Poetry workshop
Every month, a different poet sets an exercise, chooses the most interesting responses from readers and offers an appraisal of them
Poetry workshop: Skin
Rachael Boast discovers some ingenious responses to this month's exercise, and offers some radical feedback
Rachael Boast's poetry workshop
The poet invites us to refresh our sense of something both familiar and strange: the 'border country' of skin
Poetry workshop: Personal archaeology
Jo Bell digs up some treasures written in response to her exercise
Jo Bell's poetry workshop
The poet invites you to consider your personal archaeology. What will the things you leave behind say about you?
Poetry workshop: Names
Colette Bryce admires a lively and rich selection of responses to her exercise
Katharine Towers's poetry workshop
On National Poetry Day, the poet explores this year's theme of 'Home' with her workshop on furniture
Colette Bryce's poetry workshop
The poet invites you to explore the layers of meaning to be found in that obscure but crucial component of identity: your name
Poetry workshop: a rectangular frame
Alan Brownjohn finds much to admire within the four square walls of your poems
Alan Brownjohn's poetry workshop
This month the poet invites you to take a close look at a picture, and see where it leads you
Poetry workshop: Commodity
Tony Williams is intrigued and impressed by the submissions to his workshop on 'commodity', and offers tips on how to improve them further
Poetry workshop: Fathers
Roger Robinson responds to your poems on fatherhood
Tony Williams' poetry workshop
In this month's workshop, Tony Williams asks for your poems on commodities: from lollipops, farmland or petrol to body parts, microchips or precious metals, anything that can be bought and sold
Roger Robinson's workshop
Fathers and fatherhood have spawned much great poetry, and this month poet and creative writing teacher Roger Robinson wants to read your take on this most intimate of subjects
Poetry workshop: heroes and heroines
Glyn Maxwell is impressed by the praise poems submitted for his National Poetry Day-themed workshop
Glyn Maxwell's workshop
The poet, who is shortlisted for the 2009 Forward prize for best collection, invites you to write a praise poem
Poetry workshop: night
John Siddique is enchanted by the glimpse readers have offered into their secret worlds of the night in this month's poetry workshop
John Siddique's workshop
The poet and creative writing teacher invites you to commune with the intimate secrets of the night for this month's exercise
Poetry workshop: collisions
Christopher James is mightily impressed by the readers' incorporation of wildly incompatible components for this month's exercise
Christopher James's workshop
The winner of this year's National Poetry Competition invites you to explore the beauty of collisions in this month's exercise
Poetry workshop: Love poems
Annie Finch is swept off her feet by the love poems submitted in this month's poetry workshop
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