John Baylis Post's 'Track' wins Write Out Loud's Milestones competition
The £500 Milestones competition run by Write Out Loud on behalf of the Milestone Society has been won by John Baylis Post with his poem ‘Track’. The winning poem was described thus by the competition judge, famed Liverpool poet Brian Patten: “I was interested that the writer of this poem was instinctively drawn to the Romans. The Latin mille passus means - of course - one thousand paces. The endless foot-slog by weary Roman so...
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Milestones poetry competition winner John Baylis Post’s poems have been published in Ireland, England, France, and Italy, and he was judged Canterbury...
23rd Aug 2017 4:26 pm
Helen Mort will be judging Oxford Brookes University’s £1,000 poetry competition, which also has an English as an Additional Language category. The de...
23rd Aug 2017 2:48 pm
Steve Pottinger, pictured left, has been performing poetry - with Emma Purshouse and Dave Pitt - at Edinburgh's Free Fringe for the first time. As a n...
23rd Aug 2017 2:48 pm
The new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘A Tale of Two Sandals’ by Paul Waring, a retired clinical psychologist who, his profile tells us, was once...
23rd Aug 2017 2:47 pm
The poet and arts commentator Christopher James Heyworth, known to many of his poetry friends as Christo James, has died suddenly in hospital aged 71....
23rd Aug 2017 2:47 pm
Poetry publishers Templar are presenting a day-long festival at Keats House, Hampstead in London on 27 August, including readings and workshops. Poets...
23rd Aug 2017 2:47 pm
Just as I prefer to read good travel writing more than I like to travel, I look to poems to offer me experiences I'm quite likely never to have. Here'...
23rd Aug 2017 2:46 pm
This pamphlet by Yvonne Reddick was the winner of the 2016 Mslexia poetry pamphlet competition. Born in Glasgow, Reddick won a Northern Writers’ award...
23rd Aug 2017 2:46 pm
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