It was sixty years ago this year ... university plans festival event to honour poetry landmark
An historic poetry landmark in Newcastle that hasn’t been open to the public for a long time but still captures literary imaginations reaches its 60th anniversary this year. Morden Tower, built around 1290 as part of the city’s medieval walls by Edward I, will be celebrated at a Newcastle poetry festival event next month. In the 1960s the tower, lacking electricity, sanitation, and indeed chairs,...
23rd April 2024
Celebrating Byron bicentenary - and his Italian connections
2024 marks the 200th anniversary of the death of the poet Lord Byron (22 January 1788-19 April 1824), who was a genuine European in his tastes and enthusiasms. In Italy, where he spent six years, he is celebrated among the national poets, and in Greece, where he died during the war of independence, ...
23rd April 2024
From sleepy Shropshire to London's Oxford Street ... Poetry Pharmacy branches out
The unique Poetry Pharmacy, which has been dispensing poetry prescriptions as well as books and coffee from its home in the sleepy Shropshire town of Bishop's Castle for several years, is to open a br...
12th April 2024
In praise of Milton Keynes: Graham Sherwood wins poetry competition in home city
Congratulations to Write Out Loud’s meeter and greeter and moderator Graham Sherwood, who has won first prize in a poetry competition in his home city of Milton Keynes!
Graham won with his poem ‘MK...
7th April 2024
Shetland poet wins £140,000 US literary prize
Shetland poet Jen Hadfield has been awarded around £140,000 as one of eight winners of the US Windham-Campbell prize, based at Yale University.
Writers do not apply for the prize, which celebrates ...
3rd April 2024
