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I’ve just come across this in The Guardian (also known as The Grundian by the spelling police). Every month a poet (recent poets were John Hartley Williams, Mathew Sweeney, Fiona Sampson, and Daljit Nagra) sets a writing exercise, chooses some responses, and gives an appraisal of the selected responses. The October workshop is due soon so bookmark it if you’re interested: The Guardian Poetry Workshop

Also in The Guardian, an article proving that 44 year old poets can start rock bands if they want to (yes, 60 year old accountants would have been astonishing but oh well let’s run with this one instead) Simon Armitage, born in Huddersfield in 1963, has recently done just that with The Scaremongers