Poetry Space provides a platform for the very best
in contemporary poetry from around the world
Established in 2010, Poetry Space is a social enterprise, with all profits being used to widen participation in poetry and to empower people through creativity. Poetry Space is not just about writing poetry and getting published. It is about spending time doing something creative that you enjoy for its own sake. Or bringing joy into someone else’s life by sharing something you have written or made with them.
Please take time to browse this website and enjoy what it has to offer. We are currently taking submissions for Poetry Space Quarterly Showcase. Please read our privacy policy before contacting Poetry Space. The deadline for submission to Poetry Space Summer Showcase is May 10th 2023
Please contact me if you are interested in mentoring to develop your poetry and/or for well-being.
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It is said that in poetry, the unforeseen becomes the indispensable, something we hadn’t predicted suddenly becomes an inseparable part of who we are. So it is, too, with pain and hurt. The work of healing, and of poetry, is to open up spaces of possibility through the darkness of suffering. Judy Dinnen knows all this from deep within her professional work and in her very human soul. Her poems are flickering lights, insightful and humane.
The Rev’d Dr Mark Oakley, Dean, Fellow and Tutor, St John’s College, Cambridge
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A new collection by Anna Maria Mickiewicz : Anna Maria Mickiewicz is an exciting poet who continues the great tradition of Polish literature that questions daily life in a photographic, almost surgical detail, as if seeing the world for the first time. Her writing contains a restless inner voice and questioning of society and, ultimately, of what it is to be human. Michael Brett.
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