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National Poetry Centre coming to Leeds gets £5m levelling-up boost

The National Poetry Centre planned for Leeds, which was announced by Simon Armitage as one of his ambitions as poet laureate, has received a £5 million funding boost from the government’s Department for Levelling Up. The National Poetry Centre will be located on the edge of Leeds University’s campus in Trinity St David’s Church – which is also a former nightclub  – on Woodhouse Lane. It is planned...

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Liz Berry wins £30,000 Writers prize for novel in verse

Liz Berry has won the £30,000 Writers’ prize, formerly known as the Rathbones Folio prize, for her collection The Home Child, a novel in verse inspired by the poet’s great-aunt, who at the age of 12 was forced to move from the Black Country to Canada as part of a child migrant scheme.

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Out of Gaza: new anthology includes poems by two Palestinian poets killed by bombings

A new anthology about Gaza which includes poems by two poets who have been killed during intensive Israeli attacks on the Palestinian enclave - in response to atrocities committed by the Palestinian g...

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National Poetry Centre coming to Leeds gets £5m levelling-up boost from government

The National Poetry Centre planned for Leeds, which was announced by Simon Armitage as one of his ambitions as poet laureate, has received a £5 million funding boost from the government’s Department f...

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Best-selling artist Taylor Swift 'related to reclusive Emily Dickinson'

The hugely successful US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is related to the renowned 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson, a genealogy company has revealed.  The link, reported in the Guardian, i...

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What a performance! Robert Garnham looks back at ‘faffing around’ and ‘flopping at slams’

Comedy performance poet Robert Garnham has published a collection of essays, covering topics ranging from advice on “how not to do the Edinburgh Fringe”, fishing for poetic material off the coast of D...

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Two years on: tireless poet of war in Ukraine issues new collection to mark grim anniversary

A poet who has regularly and untiringly posted poems about the war in Ukraine on Write Out Loud since Russia’s invasion has produced a new selection of his work to mark the second anniversary of Vladi...

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