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The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is 'Poetry Understands' by Vautaw

This week's Poem of the Week is 'Poetry Understands' by Vautaw, a deceptively simple rhyming piece that praises poetry for its ability to understand our 'broken hearts', our 'rainy days' and 'lonely nights'. Here we have poetry as a constant, something to look for when we feel low, when we need it most. We see how poetry can be used as a mirror, to look at ourselves, or to help answer life's great questions.

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News and Opinion

Competitions » Patience Agbabi to judge Marsden the Poetry Village competition on 'Together' theme

by News desk

Patience Agbabi will be judging an international poetry competition run by Marsden the Poetry Village for poems submitted on the theme of “Together”, ...

7th Mar 2019 10:03 am

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News » Luke Wright named in three categories in Saboteur awards shortlists

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Leading spoken word performer Luke Wright has made the Saboteur awards shortlists in three categories, it has been announced after the first round of ...

16th Apr 2019 10:43 am

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Events » Robert Garnham and Annum Salman are Write Out Loud guest poets at Woking literary festival

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Guest poets Robert Garnham and Annum Salman will be performing along with a great number of open-mic poets over five hours at Poetry Day on Saturday 2...

22nd Apr 2019 10:38 am

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The Great Fogginzo's Wider Web » Blank notebook pages and first-line nerves

by John Foggin

A sort of mea culpa to start with on this ridiculously lovely Easter Sunday. I’m pretty sure I promised you a guest poet today, and I have her poems a...

21st Apr 2019 12:09 pm

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American Life in Poetry » 'Even then they looked alive, survivors with no sickness to survive'

by Ted Kooser, US poet laureate

There's a lot of very wordy poetry these days, but here is a poem of only around 120 words in which every choice is necessary. I recently accepted ano...

23rd Apr 2019 9:46 am

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Publication news » Chris Armstrong's poems about love, loss and Wales

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This week sees the publication of Mostly Welsh, a collection of poems by Write Out Loud regular Chris Armstrong. The collection blends the historic wi...

19th Apr 2019 9:17 pm

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Review » Difficult Women: Nicola Jackson, Indigo Dreams

by Carla Scarano D'Antonio

The absorbing poetry of Nicola Jackson in this collection, which jointly won the 2017 Geoff Stevens Memorial Prize, grips the reader’s attention with ...

23rd Apr 2019 12:00 am

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