Poetry organiation running VERVE Poetry Festival, year-round projects that champion new voices, and writing community. VERVE is a home for poetry that is live, lived, and alive.
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and you think — well, what about these birds that we have — they’ve vanished. What did they sound like? Tishani Doshi on Egrets, While War. Bloodaxe Books.
"It provides a channel, an outlet for all the frantic over-observation and over-thinking that is with me every waking (and sleeping) moment." Bernadette Lynch, winner of July's Poem of the Month with Nuns.
A monthly writing hour with poems, prompts, and time to write in community with Suzannah Furnass.
The winning poem and shortlisted selection for JULY 2026 Poem of the Month Competition.
An update from our founder and director Stuart Bartholomew on our 10th Anniversary Festival taking place 24th-28th February 2027.
"Writing poetry helps me slow to a pace where I can see more clearly." An interview with Katie Columbus, the poet behind June's Poem of the Month.
A monthly writing hour with poems, prompts, and time to write in community with Suzannah Evans-Furnass.
A monthly writing hour with poems, prompts, and time to write in community with Suzannah Evans-Furnace.
The winning poem and shortlisted selection for JUNE 2026 Poem of the Month Competition.
"In the rest of my life it is loud and busy and chaotic and I flit from one thing to another in a deeply inefficient way." An interview with Nia Broomhall, the poet behind May's Poem of the Month.
