Profits from a recently launched poetry anthology about the NHS, These Are The Hands, have already raised more than £900 for the NHS Charities Togethe...

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...

Susannah Hart has won this year’s Poetry Society’s £5,000 National Poetry Competition with her poem ‘Reading the Safeguarding and Child Protection Pol...

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...

Voting has opened in the first stage of the annual Saboteur awards, run by Sabotage Reviews, with nominations invited for such categories as best spok...

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...

Andrew McMillan will be judging the £1,000 Winchester poetry prize. The deadline is 31 July. More details

Born in Derry, Northern Ireland, Eoghan Walls has lived and taught in Germany, Rwanda and England, where he now lectures in creative writing at Lancas...

Jane Hirshfield, who lives in California, is one of our country's finest poets. I found this beautiful meditation in Poetry of Presence: An Anthology ...

The Poetry Society’s Foyle Young Poets of the Year competition, for poets aged 11-17, is being judged this year by Maura Dooley and Keith Jarrett. The...