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POETRY IS IMPORTANT IN THESE DIFFICULT TIMES - HELP US TO HELP OTHERS CREATIVELY, IF YOU CAN

by Matt Abbott, Write Out Loud development manager

We hope you managed a well-earned rest over the festive period in spite of all the plans that had to be cancelled. We know things are looking gloomy and the last thing you need is a plea for support from us, but what we are asking is for you to support us in supporting others. Write Out Loud has made a huge difference to people’s lives – through poetry - in the past 18 years. 2020 taught us the value of poetry in difficult tim...

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Poetry Jam, Marsden jazz festival, October 2019 » Jonathan Humble

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News » Amanda Gorman to be youngest poet to perform at presidential inauguration

Amanda Gorman will become the sixth and youngest poet to perform at a presidential inauguration on Wednesday. The 22-year-old from Los Angeles will be...

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19th Jan 2021 5:10 pm

by News desk

News » Singer and DJ Cerys Matthews in album project with 10 poets

Musician and DJ Cerys Matthews is a great champion of poetry. The singer, songwriter and broadcaster, who hosts a weekly music show on BBC Radio 6 Mus...

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18th Jan 2021 12:00 am

by News desk

News » 'All I knew was that I was to go to Abbey Road and bring three poems'

One of the poets involved in the Cerys Matthews poetry and music album project has spoken of his “joyous surprise” at being asked to contribute, and o...

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19th Jan 2021 11:07 am

by News desk

News » Marianne Faithfull to release album of Romantic poetry readings

Legendary 1960s figure Marianne Faithfull has unveiled her latest album project – reading the works of the Romantic Poets, including Keats’ To Autumn,...

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18th Jan 2021 11:38 am

by News desk

News » TS Eliot Prize readings and announcement of winner to be streamed on Sunday 24 January

The £25,000 TS Eliot Prize readings will be combined with the chair of the judges’ announcement of the winner in a streamed event hosted by Ian McMill...

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12th Jan 2021 5:49 pm

by News desk

News » TV programme on Cornwall pays tribute to poet Jack Clemo

A tribute has been paid during a TV series about Cornwall to “one of Cornwall’s most celebrated poets”, Jack Clemo. In a section of Rick Stein’s Corn...

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18th Jan 2021 10:19 am

by Greg Freeman

We'll meet again » Write Out Loud relives some memorable live poetry moments

During the coronavirus shutdown Write Out Loud has been looking back at some wonderful live poetry moments over the last few years … and re-running so...

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14th Jan 2021 10:01 pm

We'll meet again » National Poetry Day, Southbank Centre, London, 2014

The new Forward prize winner, Kei Miller, looked out at the audience, smiled, and apologised for the downbeat nature of his final poem on National Poe...

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14th Jan 2021 9:59 pm

by Greg Freeman

Beyond the Storm anthology » Looking back to the first lockdown ...

Do you still remember the first lockdown? How it felt quite different to this one? Back then we were moving into spring, then summer. There were a who...

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8th Jan 2021 1:24 pm

by Greg Freeman

Young Write Out Loud » Schools to celebrate International Mother Language Day with poetry

Write Out Loud board member Julia Clark, headteacher of Lily Lane primary primary school in Moston, Manchester, and the school’s poet-in-residence Lou...

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17th Jan 2021 11:16 am

by News desk

Publications » Trains, trolleybuses, rag and bone men: Ray Pool publishes online book of archive photographs

Write Out Loud regular Ray Pool is known to many here as a professional musician. But what may be less well known is that before he turned to music, h...

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14th Jan 2021 10:28 pm

by Greg Freeman

Review » A Sense of Tiptoe: Karen Hayes, Holland Park Press

Karen Hayes spent the earlier part of her working life as an actor and musician and later artistic director of the Bristol-based theatre collective Pu...

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18th Jan 2021 2:17 pm

by Neil Leadbeater

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