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There will be a reading of a seasonal poem commissioned by the Poetry Society when the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree is illuminated on 7 December. S...
3rd Dec 2023 7:51 am
The official biographer of WB Yeats, Roy Foster, will be delivering the inaugural Bedford Park Lecture on the Nobel prizewinner at St Michael and All ...
16th Nov 2023 7:53 pm
Carol Ann Duffy has written a sonnet to honour England’s Lionesses and pioneering women fooballers - and a game she has “loved from childhood”. The UK...
30th Nov 2023 7:59 am
Poet Michael Rosen, who spent 48 days in intensive care in 2020 after contracting Coronavirus early on during the pandemic, has been spurred to write ...
25th Nov 2023 10:26 am
Jane Burn has won the Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year award for a portfolio of poems titled A Thousand Miles From The Sea. The pamphlet o...
25th Nov 2023 10:29 am
A book of interviews which should prove very useful to poets aiming to improve their skills, and is already on the reading lists of several universiti...
14th Nov 2023 12:00 am
Write Out Loud Woking relocated to a new live venue at the end of November. The Fiery Bird community arts and live music venue has opened up in a new ...
30th Nov 2023 10:51 pm
Malika Booker, who won this year’s Forward prize for best single published poem for the second time, will be judging the £600 Teignmouth poetry festiv...
1st Nov 2023 7:25 am
Tom Sleigh and Mona Arshi will be judging this year's £2,000 Troubadour poetry prize. The deadline is 10 December. More details
30th Nov 2023 7:42 am
Rachel Carney grew up in Sheffield and now lives in Cardiff where she teaches creative writing. For several years she worked in museums and is complet...
10th Nov 2023 8:59 am
Nigel Planer is perhaps best known as Neil the hippy in the anarchic 1980s youth comedy The Young Ones. But as well as being an established actor with...
13th Nov 2023 8:59 am
This full collection - and with no pun relating to the title intended – feels like a breath of fresh air. ‘Remembering Snow’ is lyrical and profound i...
2nd Dec 2023 12:00 am
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