'As if the song would come again' by Mikhail Smith is Poem of the Week
The new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘As if the song would come again’ by Mikhail Smith, a poem about loss and regret. In his responses to our questions, he explains the poem a little more: “The inspiration for this was the death of a family member … The poem is saying goodbye with the excuse that I was too weak and slow to help.” On his profile page he tells of his Russian-born father arriving in Liverpool, and of a cr...
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Leading performance poet Tony Walsh affirmed the indomitable spirit of the city of Manchester at a vigil on Tuesday in memory of the victims of Monday...
28th May 2017 8:14 am
Write Out Loud’s Milestones poetry competition has reached another marker post along the way - there is just a month now until the 21 June deadline fo...
28th May 2017 8:14 am
Sinéad Morrissey will be judging the £2,000 Mslexia women’s poetry competition, and Amy Wack, poetry editor of publishers Seren, will be judging Mslex...
28th May 2017 8:14 am
Jacqueline Saphra launched her new collection of poems, All My Mad Mothers - described as an “unreliable memoir” - on Wednesday night in London. In th...
28th May 2017 8:14 am
Sarah Howe will be judging the £1,000 Winchester poetry prize. The deadline is 31 July. More details
28th May 2017 8:14 am
Kathy Miles will be judging the £500 Welsh poetry competition. The deadline is 18 June. More details
28th May 2017 8:13 am
A leading performance poet took immediate action after spotting a group of government ministers at his local railway station. Matt Abbott filmed himse...
28th May 2017 8:13 am
The University of Minnesota Press has published a wonderful new collection of bee poems, If Bees Are Few, which may in some small way help the bees an...
28th May 2017 8:13 am
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