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Editors: Geoff Lowe and Trevor Millum

Visit Trevor's Poetry Place at www.teachit.co.uk/poetryplace. It's mainly for teachers but has some reflections on the writing (and reading) of poetry which may be of interest. The blog (Writer's Studio), the Street Corner and the Pub are likely to be the best places to drop by.

Psychopoetica is a poetry website.
We add new ones as time permits.
See below to see how to submit poems.
Please take a look to get an idea of the sort of things we like - and don't like.

Last print edition PP47
was published Spring 2001 by
Dept of Psychology
University Of Hull
HULL HU6 7RX

Poetry Submissions

What do we like?

Short, probably unrhymed, poems
Experimental poems
Poems with guts, humour, vivid imagery
Poems which shift boundaries, punch and twist, play with words

What don't we like?

Self-indulgent therapeutic poems (unless very good and very original)
Sweetly inspirational Patience Strong verses
Writing, full of strong feelings, but which hasn't really been crafted into poetry

How can you tell what we like?

Get some back copies
Have a look at some examples (see above)

Please email submissions (be succinct!) to psychopoetica@fernhse.demon.co.uk

Artwork is frequently added; you can send in your own, too.

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