WB's Poetry Club
A place to kick-start and develop your poems with constructive feedback from your poetry peers.
If You Love To Write Poetry Then Join Us Today
Led by WB’s poetry tutor, Mandy Pannett, members have the chance to explore and develop their poetry writing skills. It is a place to kick-start and develop your poems with constructive feedback from your poetry peers.
Every month a prompt is provided for you to respond to. There is the chance to attend a Zoom session to discuss the prompt and start writing. A space is provided on the website for you to share your work and receive constructive feedback from your fellow poets. You can also read the contributions of other club members. Mandy looks at the work and briefly adds some of her own comments.
Members are encouraged to learn from, and help, each other under the guidance of Mandy.
Monthly Timetable:
Start of each month: The prompt appears in the club house on our website. You are provided with some suggested reading to help you gather your thoughts and ideas.
Second Tuesday of each month at 7.30PM: Mandy leads an hour long Zoom session where you will discuss the prompt and have time to start writing. Don't worry if you can't make it. The session are recorded and made available in the members area for you to watch.
Members can share their poems inspired by the prompt in the club house, at any time during the month, for feedback from fellow members. We expect the poems to be mainly works in progress rather than finished pieces.
Fourth Tuesday of each month: Poems must be uploaded by this date when Mandy will go through the poems and add some light commentary.
Poets of all levels and experience are welcome, including beginners.
Club Fees:
£60 for six months paid up front (you’ll save 20% on club fees by using this plan).
or
£15 per month paid on a monthly basis – cancel when you like.
Free one month trial on each plan.
Poetry Tutor
Mandy Pannett
Mandy Pannett lives in West Sussex. She taught children with special needs for many years but now works freelance as a creative writing tutor for adults.
Her poetry pamphlet ‘The Daedalus Files’ was published by SPM Publications in 2021. Five poetry collections have been previously published: ‘Bee Purple’ and ‘Frost Hollow’ (Oversteps Books), ‘Allotments in the Orbital’ (Searle Publishing), ‘All the Invisibles’ (SPM Publications), ‘Jongleur in the Courtyard’ (Indigo Dreams Publishing). A selection of her poems, ‘Ladders of Glass’, was issued by Integral Contemporary Literature Press with English and Romanian parallel texts.
She enjoys writing short fiction as well and two years ago won a national competition for Vignette writing. She has also judged competitions for Flash Fiction. Two novellas have been published by Independent Presses: ‘The Onion Stone’ (Pewter Rose Press) and ‘The Wulf Enigma’ (Circaidy Gregory Press).
Mandy was also poetry editor for five years for Sentinel Literary Quarterly and has edited anthologies and poetry collections for them and for Earlyworks Press. She has acted as an adjudicator for national competitions and won prizes and been placed herself in several others.
For the last eighteen months she has been collaborating with artist Polly Dutton and musicians Terry Pack and The Full Circle Quartet on ‘The South Downs Suite’, a poetry/music/art project inspired by the South Downs. The Suite is currently being performed at several venues in the area and a book of all the art work and poetry is on sale at events and in galleries and museums.
Her poetry pamphlet ‘The Daedalus Files’ was published by SPM Publications in 2021. Five poetry collections have been previously published: ‘Bee Purple’ and ‘Frost Hollow’ (Oversteps Books), ‘Allotments in the Orbital’ (Searle Publishing), ‘All the Invisibles’ (SPM Publications), ‘Jongleur in the Courtyard’ (Indigo Dreams Publishing). A selection of her poems, ‘Ladders of Glass’, was issued by Integral Contemporary Literature Press with English and Romanian parallel texts.
She enjoys writing short fiction as well and two years ago won a national competition for Vignette writing. She has also judged competitions for Flash Fiction. Two novellas have been published by Independent Presses: ‘The Onion Stone’ (Pewter Rose Press) and ‘The Wulf Enigma’ (Circaidy Gregory Press).
Mandy was also poetry editor for five years for Sentinel Literary Quarterly and has edited anthologies and poetry collections for them and for Earlyworks Press. She has acted as an adjudicator for national competitions and won prizes and been placed herself in several others.
For the last eighteen months she has been collaborating with artist Polly Dutton and musicians Terry Pack and The Full Circle Quartet on ‘The South Downs Suite’, a poetry/music/art project inspired by the South Downs. The Suite is currently being performed at several venues in the area and a book of all the art work and poetry is on sale at events and in galleries and museums.