Some Wasted Potential

The artist Some Wasted Poetential produces etheral electronic music and backroom style videos that are poignant and intriguing. They have also told us here at WoPo that they would be […]

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About WoPo

World Poetry Writing and What Not

WoPo originally started as a month long writing drive or prompt a day, initially as a group of friends meeting in coffee shops in Cheltenham here in the UK and […]

Exercises

The Art of Collaboration

Writing can be lonely, and that isn’t always a bad thing; in fact the peace and quiet can give you the space to think and to form ideas that would […]

Exercises

Happy New Year 2026

It is that time of year again when we all start to think about what is on the writery horizon! Here at team WoPo we have been thinking about pacing […]

Resources

Prompt Sites 2025

Prompts are a valuable way to get you writing – they may not produce the poems or stories that you are looking for but they are a good way of […]

Exercises

Word Poems and Pubs

If you can’t do pubs or just don’t want to you can substitute a cafe or some other outing for this exercise. Go to a pub and get settled in, […]

Exercises

Loosing Your Heads!

If you have Post Traumatic Stress or similar it is recommended that you write from the image and we suggest you ignore the exercise below. Have you ever had that […]

Exercises

Lip Balm Monster

One of the reasons putting goggly eyes on things is so funny is because it turns the inanimate object into something we see as animate – it turns and object […]

Exercises

Morris and More

In recent years The Morris Dance and related activities have seen a huge surge in popularity across Europe with new forms appearing along side the more Traditional sides or groups. […]

Exercises

High in the Sky

This image shows the silhouette of a small plane flying on a bright blue sky. Write for 15 mins about what that must feel like or what can be seen […]