There was poetry taking place all over the world today, at demonstrations involving people  – and young people in particular - striking today (Friday ...

Poets Andy Brown, Raine Geoghegan, Alan Morrison, Mandy Pannett, James Simpson, and Barry Smith will be taking part with musicians and folk singers in...

Tom McColl is the featured poet at Write Out Loud Woking at the Lightbox gallery in Woking on Thursday 26 September. Sign up from 7.30pm for the open-...

1992. Only a few weeks after his twenty-first birthday, our son David died in a fall from the top floor of a high-rise block of flats behind the Merri...

Devon-based poet and archivist Anna Kisby has won the 2019 Marsden the Poetry Village competiton with her poem, ‘Holy Cow’. Competition judge and reno...

An exhibition celebrating Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the American Beat poet, publisher, painter and activist who turned 100 earlier this year, is being st...

A poet and old Etonian has hit out at attitudes among politicians who attended his alma mater. Writing in the Guardian, Musa Okwonga said: “Eton is pr...

Although this poem by Patrick Phillips, from American Poetry Review, is dedicated to a person we don't know, 'For Paul' conveys feelings we've all exp...