Arts Council England (ACE) has announced that it is making £160 million of emergency funding available during the coronavirus crisis to “those organis...

As the momentum of online events increases, with virtual open-mic nights springing up – see our review of one - a new, two-week online literature fest...

First, there was a question about swear words. Robert Garnham, Devon-based performance poet and MC of the Facebook group Big Poetry Goes Viral, direct...

Poet and writer Andy N last week took part as a featured guest with his partner Amanda Steel in a virtual poetry open-mic night at Sale Write Out Loud...

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

An Evening with Carol Duffy at the Manchester literature festival was billed as the launch of the poet laureate’s first collected poems, but there was...

Karen Head lives in Georgia, and possums seem to live everywhere. You may drive past a dead one on a roadside somewhere today. Here's a poem in which ...

This collection contains a number of poems about what you might call unfashionable subjects – Midlands industrialism, a flight of locks through Wolver...