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The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Pay Attention’ by Kate G

This week’s Poem of the Week is ‘Pay Attention’ by Kate G, an ode to the world’s ultimate givers, the oft overlooked tree. ‘Pay Attention’ is rich with colour and imagery and utilizes an excellent last line to bring home the theme of the piece. It is a confident and insightful piece of writing and well deserving of the title of Poem of the Week. Below, Kate answers our Q&A and reveals a little more about herself and her love o...

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News and Opinion

The Great Fogginzo's Wider Web » Ted Hughes, eco-criticism and the common reader

by John Foggin

“What do I want in a critic of poetry? I am a slow and basic reader: clarity, first of all. Everything else, the enthusiasm, the insight, even little ...

19th Feb 2019 12:09 am

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Tales from the venues » Dim the lights for spoken word: Speakeasy at the Sip Club, Stretford, Manchester

by Patrick Wright

Reading our work in public, whatever the style or genre, can be a daunting experience, even if we have some practice. For the beginner or novice it ca...

20th Feb 2019 9:15 am

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Events » Write Out Loud Woking at the Lightbox on Thursday

Write Out Loud Woking is at the café at the Lightbox gallery and museum in Woking on Thursday 21 February at 7.30pm. Entry is free to this open-mic po...

20th Feb 2019 12:47 pm

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Interview » 'I believe that poetry can help in so many ways with good mental health': the Emergency Poet

by Greg Freeman

The Emergency Poet Deborah Alma – who dispenses poetic remedies from her special ambulance – plans to park her much-travelled vehicle and set up a per...

20th Feb 2019 9:16 am

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Events » New Helen Dunmore collection looks back over 40 years

The family of Helen Dunmore and some of her close friends will be at Waterstones in London’s Piccadilly on Tuesday 26 February for the launch of the l...

20th Feb 2019 11:39 pm

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American Life in Poetry » 'In April I will walk out across the warming grass and right the chair'

by Ted Kooser, US poet laureate

John Stanizzi is a poet living in Connecticut, whose work we've published before. His most recent collection of poems is Chants, from Cervena Barva Pr...

19th Feb 2019 12:00 am

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Review » Anatomy of a Whale: Matt Barnard, Onslaught Press

by Janice Dempsey

Matt Barnard’s Anatomy of a Whale is disarmingly accessible and at times startlingly original. He explores the underside of the ordinary and aspects o...

16th Feb 2019 8:25 pm

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Review » Husbands for Breakfast: Trisha Broomfield, Dempsey & Windle

by Jenny Hockey

Trisha Broomfield was born in Lincolnshire, grew up in Australia and now lives in Surrey. As well as poetry, she’s a writer of short stories and unfi...

19th Feb 2019 8:35 am

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