellams wins £1000 Live Canon poetry competition
Dylan Thomas' notebook sold for £104k
War poet Isaac Rosenberg recognised in archive footage from the trenches
Poet and long-standing Poetry Society member Susan Grindley has died
PS Member Mara Bergman wins Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet competiton. PS Members Barbara Cumbers, Kathrine Sowerby commended, with Marjorie Lotfi Gill
Claudia Emerson, Pulitzer-winning poet, dies at 57
Rob Auton, Jemima Foxtrot, Sabrina Mahfouz, Hollie McNish & Ross Sutherland shortlisted for Arts Foundation Fellowship award for spoken word
Dan O’Brien wins Troubadour International Poetry Prize
Bloodaxe anthology to be added to mass giveaway on 2015 World Book Night
Mark Strand, former US poet laureate & Pulitzer Prize winner, dies at 80
Poetry Society Member Kathleen Bainbridge 2nd in Flambard Poetry Prize. Alice Allen wins 1st prize.
Pascale Petit, Wendy Cope and Lachlan Mackinnon appointed as Gladstone's Library writers in residence
Michael Marks Award winners: Laura Scott for best poetry pamphlet and Rack Press win publisher award
We are sad to learn of the death of Jon Stallworthy, one of the country's most admired poets
Louise Glück wins National Book Award for 'Faithful and Virtuous Night'
Colette Bryce, Jonathan Edwards, Lavinia Greenlaw & Kei Miller on Costa Poetry shortlist
Clean sweep for PS Members in Torbay Poetry Competition. Carole Bromley wins, Char March 2nd, Ann Pilling and Paul Stephenson joint 3rd. PS Members Andrew Geary, Josh Ekroy, Denise McSheehy and Katherine Gallagher highly commended
Lost Dylan Thomas notebook may cast light on most impenetrable poems
Alexander Hutchison wins Saltire Scottish Poetry Book of the Year, Niall Campbell wins First Book of the Year award
Helen Mort wins the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize
PS Member Jonathan Edwards wins Ledbury Poetry Prize. Jacqueline Saphra 2nd, Laura Seymour 3rd. Foyle Young Poet Isla Anderson wins Young Person Prize
Tragic death of poet Anne Cluysenaar
Ian Galbraith wins Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation
Galway Kinnell, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, dies aged 87
Fran Lock wins Ambit Competition. PS Members Geraldine Clarkson & Catherine Ayres 2nd and 3rd
Poetry Society member Mona Arshi is joint winner of the Manchester Poetry Prize with Michael Hudson
Bridport Poetry Prize won by Poetry Society member Natalya Anderson. Tori Sharpe and Jo Bell 2nd & 3rd. PS Members Alan Buckley, Florence Cox, Jane Dunn, Val Ormrod among highly commended
TS Eliot shortlist: Fiona Benson, John Burnside, Louise Glück, David Harsent, Michael Longley, Ruth Padel, Pascale Petit, Kevin Powers, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Hugo Williams
PS member Rachel Davies wins Wells Festival of Literature Poetry Prize & PS member Carole Bromley 2nd
PS Member Pru Kitching is joint winner of Carers UK Poetry Comp, with Beth McDonough. PS Members Valerie Fry and Marilyn Hammick among the runners-up
John Moat, co-founder of Arvon, dies
Aisling Fahey appointed as new Young Poet Laureate for London
Kei Miller wins Forward Prize for best collection, Liz Berry wins best first collection prize, Steven Santus wins best single poem prize
Dannie Abse, Welsh poet and author, dies aged 91
PS Member Polly Atkin wins Wigtown Poetry Prize
US National Book Award longlist announced
NEXT GENERATION of poets announced by Poetry Book Society: Tara Bergin, Emily Berry, Sean Borodale, Adam Foulds, Annie Freud, Alan Gillis, Rebecca Goss, Jen Hadfield, Emma Jones, Luke Kennard, Melissa Lee-Houghton, Hannah Lowe, Kei Miller, Helen Mort, Daljit Nagra, Heather Phillipson, Kate Tempest, Mark Waldron, Sam Willetts, Jane Yeh
Young Poet Laureate for London shortlist includes PS Members Clare Mulley and Ella Frears, SLAMbassador Aisling Fahey, plus Laurie Bolger, Rachel Long, and Deborah Stevenson
PS Members Anne Stewart & Dorothy Yamamoto 1st and 2nd in Poetry on the Lake open category. Virginia Astley wins sonnet category
Winifred Dawson obituary - Librarian who inspired five of Larkin's poems
Desmond O'Grady, 'a great citizen of world poetry', dies
Robert Hass wins $100k lifetime achievement award
Wasafiri poetry shortlist includes PS members, Ann Kaiser, Mark Fiddes, and Pnina Shinebourne
William Bedford wins The London Magazine's Poetry Competition
William Bedford wins Roundel Poetry Competition. PS member Geraldine Paine 2nd, John Arnold 3rd
New Seamus Heaney anthology includes unseen poem In Time, written for his granddaughter
Simin Behbahani, 'Iran's most famous poet', has died at the age of 87
Niall Campbell wins £20k Edwin Morgan prize
It's 1.2.3 for PS members Maria Jastrzᶒbska, Gill Learner & Elsa Fischer in Grey Hen Poetry Prize
Second Light Poetry Comp: Kate Foley (1st, long poem), Margaret Beston (1st, short poem), Pippa Little (2nd) & Ann Alexander (3rd)
Poet Roddy Lumsden and crime-writer Val McDermid win the Round Britain Quiz