CORONAVIRUS CRISIS: Popular poetry group launches anthology after being flooded with pandemic poems
Less than a month ago, poet Janine Booth set up a Facebook group for fellow poets wanting to write about the issues and experiences that people were facing during the coronavirus crisis – and was amazed at the response. Within one week the CoronaVerses: poems from the pandemic group had enough poems for an e-anthology, which has just been launched. A print edition is intended to follow. All the poems in the anthology were post...
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Profits from a poetry anthology about the NHS, These are the Hands, have raised £2,000 for the NHS Charities Together Covid 19 Emergency fund since th...
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Every night since the lockdown leading performance poet Luke Wright has been appearing on Twitter in his living room at 8pm – and last night was his 1...
7th Apr 2020 8:29 pm
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7th Apr 2020 11:02 am
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7th Apr 2020 1:49 pm
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 ...
2nd Apr 2020 9:39 am
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2nd Apr 2020 9:10 am
Andrew McMillan will be judging the £1,000 Winchester poetry prize. The deadline is 31 July. More details
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4th Apr 2020 10:16 am
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7th Apr 2020 12:00 am
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