Special Interest Groups and Mailing Lists

Response writing is an wonderful way to get yourself writing, and can have an immediacy about it that other types of writing do not. However the most common way to […]

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Guest Bloggers

Poetry and Me – Guest Blogger

Biography Mab Jones is the first ever Resident Poet in the National Botanic Garden of Wales. She is a comic, social media tartlet, event organiser, and all-round ‘litrepreneur’. Her “delightful […]

Exercises

Belief

This graffiti was found on boarding in Gloucester City UK, it is a fun yet deep depiction of a deer who’s shadow spells the word believe. What does this picture […]

Exercises

Cats

Love them or hate them, cats have near 10, 000 years of history in common with us. They were once worshipped as gods, understandable if you think about communities that […]

Exercises

Obsession

Apart from poetry, are you obsessed with anything? Ask yourself the questions: What are you obsessed about? Why are you obsessed about that thing in particular? What extreme actions will […]

About WoPo

That Time of Year Again!

It is the first day of February and that can mean but one thing! That is right – it is poetry writing time! The challenge is to write a poem […]

Exercises

Snow Mesh

Look at the picture above, what does it stay to you? How does it make you feel? Spend 20 minutes writing about the picture, start off by describing what it […]

Exercises

Fill Your Mind With Poetry

Nothing is ever created in a vacuum, everything you see or hear or read or sense, helps build the poems within you. So fill you mind with poetry. Go to […]

Writing Challenges

Month of Poetry

January is of course the Month of Poetry, and what better way to start the new year off? So if you need that little extra push to get yourself writing, […]

Exercises

Happy New Year and Reform the Poetic You

2014 has began and it is time to start a fresh with the writing, if you are anything like us here at WoPo you will find that during the year […]

About WoPo

Goodbye NaPoWriMo

It is the end of yet another poem a day challenge – April’s National Poetry Writing Month. Hopefully you have collected quiet a few first drafts and that the resources […]