August 08

We are delighted to announce that Dame Vera Lynn has become the patron of FLOWforALL and therefore of Forces Poetry and Forces Stories also.

11 Nov 07

Aled Jones Kindly mentions our site during his Sunday show, thanks for your help Aled!

09 Nov 07:

Mac just did a live interview with Glen Mansell on BFBS 2 at about 16:50 for 5 minutes discussing Forces Poetry. Thanks to Glen for the Interview, Will for setting it up and Colin for starting things rolling for us. Here it is .....

09 Nov 07:

We are being mentioned on the Aled Jones show on Radio Wales this Sunday, nice to be mentioned as doing something worthwhile, we must be getting it right.

02 Nov 07:

We are going to be having an interview with Army Wife Talk Radio on 21 Jan discussing what the site is about and how we help others. The show will be recorded and you can listen to it at your leisure.

28 Oct 07

We have a group on FaceBook thanks to Lisa who started it off for us.

01 Aug 06:

I have been asked by St Dunstans http://www.st-dunstans.org.uk if we can make the site accessable for their members who are visually impaired. I have looked into costs and it seems to be a very expensive piece of work quoted at over £2000 in most cases. If you have any contacts, know people who do this type of work etc, please let me know. Our membership is still small so it would be silly to expect us to donate sufficient funds in a short time (unless of course you know a wealthy person who is just longing to spend a few bob on a cause such as ours). All ideas and suggestions are very welcome.

The Forces Poetry website went live on the 01 August 2005. We hope to attract as many people and organisations linked to armed forces or just people who have some forces related poetry to share with others.

We invite any organisation to link to our site, any regimental website's, magazines or newsletters and the like are very welcome to spread the word.  We hope to hold our first awards for 2006 in May where a panel of invited people will select a winner from all the poems on the site.  We hope to be able to offer a small prize to the winner as well but we can't promise anything for certain.

Please spread the word as we know that there are many people out there who have poems to write on so many topics which somehow relate to life in the armed forces.

If you know of a link being placed to our site please let us know and we'll check it out and probably reciprocate the gesture.

If you wish to submit a poem but remain annonymous, tell us what email address you'd like ending in @forcespoetry.co.uk and we'll arrange it and send the details to you. 

For example - yourname@forcespoetry.co.uk

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