Michael Rosen's article in the Guardian today describes the English curriculum as disastrous for poetry in schools, doing little to encourage the "juice and emotion" of how we feel when we read poetry.

He describes how poetry becomes servant to the testing and exam system, rather than promoting its p...

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A celebration of the first 25 years of Apples & Snakes with some of the leading lights of the last quarter century, and some of the best of the next 25 years. The line-up covers poetry, storytelling...

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Launch with readings of Two Marriages by Glyn Hughes, SATURDAY DECEMBER 8TH 2007 2.00 - 4.00 pm at Artsmill, Linden Mill, Linden Rd., Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire HX7 7DN. 01422 843413
Two books chos...

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Good friends of WOL Martin and Les have deservedly won the Manchester Evening News "Best New Play" award for their play "And did those feet..." which also won widespread critical acclaim. Well done ch...

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Last month's poem of the month writer, Morag Reid, has chosen this month's poem. Morag says,"I'm an urban poet with an affinity for wild, natural places when I can get to them and free my mind & s...

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