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Gemma Green took part in Helen Mort's Autumn online course 'Poetry and the Supernatural' and was given a number of tasks to create poems around the theme of supernatural. With one of the poems she created on the course, Gemma came second in the annual International Plough Prize for the short poem category. Here, we showcase the winning poem and another of Gemma's short pieces.

Malika Booker is a British writer and multidisciplinary artist of Guyanese and Grenadian Parentage. Her poems have been widely published in anthologies and journals including Wasafiri, The Penguin Anthology of New Black Writing, and Ten New Poets (Bloodaxe, 2010). Her CV is a flurrey of writerly activity, and we're lucky enough to have her teaching for us in the Spring Term on a course 'Mapping Poetries', the idea for which actually came out of a Poetry School workshop that Malika took as a student. Here, she talks to us about 'Malika's Kitchen', geographical hybrids and her next collection.

School's officially in! The summer's been busy with bookings and now that we're about to embark on a new year of learning, we thought we'd show those of you who've signed up (and those of you who haven't!) what to expect after the initial sign up is done.

Are we all present and correct?

Fabulous bowlcuts not compulsory, but they are encouraged.

In January, the Poetry School launched a new community writing project in South Kilburn as part of a series of public art projects for the South Kilburn Neighbourhood Trust.