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Poet, actor, musician, writer, campaigner, TV presenter Benjamin Zephaniah has died after a short illness. A post on his Instagram account reads: "Pro...
8th Dec 2023 11:32 pm
My memories of Benjamin Zephaniah are of him sharing a stage with Tony Benn at the Ledbury poetry festival in 2013, and later at the same festival, at...
8th Dec 2023 12:33 am
This year’s Trafalgar Square Christmas tree poem, ‘T is for Tree’ by Isabel Galleymore, was unveiled on Thursday evening. It draws a parallel between ...
8th Dec 2023 12:00 am
In July 2020, the poet, rapper, playwright and recording artist Kae Tempest came out as non-binary, announcing that they would publish and perform und...
8th Dec 2023 5:19 pm
A book of interviews which should prove very useful to poets aiming to improve their skills, and is already on the reading lists of several universiti...
14th Nov 2023 12:00 am
The official biographer of WB Yeats, Roy Foster, will be delivering the inaugural Bedford Park Lecture on the Nobel prizewinner at St Michael and All ...
16th Nov 2023 7:53 pm
Poet Michael Rosen, who spent 48 days in intensive care in 2020 after contracting Coronavirus early on during the pandemic, has been spurred to write ...
10th Dec 2023 12:12 am
Malika Booker, who won this year’s Forward prize for best single published poem for the second time, will be judging the £600 Teignmouth poetry festiv...
1st Nov 2023 7:25 am
Zaffar Kunial will be judging The Rialto’s £1,000 Nature and Place poetry competition. The Rialto magazine is working in association with the RSPB, Bi...
10th Dec 2023 12:14 am
Rachel Carney grew up in Sheffield and now lives in Cardiff where she teaches creative writing. For several years she worked in museums and is complet...
10th Nov 2023 8:59 am
Nigel Planer is perhaps best known as Neil the hippy in the anarchic 1980s youth comedy The Young Ones. But as well as being an established actor with...
13th Nov 2023 8:59 am
This full collection - and with no pun relating to the title intended – feels like a breath of fresh air. ‘Remembering Snow’ is lyrical and profound i...
2nd Dec 2023 12:00 am
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