The Speakers’ Corner, the team behind York's monthly poetry and performance nights, have got together with the organisers of the second Malton literature festival to present a poetry slam with cash prizes for the winning poets.
Speakers' Corner host Andy Humphrey will be MC for the night. There will be a special performance from guest judge Tristram Fane Saunders, who has performed at Latitude and supported Luke Wright on his recent tour.
Andy said: "We had a superb turn-out...

There's still plenty of time to enter a Nature poetry competition organised by the RSPB and The Rialto poetry magazine. The deadline is 30 April 2012 – and according to the Rialto, which recently celebrated with relief the renewal of an Arts Council grant for three years, there hasn't been that big a rush of entries so far. The term “nature poetry” will apparently have a very wide interpretation by the judges, who are Sir Andrew Motion, former poet laureate, who names...