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Epic Poetry

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Fairly new website offering the classics, especially for students of English. The range goes from Ovid to the Mahabharata.

Best Poems Encyclopedia

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Large collection of poems listed by author nationality.  Also offers poets the ability to submit their poems and get them published online.

Famous Poems, Quotes and Poetry

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A carefully selected collection of some of the best poems and quotes on a variety of topics written by famous poets and for different occasions, including Love, Easter, Christmas, Birthday, Weddings, Valentine's Day and Grief.

Words That Rhyme

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If you're trying to find words thatt rhyme to write rhyming poetry, this site will help. http://words-that-rhyme.com/

Poetry Bookshop Online

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Ambitious brand-new online bookselling site, set up by the Poetry Book SocietySpecialist book club founded by T S Eliot in 1953, which aims to offer the best new poetry published in the UK and Ireland. Members buy at 25% discount. The PBS has a handsome new website at  www.poetrybooks.co.uk, which offers 90,000 poetry titles available in the UK and continuously updated news, articles, poetry events, updates and information about poetry. www.poetrybookshoponline.com

World of Poetry

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If you'd like to share your poetry and see a constantly-changing array of poems, this website might be for you. There's a free trial but annual membership costs $34.95 (£17.15). http://www.worldofpoets.com

Deep Underground Poetry Community

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You can join this poetry community which invites you to read and publish edgy, dark and dirty poems. Not for everyone, but certainly rather challenging. http://deepundergroundpoetry.com

Sheer Poetry

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Subscription-based new site offering a collection of materials on poetry and poets by the poets themselves, with resources for teachers and students, workshops and libraries, interviews, essays and articles. http://www.sheerpoetry.co.uk/

Poem2Day

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Submit your poems to this site to get them published online, 48 hour response guaranteed. They are looking for 'warm, inspired, quality poems in English'. http://poem2day.blogspot.com/

Poetry Book Society

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Specialist book club founded by T S Eliot in 1953, which aims to offer the best new poetry published in the UK and Ireland. Members buy at 25% discount. The PBS has a handsome new website at  www.poetrybooks.co.uk

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11 February 2019 - What's new

February 2019
  • ‘I never planned to be a writer. It is a very odd way to make a living. Just telling lies... I do have a visceral sense of breaking through the shell of something when I walk into my study in the morning. Now I just go and do it.
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The Moth Short Story Prize 2019

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Closing date: 
30 June 2019
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Open to any writer over 16 from anywhere in the world Entry fee €15 per story
Prize: 
1st prize €3,000, 2nd prize week-long writing retreat at Circle of Misse in France plus €250 travel stipend and 3rd prize €1,000

This year's judge is Kit de Waal.

The Prize is open to anyone (over 16), as long as the work is original and previously unpublished. There is a word limit of 5,000 words.

The winners will be announced in September 2019 and all three stories will appear in the autumn issue of the Morh Magazine.  Read more

'Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.'

— Anne Lamott

"Why am I writing this?"

11 February 2019

‘I never planned to be a writer. It is a very odd way to make a living. Just telling lies...

I do have a visceral sense of breaking through the shell of something when I walk into my study in the morning. Now I just go and do it. Sometimes it doesn't go well, but most often, I'll look up and it's time for lunch and I don't know what happened...  Read more