One area of contemporary poetry that interests me is a blending of familiar categories, especially what’s usually defined as prose and what’s usually ...

Communities across Bolton will help make the town shine when the inaugural Bolton Light Festival begins later this month.  The festival is a new event...

A huge welcome to Write Out Loud’s newest contributor, Kyle McCall Wilson:

Hello, my name is Kyle and I write under the name Munkyle The Poetry Mac...

THE drive over to Marsden from my home in Stockport can be glorious but this year it was a louring, drenching trip ending in a flooded car park and a ...

It was a world first for Winchester Poetry festival - the first time Irish poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa has performed in England, even visited, in fact, a...

Language is of course the point when it comes to a poetry festival, not stars or trends but what writers on the stage are doing with words. In a time ...

Anna Saunders’s Ghosting for Beginners is a rich procession of phantoms and monsters. An undercurrent of anxiety for the material world grounds the co...

The poems in this chapbook by Neil Leadbeater represent a love letter to Lisbon, to Portugal, and to its cork groves in particular. In the capital the...