Veteran punk poet John Cooper Clarke explained how he’d been a fan of BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs for 60 years when he appeared on the radio sho...

The 31 July deadline is looming for this year's Foyle Young Poets of the Year award for poets aged 11-17, with this year’s judges Jackie Kay and Raymo...

Karen Swaley is the featured poet at Write Out Loud Woking on Thursday 25 July. Sign up from 7.30pm for this open mic poetry event at the Lightbox art...

I’m constantly reminded that I know a lot less about poetry (and everything else, too) than I’d like. At the same time, I’m wary of the business of ke...

Helen Mort will be judging this year’s £1,000 Winchester poetry prize. The deadline is 31 July. More details

A project aimed at creating a poetry map of England and Wales has seen almost 2,000 poems posted in its first month. The four-month Places of Poetry p...

This column has often emphasised the importance of poetry that notices what's right under our noses, and this poem by David Mason, the former poet lau...

Cherry Doyle, who recently completed a BA in creative writing with the Open University, is one of the co-ordinators of Blakenhall Writers’ Group based...