Poet Matt Abbott speaks to an audience of school students int he AESSEAL factory.

Poet Nathan performs a poem in front of a blue Poetry Society banner.

Pupils look at the pond on the AESSEAL tree walk, with a sign in the foreground saying Wetlands Wildlife with illustrations of plants and animals.

A hand holds an orange bookmark saying The Poetry Society in front of a sign illustrated with families enjoying Rotherham, with a tent labelled Made in Rotherham in the background.

Well done to all the young poets who wowed us with their poems on climate change at today's Imagining a Greener Future poetry showcase in Rotherham!

Thank you to project partner AESSEAL, the 5 local schools who took part, host @mattabbottpoet.com & #FoyleYoungPoet and guest reader Nathan Graham.

Stoneware dish: Longquan kilns An animation by Aindri C, using poem and voice by Sarah Howe, created in collaboration with Oxford University for TIDEfest 2021. Produced by poetrycinema.

We’re proud to have commissioned some of the work that appears in Foretokens as part of a collaboration with Oxford University for TIDEfest 2021. Watch an animation of Stoneware dish: Longquan kilns here vimeo.com/596602888

Like Isabelle, Sarah was also once a #FoyleYoungPoet! 🎉

Next up, Isabelle Baafi, fresh from winning the Jerwood Prize for best first collection. Young Critic Jay Mitra describes Chaotic Good as ‘thought-provoking, challenging & playful’
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Isabelle is a former #FoyleYoungPoet so we are chuffed as chips she's shortlisted!

The best recent poetry – review roundup Midden Witch by Fiona Benson; Dwell by Simon Armitage; Nature Matters edited by Mona Arshi & Karen McCarthy Woolf; Lode by Gillian Allnutt; Silk Work by Imogen Cassels; A History of Western Music by A...

Great to see former #FoyleYoungPoet Imogen Cassel's Silk Work in the Guardian's round up of the best recent poetry (thanks @betarish.bsky.social!)

We're celebrating the book along with Theophilus Kwek's new book Commonwealth in the Poetry Cafe, 9 June. Join us!

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'2013, and Daedalus never moved away for work' by #FoyleYoungPoet Lewis Corry featured in the spring 2025 Poems on the Underground

2013, and Daedalus never moved away for work - Lewis Corry bike-strung boy sun-licked spark of rubber and steel you soar down the driveway arms spread like wings it is a wonderful thing to fly and there is no greater occasion than being alive

In case you missed it, #FoyleYoungPoet Lewis Corry's poem '2013, and Daedalus never moved away for work' is featured in the latest set of Poems on the Underground.

Watch Lewis talking about what poetry means to him on BBC London: (about 25 minutes in!) bbc.in/41wMfyM