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Here's a little exercise for people who have very little experience writing poetry. Maybe you had to analyze poems at school and hated it? Well, writing them is fun. The idea is to shape words and lines in a surprising and aesthetic manner and to convey universal or...

You’re worried the jury for the Daniil Pashkoff Prize might not like Science Fiction? Wrong!

As promised, here are two of the poems from yesterday's session: Watching Water Boil Whoever said a watched pot never boils never listened to the soft hum of the water as it unfurls into tendrils of steam, never felt the rising heat warm his face in the morning chill,...

Simone opened the Read-in session with a glorious celebration of her wee daughter, playing and giggling in mountains of cushions; lovely images and lots of motherly love in that poem. Steffi treated us to a social media “ghosting” session, finely crafted and poignant. More of these, please…

Last Saturday our monthly Inkie workshop focussed on autumn – and we also tried our hands at so-called “American Sentences” – a variant on the traditional Japanese haiku that still consists of 17 syllables but throws the line pattern and other haiku rules overboard.