The Poetry Society

Membership Packages

The Education department has helped bring poetry to life in schools for over thirty years.

Schools membership

£30 for Primary Schools (1 year) or £70 (3 years)
£50 for Secondary Schools (1 year) or £120 (3 years)
£50 for libraries and other institutions (1 year)

Benefits of our school membership include:

• access to our "Poets in Schools" consultancy service offering advice about working with poets in education, and access to our nationwide network of experienced poets (normally £25 per use). Our poets work effectively in many contexts, whether in a school, a university, a library or a youth centre, and they can tailor workshops, readings and performances to suit any topic. (Please note: the poet will still have to be paid - it is our consultancy fee that will be waived for members. For further information, please email).
• a 10% discount on Poetryclass, our unique INSET training days with professional poets, which aims to take the fear out of teaching poetry.
• free poetry anthologies such as the TES Book of Young Poets (for Primary Schools) and Poems of the Decade (for Secondary Schools), amongst other poetry collections.
• both primary and secondary schools receive four copies of Poetry News, our quarterly membership newsletter which updates everyone on what is currently happening in the poetry world, with advice on reading and writing poetry, as well as a section devoted to education.
• secondary schools also receive four copies of Poetry Review, Britain's leading poetry magazine, which brings together both new and established contemporary poets, alongside reviews and essays.
• three sets of six Poems on the Underground posters, as displayed on the London Underground.

Resources

To complement classroom teaching, the department has produced an exciting range of resources, developed alongside experts in the field of poetry teaching.

These include:

• The Poetry Book for Primary Schools (ed. Anthony Wilson & Sian Hughes)
• Jumpstart Poetry in the Secondary School (ed. Cliff Yates)
• an attractive range of poster sets with teachers notes.
  More information here.

 

National Poetry Day

The Education department also plays a key role in organising National Poetry Day, which takes place on the first Thursday of October every year. The Foyle Young Poets of the Year award ceremony takes place on National Poetry Day, and all over the country, schools and libraries will be marking the occasion with special events. For further details about working with poets and organising your event on National Poetry Day, click here.

Membership Packages for Schools and Libraries

Primary Schools (£30) will receive a special members' discount for our INSET training programme poetryclass, free poetry anthologies, a year's subscription to The Poetry Society's consultancy service which offers advice on poets working in schools, quarterly copies of our newsletter, Poetry News, and a year's subscription to Poems on the Underground, which includes three sets of six posters.

Secondary Schools (£50) will receive a special members' discount for our INSET training programme poetryclass, free poetry anthologies, a year's subscription to The Poetry Society's consultancy service which offers advice on poets working in schools, and quarterly copies of Poetry Review and Poetry News, and a year's subscription to Poems on the Underground, which includes three sets of six posters.

Libraries and Other Institutions (£50) will receive quarterly copies of Poetry Review, Britain's best-selling poetry magazine, Poetry News, the Society's newsletter, and a free National Poetry Day Poster. Libraries also receive a special Library Poetry Pack, complete with colour posters, advice and ideas, which was conceived in consultation with librarians, to promote poetry and develop its readership.

For youth membership package, click here.

Subscription Only

Poems on the Underground (£20) - full subscription
For just £20.00, each subscriber gets three sets of six posters per year. Each set features favourite poems drawn from throughout English literary history. The posters are excellent for display in the classroom, library, staff room or even at home!

Poems on the Underground has been named Britain's most popular art form! Poems on the Underground have been displaying poems on London tubes since 1986, offering poetry from the earliest times to the present to a mass public. Within a short time, similar programmes sprang up in cities across Europe and beyond, including Dublin, Paris, Barcelona, Stockholm, New York and San Francisco.

Poems are selected and the programme administered by writer Judith Chernaik, and poets Gerard Benson and Cicely Herbert.

(Individual posters can be ordered - click here for order form)

Choose the method of payment that suits you

If you would like to enrol online (Visa, Mastercard or Switch only), please enter the Poetry Shop and select 'Membership'.

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