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The glory of ghazals, with Winston Plowes and Nabila Jameel

Write Out Loud’s Winston Plowes and British Pakistani poet Nabila Jameel are running a workshop on ghazals – a poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets and a refrain – and English readings of Urdu poetry at Todmorden library this Saturday morning, 1 October, as part of the Calderdale Readers and Writers festival.

Winston is a resident of the Rochdale canal in Calderdale. Among other thing...

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New Poetry Society board seeks to regain arts grant

The Poetry Society’s new board of trustees has issued a statement about the withholding of its Arts Council grant, a “situation of immense concern to the board”.

The grant was withheld during the summer turmoil at the Poetry Society, which resulted in a 5,000-signature petition, an extraordin...

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Literature Wales: whetting Cardiff's literary appetite

A new academic year sees Literature Wales thrust forth into a host of fantastic first-time endeavours. First up is the Literature Lounge, a “pop-up literary emporium” that will see an empty shop in...

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Bob of the Bowery drops in for Welsh visit

Renowned American poet Bob Holman, who founded the legendary Bowery Poetry Club in New York, is headlining at The Absurd Presents … at Clwyd Theatr Cymru in Mold, north Wales on Tuesday night.

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Peace breaks out at the Poetry Society

The turmoil at the Poetry Society is officially over, according to one of the prime movers in the revolt among members that forced out the board of trustees at an extraordinary general meeting earl...

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Spreading the word: independent poetry presses show off wares

Two fairs are displaying the wares of independent poetry presses this Saturday – in Leeds and London. Leeds Independent Presses Poetry Festival (LIPPfest), at The Carriageworks theatre, Leeds on 24...

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Poets for change: celebrating and demonstrating around the world

At least 25 locations in Britain will be holding events on Saturday 24 September to mark 100 Thousand Poets for Change, a global phenomenon in more than 100 countries organised by US poet and edito...

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Twenty-five poets lined up at Leeds one-day festival

Twenty-five poets from all over the UK will be reading at the Leeds Independent Presses Poetry Festival on Saturday 24 September at the Carriageworks in the centre of Leeds. The 25 are : Paul Adria...

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Gig-guide upload problem update

Around 80% of the hundreds of events on our famous gig guide are listed by event organisers themselves. Unfortunately, for those using certain versions of Internet Explorer, a bug in the system has...

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Remembering Edward Thomas

Celebrating Edward Thomas, on Thursday 22 September at the South Bank’s Purcell Room in London at 7.45pm is hosted by Matthew Hollis, author of Now All Roads Lead to France, a book about the last y...

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Louise Fazackerley wins Commonword / Write Out Loud slam at Wigan

Louise Fazackerley has triumphed at the Wigan/ Write Out Loud heat  in the Superheroes of Slam competition organised by Commonword. Louise who has previously been a runner-up, was the winner on an ...

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Pennine poet Char March at Ilkley Literature Festival

Pennine poet and playwright Char March, who has just published her fourth collection, A Thousand Natural Shocks, with Indigo Dreams, will be performing at Ilkley Literature Festival on Sunday 9 Oct...

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Shortlist for top poetry translation prize

Works of poetry from Holland, Sweden, Turkey, France, and Romania are on the shortlist for the Corneliu M Popescu prize for poetry in translation. The list is:   

Heavenly Life, Ramsey Nasr (Ba...

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Poetry in the square at St Ives festival

St Ives festival kicks off on 10 September and goes on until 24 September, with open mic poetry and music in Norway Square, Back Road West, every day during the festival in Cornwall.  It's hosted b...

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Birmingham's poet laureate on the riots

Birmingham’s poet laureate, Roy McFarlane, is the guest  at PureandGoodandRight’s open mic event at the Sozzled Sausage in Leamington Spa on 12 September. One of Roy’s most recent poems, Saving Our...

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Betjeman slam at Wantage festival

A poetry slam is planned as one of the attractions at a festival celebrating Sir John Betjeman’s long associations with the Oxfordshire town of Wantage from 11-17 September. There are also poetry w...

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The future of poetry magazine publishing: PN Review debate

A discussion about poetry magazine publishing now and in the future will be one of the features of an evening in Manchester celebrating the 200th issue of leading UK poetry magazine PN Review. The ...

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Spam, spam, not-so-wonderful spam

Many of you were surprised and alarmed last week to receive a message from a Senegalese spammer via Write Out Loud. The spammer had created two new profiles within our set-up before getting to work...

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