Check out Judi Moore’s review of ‘Jiggle Sac’ by OU Poet, Sue Spiers. Click here.

A bumper edition of the Society’s workshop magazine will be arriving this week . Edited by Kimberley Pulling, the magazine contains 124 poems from its members. This includes poems undertaken at the Society’s annual writing weekend with tutor, Hilary Hares. The Editor’s choices are: Jacob Lund’s “Us“, new member Rob Lowe’s “The Red Address Book” and Polly Stretton’s “Make-up Bag“. Congratulations to all three! You can read these poems on the Editor’s Choice page.

The Open University Freshers Fortnight is starting next week and the societies’ Facebook chat is on Wednesday 29 January. Why not use this opportunity to find out more about the Poetry Society of the Open University. Click here for the Facebook link. We look forward to talking to you!

Work is currently being undertaken on Openings 37, the 2020 edition of the Open University Poetry Society’s annual anthology. Sue Spiers, its current editor, writes about its production in The Hoot. Click here to read the article. Click here to read the article.

Sue was recently placed 3rd in the 2019 Battered Moon Poetry Competition with her poem, “Wheatfield with Cypresses”.

A belated congratulations to OU Poet, Judi Moore, whose poems came first and third in the inaugural Sturminster Newton 2019 poetry competition! Well done, Judi!

We’re delighted to announce that ‘Miscarried’ by OUPS member, Nigel Kent, has been nominated by Hedgehog Poetry Press for the 2020 Pushcart Prize, the literary prize for the best poetry, short story or ‘literary whatnot’ published by small presses in the previous year. ‘Miscarried’ was published in his first collection, Saudade, in October 2019.

Belated congratulations to our member, Vicki Morley, for her success in this year’s Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year competition. Her poem “Fudo in the British Museum” was one of nine shortlisted.