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Orginally published March 2023 You know what it's like to sit in the dark and watch something unfold To wrap yourself in the night the...

Select a text that you have to read and use strategies of permutation to find new meaning, or to creatively read that text into the form...

Find a line of text. Write a poem in free verse with no end-rhymes that uses this line as its starting point or as the basis for the...

Think of a contemporary subject and how you would use the ballad form to give voice to it. What you would write about, and how you would...

Write at least four lines of non-rhyming, free-verse poetry (in any style, on any topic). Think carefully about where you break your...

Take a line of iambic tetrametre you wrote in the Larkin exercise and write a poem of three four-line stanzas. Originally published in...