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Write Out Loud's Poetry Jam celebrates its 10th anniversary at Marsden jazz festival

by News desk

Write Out Loud’s annual open-mic Poetry Jam at Marsden jazz festival will be celebrating its 10th anniversary at the festival next month, at a new venue. This year, on Sunday morning 13 October poets will be gathering in the marquee outside Hanson’s Musical Instruments in Warehouse Hill Road at the usual time of 11am for two hours or so of poetry – and this year one or two special guests are promised. Over the last decade the ...

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Competitions » Anna Kisby's 'Holy Cow' wins Marsden the Poetry Village competition

Devon-based poet and archivist Anna Kisby has won the 2019 Marsden the Poetry Village competiton with her poem, ‘Holy Cow’. Competition judge and reno...

29th Aug 2019 11:15 am

Events » Exhibition celebrating Lawrence Ferlinghetti at National Poetry Library

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An exhibition celebrating Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the American Beat poet, publisher, painter and activist who turned 100 earlier this year, is being st...

16th Sep 2019 11:27 am

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News » Poet Musa Okwonga hits out at fellow old Etonians Cameron and Johnson

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A poet and old Etonian has hit out at attitudes among politicians who attended his alma mater. Writing in the Guardian, Musa Okwonga said: “Eton is pr...

19th Sep 2019 12:00 am

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The Great Fogginzo's Wider Web » A loss you can't imagine: young men and suicide

by John Foggin

1992. Only a few weeks after his twenty-first birthday, our son David died in a fall from the top floor of a high-rise block of flats behind the Merri...

15th Sep 2019 10:36 am

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Reputations » The joy of poetry: first love of sex manual's author

by Greg Freeman

I’d bought my second-hand copy of Penguin’s Poetry of the Forties anthology several years before, probably in Hay-on-Wye, but had never got round to p...

13th Sep 2019 11:21 pm

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Competitions » Poetry Translation Centre launches Sarah Maguire prize

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The Poetry Translation Centre has launched the Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation to recognise and encourage quality translation of poetry ...

19th Sep 2019 11:04 pm

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American Life in Poetry » 'Things always dwindling to just the two of us, a crumpled cigarette, a distant car'

by Ted Kooser, US poet laureate

Although this poem by Patrick Phillips, from American Poetry Review, is dedicated to a person we don't know, 'For Paul' conveys feelings we've all exp...

17th Sep 2019 12:24 pm

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Review » A Map Towards Fluency: Lisa Kelly, Carcanet

by Richard Skinner

Walter Benjamin said that “Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where ...

19th Sep 2019 1:10 am

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