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Soundworlds and Songscapes: A Poetry Challenge with People Need Nature

Shhh… can you hear that? We’re teaming up with People Need Nature and poet Polly Atkin to challenge you to think about the role sound plays in our relationship with nature. Send us poems about cooing pigeons, chattering chaffinches, bickering blackbirds… People Need Nature is a charity created to highlight the value of nature in […]

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Reinventing Myth: Poetry and Mythology Challenge

Out with the old, in with the… old? Poets have been using ancient mythology as the basis for their writing for hundreds of years: today, we’re challenging you to re-invent myths, and even make up some of your own! As part of this challenge, we ran a free online writing workshop for 14-25s on Saturday […]

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How I wrote it: Frank Qi on his winning poem ‘Hometown Eulogy’

Ever read a poem and wondered how exactly the poet did it? We caught up with Frank Qi, a Top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2023, about how he wrote his winning poem ‘Hometown Eulogy.’ When I was beginning to write ‘Hometown Eulogy,’ I was on a plane heading back […]

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Poetry Playlist: LGBT+ History Month

February is LGBT+ History Month, so we’ve put together a handful of our favourite poems by queer poets, ranging from thousands of years ago to the present day: enjoy! Mary Jean Chan, Names ‘Chan perfectly captures the feeling of telling half-truths about partners to parents – a very relatable experience for many queer people… The […]

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After * / / /Total/ / / * by Anna Gilmore Heezen





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Two bags of chips……………………………………………………………….£4.00
grabbed unkindly from the man down Caroline Street...……...……………….£5.00
—another regret………………………………….……………………..………£5.00
for when you wake up…………………………………………………………..£2.00
& forget where you are…………………………………………………………£10.00
for the fifth time this week…………………………………………….………£50.00





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Ella’s crying a little drunkly……………………………………………………..£3.00
& that blue-eyed boy is eyeing you up…………………………………………£15.00
or the chips……………………………………………………………………..£4.00
you can’t tell……………………………………………………………………£20.00





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You’ll want this back, though…………………………..……………………….. £???
Not the boy…………………………………………………………………… £2.00
or Ella………………………………………………………………………….. £5.00
or how every step seems to cost you something……..……...…………………… £???
but to be able to forget everything………………………..……………………… £???
with the bite of one chip……………………………………………..………. £00.08
tearing away the skins…………………………………………………………. £00.00
which are a little grey but mostly gold, gold…………………………………….£00.00
and plentiful……………………………………………………………………£00.00
more than you can really eat……………………………………………….…..£00.00
— because, you realise, with a start……………………………………………..£5.00
you haven’t felt full in a week………………………………………………….£50.00





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Student Finance

by Anna Jones

Winner, Here and Now Youth Culture Challenge