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Your chance to take the stage: Write Out Loud's poetry jam at Marsden jazz festival!

Write Out Loud returns to Marsden in West Yorkshire for its popular annual open mic poetry jam at the jazz festival on 13 October 11am-1pm. This year we are delighted to have secured a fantastic new venue at Marsden Socialist Club, which boasts a licensed bar, ample seating and to top it all a stage. Last year, poets gathered to remember Paul Blackburn, a very dear friend and regular supporter of this event, and a key member o...

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A poetry festival that includes headline names but also welcomes grassroots poets with open arms returns to the north-west later this month. Pam Ayres...

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You could be forgiven for mistaking the Waddington Street Centre in Durham for just another terrace house at first glance, were it not for the Poetry ...

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A poetry reading on Thursday 3 October – National Poetry Day – will celebrate the return of the Northern Poetry Library to its original home at the ma...

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Important news! You can now make direct donations to Write Out Loud, so more of your contribution is retained by our community interest company. Thank...

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The collected poetry of JRR Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, is to be published in a three-volume edition by Harper Collins. T...

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A poetry group that was established in 1968 has just published its 40th annual anthology of poetry by members of the group. Long-standing member Adria...

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Here’s the second – or is it the third? – in our occasional series on poetic forms, in which we invite you to look at and maybe have a go yourself. Th...

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The 23 September deadline is nearing for entries to the £2,000 Troubadour international poetry prize, run by Coffee-House Poetry. The judges are Jane ...

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The £1,000 Keats-Shelley prizes for essays and poems have opened for entries. The theme for this year’s prizes is ‘Exile’, to mark the bicentenary of ...

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In his latest collection, the title of which is a partial echo of Yeats’ ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ and Richard Murphy’s ‘Sailing to an Island’, Mervyn Li...

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Katrina Naomi grew up close to the sea in Margate and now lives in Cornwall, where she combines her love of writing with sea swimming and a passion fo...

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This collection of snapshots from Neil Leadbeater is as clean-cut as the jewels that inspire ‘Diversion’, the fourth of its five sections. His percept...

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