BSL poets shortlisted among contenders for Forward prizes
Raymond Antrobus and Zoë McWhinney have been shortlisted in the performance poem category for the 2025 Forward prizes, in the first year the prize has been open to poems performed in British Sign Language.
Juana Adcock (I Sugar the Bones), Leo Boix (Southernmost: Sonnets), Niall Campbell (The Island in the Sound), Vidyan Ravinthiran (Avidya), and Karen Sodie (Wellwater) are the five shortlisted...
16th August 2025
Poet Alice Oswald arrested at Palestine Action protest
The award-winning poet Alice Oswald, a former Oxford professor of poetry, was among more than 500 people arrested during the latest protest in London on Saturday over the proscribing of the group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.
All but 10 of the arrests were under Section 13 of the ...
10th August 2025
