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 […]

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Exercises

A Jar of Thoughts

Sometimes ideas pop into your head at the most bizar of moments and what are you to do with them? Sometimes they are no more than a sentence, a word, […]

About WoPo

Happy Poetry New Year 2013!

It’s 2013 and here we go with another year of fantastic poetic license and a site brimming with writing exercises and ideas to get the creativity glands going! Our plans […]

Guest Bloggers

Angela Topping and The Muse

Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion when I found Robert Graves’ book The White Goddess in an obscure corner of the public library. I had […]

Guest Bloggers

What Inpires You – Guest Blog

When Sarah invited me to write something for this blog I asked her what sort of thing she had in mind, and she suggested (as cheesy as it sounds, she […]

Guest Bloggers

Dan Cooper – Guest Blog

Bio: Dan Cooper is a graphic designer, dj, poet and one half of Gloucestershire’s Experimental Electronica and Spoken Word duo Brown Torpedo. He lives in a bungalow in Cheltenham with […]

Guest Bloggers

Let It All Out

On January 20th, I was lucky enough to do a reading of some of my work at the Literature Lounge, which meets every third Thursday of the month at the […]

Reviews and Events

NaPoWriMo

April sees a poem a day challenge inspired by the National Novel Writing Month – NaPoWriMo is National Poem Writing Month. Why not have ago – there are plenty of […]

Exercises

In a Time Gone By

Image copy right belongs to Sarah Snell-Pym To see a larger version of the image just click on it. This medieval youth is about to be plunged into a quest […]

Exercises

Magnets

Magnets attract and repel, they can be used to drive electric motors, they always have two parts which you can’t separate – two poles. Use this concept in reference to […]

Exercises

Talismen

Talismen – a good luck charm or something containing guardian spirits. An object of power or a mental shield? People from many cultures and times have carried them – how […]