The Broadsheets offer an unrivalled forum for young poets. The inspiration for these came from Hayden Murphy’s famous Broadsheet, costing 10p, which he produced with vigour and regularity in Dublin in the 1970s. The first two Agenda Broadsheets were colour posters but now the Broadsheets are online. Notes for Broadsheet poets appear towards the end of every issue of Agenda and online.
Along with the Broadsheet, Broadsheet poets are chosen to appear in Agenda, with a spread of up to six poems, for greater recognition.
Submissions
Calling all poets (age 15-mid to late 30s): send your most heartfelt, best crafted poems by e-mail to [email protected] with a short biography, address and age. Please visit the Submissions page for guidelines before submitting.
Young essayists are invited to send in incisive, challenging essays or up-to-date reviews for possible publication in the magazine. (Please avoid academic jargon).Submit to [email protected]
Visit the Submissions page for house style guidelines.
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A subscription to Agenda is vital for you to keep up with contemporary poetry, with new and established voices, with challenging essays and reviews by well-known critics.
You can also stimulate your students by getting them to submit up to six poems each for the Broadsheets for ‘young poets’ (aged 16-mid thirties), with their name, age, address, and email address and workplace, university, school or college, plus a brief biography. Young essayists and reviewers are chosen for each issue of Agenda now, too, so any students with promise in these areas also have a chance to see their work online and claim publication in a worthy journal, which should help with their futures. The first two publications were available as colour posters.
One subscriber, a teacher/lecturer, wrote in to say that he thought every teacher of poetry should have the Notes for your own ‘Peculiar Music’ written by the editor in the Celebratory Issue for William Cookson, Volume 39, No 4.
It is true that many teachers do feel unsure about the teaching of poetry. The regular Notes for Broadsheet Poets about craft, technique, content and critical appreciation should give these teachers more confidence in how to approach poetry, analyse it, and how to inspire their students to write it.
Talented young voices (aged 15-to late thirties) should send up to five poems with their name, age, address, name of workplace/college/university and a brief biography to: [email protected] visit the Submissions page for full guidelines
Young essayists/reviewers are also invited to send in submissions to Agenda, for appearance in the magazine.
No more than two essays or reviews should be sent, including age and a brief biography to: [email protected] visit the Submissions page for housestyle guidelines.