In approximately two months time we shall commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the end of the First World War, when the guns fell silent after four ye...

As some of you may know, I run a monthly open mic poetry night in Warwickshire.  For many of us, the organisation of such an event is a labour of love...

New arts for health programmes and initiatives are taking place at The University of Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery with the aim of making art and...

The concept of cracks may seem a strange subject for contemplation, but these overlooked creatures of absence are often the constructive features that...

Inua Ellams' R.A.P. Party    ***** (Five Stars)

Totally Thames Festival, London. Onboard the Dixie Queen. 12th September 2018

Arguably the jewel...

One of the UK’s most incisive performance poets is on a whistle-stop tour of London in October to promote her second collection ‘Fault Lines’

‘Faul...

The poetry associated with or originated from the many forms of spirituality is vast indeed, stretching back into the centuries of antiquity and embra...

Marianne Burton trained as a lawyer and worked in the City. Her first book, She Inserts the Key was nominated for the Forward prize for best first col...