A collection by leading spoken word poet Louise Fazackerley that includes the experience of working with groomed girls in the care system, and is in p...

Forget about the election – once you’ve cast your vote, of course – it’s Write Out Loud Wigan in the Bailiff Bar of the Old Courts arts centre on Thur...

Calling all poetry organisers … can you please ensure that your gig listings are correct over the Christmas and New Year holiday period? If you’re tak...

In the last post I was writing about poets who inspired me, who gave me the aspiration to write. Poets who taught me what I needed to be writing about...

Fellow poets have delivered many tributes on social media to the innovative poet and online editor Reuben Woolley, who has died after a long illness a...

Here's a poem about something that each of us receives, though only once. If you didn't get yours written into a poem, you've got it put away somewher...

It is the county of Woodbine Willie, Basil d’Oliveira, apples, pears and plums, a certain kind of sauce, floods, Elgar, and steam trains. Some poets a...

Poet, writer and educator Jean Atkin has worked on a variety of residencies in both England and Scotland and provides workshops and readings to school...