Thank-you to our bloggers as Write Out Loud poetry calendar counts down to Christmas
It's that time again! Last year we launched our first ever Write Out Loud poetry calendar with the promise of trying to inject a bit of fun, thought and reflection into the final dark and gloomy days of the year. We felt, like many, that in this troubled world we need poetry more than ever. And a year on, nothing has really changed and poetry continues to play as important a role as ever. Our regular bloggers have been sharing...
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The American poet, teacher, and human rights advocate Carolyn Forché was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters at a degree ceremony at Newcastle Universi...
5th Dec 2025 12:00 am
The co-founder of Write Out Loud, Dave Morgan, was given a fond farewell on Sunday as he stepped down from the helm of Write Out Loud’s open-mic night...
9th Dec 2025 10:17 pm
Milton Keynes Lit Fest is mapping the city in a multimedia project to capture people’s experiences in relation and response to specific places – house...
12th Dec 2025 9:00 am
For those of you already drawing up your Christmas present lists ... do you know someone who loves poetry? If you do, why not send them a copy of our ...
23rd Nov 2025 9:05 am
Tom Paulin has won the PEN Heaney Prize 2025 for Namanlagh, his first collection in over a decade. The £5,000 award was announced at a ceremony in the...
4th Dec 2025 12:00 am
Two recent recipients of the King’s Gold Medal for Poetry – Selima Hill (2022), and George Szirtes (2024), pictured – have finally been presented with...
29th Nov 2025 9:18 am
I was a little unsure about joining Mole Valley Poets back in 2003. They were probably all much better than me. I might not be good enough. I’d have t...
2nd Dec 2025 10:46 am
Poems about bladderwrack, kelp, oysters, stones and coal dust found on a beach, and a skip full of seaweed have been published after a creative worksh...
1st Dec 2025 2:03 pm
Matthew Paul has had poems published in a number of leading magazines, and already has one excellent collection, The Evening Entertainment, to his nam...
15th Nov 2025 8:48 am
Salford spoken word artist Kieren King is a leading slam performer who once said in an interview that he was inspired by the Bard of Salford, John Coo...
17th Nov 2025 5:11 pm
When poet and publisher Tim Fellows looked out of his bedroom window as a boy, he saw the local colliery in his former mining area of north Derbyshire...
28th Nov 2025 10:23 am
Ivan V Lalić (1931-1996) was born in Belgrade, the Yugoslav and Serbian capital. The summers of his childhood were spent in western Serbia, an idyll t...
2nd Dec 2025 12:00 am
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