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The Poetry Police formed in June of 2015 in response to a number of poetry crimes committed in the Irish Poetry Community. With a culmination of over 50 years of life experience, infinite poetic depth, and 5 years stringent work infiltrating various poetry cliques via Twitter. Michael Naghten Shanks and Alvy Carragher seek to write, legislate and enforce (by whatever means necessary) a poetic code of conduct. They specialise in poetic paranoia, rhyming red herrings and various war crimes. You can follow their journey fighting crimes against poetry @MichaelNShanks and @ALVYCARRAGHER on twitter.

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Name-dropping Obscure Poets and Forming Poetry Cliques

The Poetry Police Aug 7, 2015 0

Forming a poetry clique is a difficult thing to master. Staying in one is slightly harder. This is a part of poethood that many poets fall short in. They sit there, cursing that joke too many and staring at their peers all hanging out in…

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The Poetry Police Bring You How to Dress Like a Poet

The Poetry Police Jul 2, 2015 0

It’s important that when trying to dress like a poet, you don’t make many of the rookie-poet mistakes. We’ve put together this guide in order to keep your dress code poetic and to stop you making common mistakes. You can thank us later.…