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Double triumph! TS Eliot winner Joelle Taylor is Saboteurs best spoken word performer

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Joelle Taylor has won this year’s Saboteur award for best spoken word performer, it was announced at the awards ceremony in Birmingham on Saturday night. It is a remarkable stage and page achievement for Taylor, who earlier this year won the TS Eliot prize for poetry.

Manchester’s Verbose won the people’s vote for best spoken word night, while Cathy Carson took the best spoken word show award for ‘Becoming marvellous’. Othe...

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1st May 2022 9:15 am

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4th May 2022 6:51 pm

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News » Bestselling poet Rupi Kaur to tour UK later this year

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12th May 2022 8:28 am

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Competitions » Inua Ellams to judge £5,000 Bridport poetry prize

Inua Ellams will be judging the £5,000 Bridport poetry prize. The deadline is 31 May. More details

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7th May 2022 12:00 am

Competitions » Jo Bell to judge £1,000 Winchester poetry prize

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30th Apr 2022 9:07 am

Competitions » Deadline nears for Wirral poetry competition

The deadline is 22 May for the Wirral poetry festival annual competition. First prize is £250. More details

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5th May 2022 9:05 pm

American Life in Poetry » 'Crossing the same path two moon and roman nose once wandered'

In 'Leaving Bents Fort' Lance Henson wrestles deeply with the meaning of being a Cheyenne in America — a meaning that is as complex historically as it...

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3rd May 2022 8:35 pm

by Kwame Dawes

Review » Elgar Country: Peter Sutton, Black Pear Press

Poet, playwright and translator Peter Sutton is a frequent reader at poetry events in the West Midlands and beyond. His alliterative verse translation...

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28th Apr 2022 2:22 pm

by Neil Leadbeater

Review » They Race Me In The Streets: Shaun Fallows, Lulu

The title poem of Shaun Fallows’s second collection is uplifting and full of love. It tells how Fallows, a wheelchair user who has cerebral palsy, is ...

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28th Apr 2022 2:20 pm

by Greg Freeman

Review » There: Clare Morris and Nigel Bird, TQ

The poet and writer Clare Morris works in collaboration with the artist Nigel Bird in this engaging and interesting pamphlet. Their works not only int...

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30th Apr 2022 9:10 am

by Carla Scarano D'Antonio

Review » The Country With No Playgrounds: Elena Croitoru, Live Canon

Prize-winning poet Elena Croitoru is a British-Romanian writer based in Kent. She holds an MSt (Master of Studies) in creative writing from the Univer...

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2nd May 2022 8:18 pm

by Neil Leadbeater

Review » What Meets the Eye? The Deaf Perspective: eds. Lisa Kelly, Sophie Stone, Arachne Press

This first week of May has been Deaf Awareness Week and this past year has seen Deafness and the Deaf community attract a lot of positive media attent...

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7th May 2022 9:08 am

by Kathy Owston

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