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The Poem of the Week is 'Texas Tornadoes and the Power of Prayer' by Randy Horton

Our Poem of the Week this time round is 'Texas Tornadoes and the Power of Prayer' by Randy Horton, a tale of small town apocalypse that beguiles us with its use of language and narrative. Randy foregoes traditional poetic form and delivers a short, sharp piece of foreboding dark comedy, needing only a few lines to transport us to the world he has created, where the 'sky is darker than Brother Jimmy’s sermon last Sunday'. Below...

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Competitions » Patience Agbabi to judge Marsden the Poetry Village competition on 'Together' theme

by News desk

Patience Agbabi will be judging an international poetry competition run by Marsden the Poetry Village for poems submitted on the theme of “Together”, ...

7th Mar 2019 10:03 am

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News » Luke Wright named in three categories in Saboteur awards shortlists

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Leading spoken word performer Luke Wright has made the Saboteur awards shortlists in three categories, it has been announced after the first round of ...

16th Apr 2019 10:43 am

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Events » Write Out Loud at Bolton Socialist Club tonight

There’s open mic poetry at Bolton Socialist Club on Sunday 21 April with Bolton Write Out Loud. Your hosts are Jeffarama! and Gordon Zola. Entry is £1...

21st Apr 2019 10:09 am

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The Great Fogginzo's Wider Web » Blank notebook pages and first-line nerves

by John Foggin

A sort of mea culpa to start with on this ridiculously lovely Easter Sunday. I’m pretty sure I promised you a guest poet today, and I have her poems a...

21st Apr 2019 12:09 pm

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Events » Robert Garnham and Annum Salman are Write Out Loud guest poets at Woking literary festival

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Guest poets Robert Garnham and Annum Salman will be performing along with a great number of open-mic poets over five hours at Poetry Day on Saturday 2...

20th Apr 2019 8:55 am

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American Life in Poetry » 'A racquet whisked through the air like a wand'

by Ted Kooser, US poet laureate

There's nothing that can't be a good subject for a poem. The hard part is to capture something in such a way that it becomes engaging and meaningful. ...

17th Apr 2019 7:47 am

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Publication news » Chris Armstrong's poems about love, loss and Wales

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This week sees the publication of Mostly Welsh, a collection of poems by Write Out Loud regular Chris Armstrong. The collection blends the historic wi...

19th Apr 2019 9:17 pm

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Review » Amoretti: Paul AW Sutherland, Dempsey & Windle

by Terence Jones

It was the title that drew me: Amoretti, the name of a sequence of sonnets written by Edmund Spenser to the woman who would become his second wife. It...

17th Apr 2019 7:47 am

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