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A Step in the WRITE direction: new poetry workshops

2/2/2023

 
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New six week online poetry workshop, starting March 1st!
​Limited places available.


A Step in the WRITE Direction

Over six weeks, we'll look at writing exercises, prompts, poems, styles, techniques and editing skills, designed to help you hone your craft and writing stronger, punchier, sharper poems.

If you want to take your poetry to the next level, practise your craft, or just be inspired to write more, this is the course for you. We're also look at tips on how to send out your work and get published, as well as how writing can help improve your mental health.

Workshops will be run via Zoom, on Wednesday evenings, 7.30-9.00pm.

Poems for Holocaust Memorial Day 2023

27/1/2023

 
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Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27th 2023 encourages remembrance in a world scarred by genocide.

The international day remembers the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of other people killed under Nazi persecution of other groups and in genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. The theme for 2023 is Ordinary People.

To mark the occasion, we've put together a small collection of poems in memorial, in protest, reflecting or looking forward, poems that lament but also inspire that tie in with the theme of Ordinary People: perpetrators as ordinary people, persecuted people as ordinary people, rescuers as ordinary people, and ordinary people as bystanders.

Many thanks to our our contributors for sharing their work.
Read the pamphlet and download from Rancid Idols Productions.

24 Hour CHapbook challenge IV: sleep

30/12/2022

 
The fourth in our 24-hour chapbook challenges: participants get a one word prompt and a picture, in this case 'Sleep' (1898) by Odilon Redon. Participants reply back with a poem, we compile them into a digital chapbook, and it's online, available for free download, all in the space of 24 hours!

Download for free now at Rancid Idols Productions.


Many thanks to all the participating poets for responding to the prompt. 
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24 hour chapbook challenge III: clothes

7/10/2022

 
The latest in our 24 hour chapbook challenges is available to download now for free via Rancid Idols Productions.
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one minute poems

6/10/2022

 
For Poetry Day UK 2022, we invited poets from around the world to record a one minute poem for this special audio anthology.

Stream and download for free via the Rancid Idols Productions Bandcamp page.


We believe their is power in brevity: in the short, powerful message that leaves no doubt for doubt, misdirection or deviation. Each poem here is that pure distillation of a moment into verse, each poet wielding their language like a sharpened cutlass, quick to slice to the epicentre of their subject.

Many thanks to all our contributing poets. If you've enjoyed listening to them, please go and seek out more of their work. We have only served up to you a small sample of the literary bounty each have to offer.

Happy listening!
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Submission Call: Holocaust Memorial Day 2023

18/8/2022

 
Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27th 2023 encourages remembrance in a world scarred by genocide. The international day remembers the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of other people killed under Nazi persecution of other groups and in genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. The theme for 2023 is Ordinary People.
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We are looking for poems in memorial, in protest, reflecting or looking forward, poems that lament but also inspire that tie in with the theme of Ordinary People: perpetrators as ordinary people, persecuted people as ordinary people, rescuers as ordinary people, and ordinary people as bystanders

All accepted poems will be published in a free downloadable e-pamphlet, to be released on HMD 2023.

​To help inspire you, read more about this year's theme on the HMD website, and have a look at our HMD anthology from 2016.

Submission Guidelines:
Send a maximum of three poems in one Word document.
Please include a brief third-person biog with your submission (max. 50 words).
Email your poems to thepenpointsnorth@outlook.com.
Deadline: 18th December 2022.

Panning for Poems Issue 13

17/8/2022

 
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It's been a while gestating over the period of the pandemic, but at long last, here is Issue 13 of Panning For Poems, our micropoetry broadside!

Issue Thirteen features: Eilín de Paor, Diarmuid ó Maolalaí, ​Karen Neuberg, Madelaine Smith, Conor Orrico, Mark Ward, Changming Yuam, Mari Maxwell, Attracta Fahy, Paul Butterfield Jr. and John Caulfield.

Submissions now open for future issues.

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