Changing lives through poetry

GPS Friendship Membership 

Do you want to be a part of something that brings solidarity between all types of poetry writers and performers? Do you believe that poetry is for everyone and should be all-inclusive?

Our members share in our values and passion to create a space where all poets are supported in an honest and open environment. For self-development, learning and promotion, and to share their love of poetry.

Joining is easy:

1) Click the button below to make your annual Friendship Membership payment. Once paid, you will be taken to the member’s area.

2) When that’s done, you have the option to join our Free Closed Facebook Group and be part of that international community of poets and poetry lovers.

Friendship Membership
£20.00
Every year

Your membership payment is handled through Stripe and paid using a credit or debit card.
Your annual membership with renew automatically. Please make a note of your joining date so that you know when your renewal payment will be taken.
You can cancel your membership within your membership account.

2024 Membership Benefits

Benefits for 2024 include:

  • Free entry of up to three poems into our submission opportunities. Winners and Commended poets will be published in Steel Jackdaw Magazine.

  • A free poem critique. Please email the society to request this.

  • NEW for 2025! A FREE website listing in our brand-new Friendship Directory – coming soon. Your own bio page with links.

Increasing the number of ‘Paid’ Members will help the society to develop new opportunities for our members and keep pace with the costs of running the Society.


The FREE Option

As we believe that poetry is for all, that is why we have a FREE Closed Facebook Group for people to share their work. This closed facebook group is for sharing work, posting about events and general poetry news but the work shared will not be critiqued.

This is very much an open space and has limited moderating.

As a closed group, any work shared will not be classed as being published and can freely be submitted to competitions and publications.

However, we run a number of publishing opportunities for our paid and free members and any work shared in this group can be selected for these. We always notify successfully selected poets to ensure that there are no issues with cross submissions elsewhere.

Would you like to get more involved?

As a forward thinking Society we are always on the look out for new talent and passionate people to join the GPS support Team.

If you love poetry and share are all inclusive ethos that poetry is for all to enjoy and would like to help the Society to reach new audiences, improve skills and involve all communities, we’d love to hear from you.

Interested?

Get in touch and tell us about yourself and your passion for poetry.