'The Concrete Road' by Becky Sowray is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week

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The new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘The Concrete Road’ by Becky Sowray. On her profile page Becky describes herself as living “the ordinary dream in an off-white tower, getting high on radio-noise whilst sharpening her words. A literary-emo-goth-rock-refugee, keeping the faith in all things local. Writer and secret extrovert.” You can find a little more information about her here, where she explains: "The first paid jo...

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News » 'A burnt matchbox in the sky': Ben Okri's angry poem about Grenfell Tower

Novelist and poet Ben Okri has written a powerful, angry poem about the victims of Grenfell Tower, who died when their tower block in Kensington was e...

28th Jun 2017 12:44 pm

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News » 'Ye are many - they are few!' Jeremy Corbyn quotes Shelley at Glastonbury

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn enlisted the power of poetry when he delivered a rousing speech to thousands at Glastonbury music festival at the weekend....

28th Jun 2017 12:44 pm

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News » Tony Walsh's Manchester poem 'This is The Place' is released as a single

Tony Walsh’s poem ‘This is The Place’, which went global after he read it at the vigil for the Manchester Arena bombing victims, has been released as ...

28th Jun 2017 12:43 pm

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Review » Spaced out on cosmic poetry in starry night at the Troubadour

Out in space the numbers are mind-boggling – and so it proved at Monday’s reading at the Troubadour, too. I’m still trying to get my head round the fa...

28th Jun 2017 12:32 pm

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News » Derek Walcott museum in St Lucia closes after budget cut and tourism row

A museum in St Lucia on the site of the boyhood home of the Nobel prize-winning poet and playwright Derek Walcott has closed amid a funding shortfall ...

28th Jun 2017 12:31 pm

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Young Write Out Loud » Penelope Wilton lends a hand at launch of poems written by pupils in literacy project

TV, film and stage star Dame Penelope Wilton was at Square Chapel Arts Centre, Halifax to launch and read from a collection of poems written by Halifa...

28th Jun 2017 12:31 pm

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American Life in Poetry » 'Boys who knew when you were posing, waiting for someone to say, "smile" '

"You can't go home again," said Thomas Wolfe, and you can't put your hand in the same river twice. Change is relentless. But we can still, in memory, ...

28th Jun 2017 12:30 pm

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Review » Articles of War: Marilyn Longstaff, Smokestack

Marilyn Longstaff has published four poetry collections: Puritan Games (2001), Sitting Among the Hoppers (2004) and Raiment (2010). Articles of War, b...

28th Jun 2017 12:30 pm

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