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'My Point is Circular' by Alexandra Parapadakis is Poem of the Week

The new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘My Point is Circular’ by Alexandra Parapadakis. The last line of her poem says: “Ask me what I mean!” So we did. Alexandra said that the poem “tries to comment on the paranoia and guilt that rape culture and victim blaming can cause its victims”, and does this in an “inner conversation that the speaking is having with herself”. She has recently graduated from the University of East A...

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News » Yomi Sode, Anthony Joseph, and Hafsah Aneela Bashir awarded £15,000 Jerwood Fellowships

by News desk

Hafsah Aneela Bashir, Anthony Joseph and Yomi Sode have been chosen as Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellows for 2019-20. Each poet receives £15,000, and is ...

17th Jun 2019 12:21 pm

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News » A villanelle for the cup that cheers: Julian Jordon's poem accompanies Refugee Week animation

by News desk

Refugee Week begins today, Monday 17 June – and Write Out Loud is playing its part. Write Out Loud’s editor-in-chief, Julian Jordon, pictued below, wa...

17th Jun 2019 12:19 pm

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News » Posthumous collection by Leanne Bridgewater will aid animal protest campaigns

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A posthumous collection of poetry and art by innovative poet, artist and animal rights campaigner Leanne Bridgewater, who died earlier this year at th...

17th Jun 2019 11:28 am

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The Great Fogginzo's Wider Web » My kind of poetry: Char March

by John Foggin

This will be the third, and for a time, the last of my northwords poetry posts. It comes with a kind of synergy or symmetry, in that while last week’s...

16th Jun 2019 9:46 pm

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Events » Keeper of Whitman's flame: US poet George Wallace returns to north-west

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American performance poet George Wallace is returning for a four-venue tour of the north-west, with appearances in Bolton, Liverpool, Manchester and C...

13th Jun 2019 4:42 pm

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Events » Stuart Buck is guest poet at Write Out Loud Sale at the Waterside tonight

Write Out Loud regular Stuart Buck is the guest poet at Sale Write Out Loud at the Waterside arts centre, Sale, on Tuesday 18 June. Entry is £3 to thi...

18th Jun 2019 8:38 am

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American Life in Poetry » 'Decide whose cry it is tonight, which girl to lift, to whisper or hum, which lullaby'

by Ted Kooser, US poet laureate

Here’s a fine poem about a loving, attentive father, by Elise Hempel, who lives in Illinois. Notice how deftly she’s placed her rhymes so that we scar...

13th Jun 2019 10:35 pm

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Review » Landings: Richard Williams, Dempsey & Windle

by Greg Freeman

It takes a brave poet to open a collection with two poems that both mention stationery. After all, it’s not at first glance the most poetic of subject...

17th Jun 2019 10:48 am

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