You can find out in detail about the NHS Charities Together Covid-19 Urgent Appeal here. But below is a summary of where the money goes, taken from th...

Write Out Loud is grateful for the support of BBC Casualty producer Dafydd Llewellyn and actors Gabriella Leon, Kirsty Mitchell and Olivia D'Lima, all...

Here are a few tips to consider before entering Write Out Loud’s Beyond the Storm poetry competition:

Patience Agbabi, writing last year about the ...

Write Out Loud’s Beyond the Storm competition judge Andrew McMillan has outlined the kind of poems he is looking for when he sifts through shortlisted...

As confusion lingers over government plans for some children to return to school very soon, performance poet Emma Purshouse has reacted by producing h...

The writer and poet Michael Rosen is still in hospital, eight weeks after falling ill, his wife said today. Emma-Louise Williams posted a message on T...

During the coronavirus shutdown Write Out Loud is looking back at some wonderful live poetry moments over the last few years … and re-running some of ...

Ted Hughes is said to have told Wendy Cope in 1992: “I like your deadpan fearless sort of way of whacking the nail on the head – when everybody else i...

A leading scholar has been given access to thousands of previously unpublished letters to Philip Larkin from his long-term lover Monica Jones that rev...

Last week we mentioned that earlier this month a virtual poetry night in Chester was visited by five poets from Manila in the Philippines. It was 2.15...

I’ve shown you a couple of poems from the anthology, Local News: Poetry About Small Towns, from MWPH Books, PO Box 8, in Fairwater, WI. Here’s another...

Thomas McColl is engaging to meet, a quality that fully comes across in this collection of 25 poems that is deeply sceptical about the internet, kicks...