Write Out Loud looks back … at the early days of lockdown. How did poets cope?
As part of our 20-year anniversary celebrations, Write Out Loud will be looking back at significant moments for us and the wider poetry world over the last two decades. They don’t come much more significant than Covid and lockdown. When lockdown was announced five years ago we had to move quickly and clear all the live gig listings from our home page. Our technical wizard Paul Emberson did all that – and rejigged the home page...
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Bloodaxe … what an arresting name for a poetry publisher. I may have first come across Neil Astley’s name when my wife gave me the second anthology in...
12th Apr 2025 10:17 am
In October last year a unique creative venture involving Marsden-born poet laureate Simon Armitage, his LYR band and Marsden Mechanics was launched. T...
10th Mar 2025 4:17 pm
The Write Out Loud team has perhaps been more focused on our 20th anniversary and fundraising poetry competition than the recent World Poetry Day. Mea...
12th Apr 2025 8:52 am
Write Out Loud regulars who have delighted in the entertaining and crafted poems of RA (Andy) Porter that have been posted here will be pleased to hea...
14th Apr 2025 11:44 am
Fiona Larkin has won this year’s £5,000 National Poetry Competition with ‘Absence has a Grammar’, which was described by judges Romalyn Ante, John McA...
12th Apr 2025 12:00 am
This first full-length collection by Cardiff-based poet Emily Cotterill follows on from her debut poetry pamphlet The Day of the Flying Ants published...
13th Mar 2025 12:00 am
Maggie Harris was born in Guyana and now lives in Broadstairs, Kent. She has won the Guyana Prize for Literature, was regional winner of the Commonwea...
27th Mar 2025 11:05 pm
This collection of one hundred short poems is inspired by the life of Carmelite nun Thérèse of Lisieux, who died in 1897 aged just 24. In her elegant ...
11th Apr 2025 10:14 pm
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