It's never too late! Graham Sherwood makes live poetry debut
A momentous occasion has taken place in the poetry realm, an event rarer than hen’s teeth. Write Out Loud ‘old timer’ Graham Sherwood took to the stage for the very first time at Waterstones in Milton Keynes, as part of the 2025 MK Lit Fest celebrations.
Graham won the 2024 MK Lit Fest poetry competition with his entry MK Fortean but was unable to present it last year due to being out of the c...
28th April 2025
Campaign to save Wordsworth home as museum after Rydal Mount goes up for sale
A campaign has been launched to preserve William Wordsworth’s family home at Rydal Mount in the Lake District, as a site of literary heritage. The poet lived there from 1813 to his death in 1850. It is now up for sale, for offers at over £2.5m.
Rydal Mount is described by the property website Rig...
27th April 2025
Fiona Larkin wins National Poetry Competition
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 McAuliffe and Stephen Sexton as “very impressive, ing...
12th April 2025
