When Write Out Loud caught up with him – by phone – he had walked 50 miles in four days, and was about to perform in his fourth show. Benjamin Guilfoy...

Raymond Antrobus has become the first poet to win the £30,000 Rathbones Folio prize, with his collection The Perseverance, which also won this year’s ...

It’s make your mind up time for those of you still pondering your entry for the Marsden the Poetry Village competition on the theme of ‘Together’ – th...

I was trying to decide between three possible posts for this Sunday, when my mind was made up for me by two things. On Wednesday I had a great time as...

It was a great night for Derby at the Saboteur awards on Saturday night. Jamie Thrasivoulou, who is the official poet for Derby County FC, with his po...

Alice Oswald, one of the candidates to succeed Simon Armitage as the next Oxford professor of poetry, has talked of wanting to stage some “extreme poe...

I don't suppose there are many of our younger readers who have started to worry about the possibility of memory loss, but I'd guess almost everybody o...

This collection contains lyrical and evocative poems that were written as a response to the death of a young man who drowned in Ireland’s river Shanno...