Andrew Jamison

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Enter The Poet's Workshop Poetry Prize 2026 for free here . The Deadline is 31.01.26. This is the final video in this series of tips for getting your poems ready to enter competitions.

Enter the TPW Poetry Prize 2026 for free here .

Enter The Poet's Workshop Poetry Prize here for free.

Enter The Poet's Workshop Poetry Prize 2026 here for free.

Enter The Poet's Workshop Poetry Prize for free here.

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Discover 7 new ways to think about your poem's title. Remember to subscribe for more weekly posts like this here . The title of a poem is not just for Christmas. A title can surprise, beguile, intrigue, shock, but they should never be dull - with the possibilities at your disposal, there’s really no excuse for a poor title. And particularly now when the reader’s attention is stretched and the demands upon their attention have never been higher. If your title is to do one thi

Discover Andrew's advice on improving the opening line of your poem. What’s so important about an opening line? Will your first line run on from your title? Will it speak to or against your title? There is so much that can be achieved with the opening line of a poem. By the same token, though, if mishandled or dealt with lazily there is a lot that can be lost there too, not least the reader’s attention. So, in this guide, I’ve tried to summarise some key advice to you as some

We're going back to basics in this week's writing prompt with Andrew.

Subscribe to my weekly newsletter for free here , and get my latest writing delivered to your inbox every Monday morning. This is a picture of me writing at my desk, taken by my wife, Aimee. I’ve now been writing a blog for three months, and in this post I wanted to take stock and reflect on why I started writing a blog in the first place. It’s Enjoyable Some people might say blogs have had their day, particularly with the advent of Substack, but I don’t think so. I already

Submitting your work to journals for publication is an exciting aspect of being a writer. I can vividly remember in the early days of my...

Try out Andrew's latest weekly writing prompt and see where it takes your writing.

To accompany the other posts I’ve written about questions to ask before and after you’ve written a poem, I thought I’d write another one concerned with the questions we should be asking ourselves while we’re writing. It’s important that as you develop your writing practice that you develop your inner critic, which is a voice which asks you questions as you write, such as the following: Do I need this word? At every point of your writing, you should be thinking about the purp

"As a general rule, these are the five questions I'll ask myself at the end of writing a poem..." As a follow-up to my previous post...

Blank verse brings the music of everyday language to life. Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter , meaning it has 10 syllables with...

If you’re an aspiring writer and often find yourself wondering how to take the next step with your writing or maybe you want more...

Swans We Cannot See was my third collection of poetry and in this post I want to give you an idea of what went into it, how I wrote it...