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Poetry School tutor, Tamar Yoseloff, and our programme and marketing officer, Julia Bird, are two of the ten poets who were commissioned to write about artworks in the Hayward Gallery’s Light Show exhibition, and then asked to perform their new poems in the gallery at the beginning of April. Tammy wrote about Cerith Wyn Evans’ pieceS=U=P=E=R=S=T=R=U=C=T=U=R=E, and Julia about Katie Paterson’s Light Bulb to Simulate Moonlight. Here, they talk about their experience.

David Attwooll lives in Oxford where he works in publishing and plays drums in a street band. His poems have been published in various magazines (including Smith's Knoll, Magma, The Rialto, and The Reader) and a selection is in Carcanet's Oxford Poets 2013 Anthology (published in June 2013). He was a member of Katy Evans-Bush's online forum course with The Poetry School and has just won the Poetry Businesses annual Book and Pamphlet competition. 

 Earlier this year, we set a challenge for our online students to write a poem to be illustrated for our Spring programme on the theme of Transformation. After lots of impressive submissions, we chose a poem by Selina Rodrigues, Tattooing Summer, to be illustrated by Jack Hudson, who also illustrated our Autumn programme cover. Selina and Jack worked together to create the cover now gracing our new programme. 

Amali Rodrigo lives in Mumbai, India. Her poems have appeared in Magma, Poetry London and PN Review. In 2012 she won second Prize in the Poetry London competition, was shortlisted for the Wasafiri Prize and won 1st prize in the Magma poetry competition. Now that the Poetry London prize is open again, we talk to her about the poem she entered and how it felt to win.

 Poetry School and Pighog press are pleased to announce the shortlist for their inaugural pamphlet competition. After receiving over 450 entries, judges Julia Bird and Ciaran O’Driscoll can reveal the twelve poets on the shortlist.