Manchester poets performing on World Aids Day
Manchester performance poets Rosie Garland, Dominic Berry, Gerry Potter, Steph Pike and Rod Tame will be performing at Manchester City Library, on Saturday 1 December from 2-4pm to mark World Aids Day. The free event is in the Becker room on the first floor, with free refreshments. Map
30th November 2012
John McCullough's Frost Fairs wins Polari first book prize
John McCullough's poetry collection The Frost Fairs has won this year’s Polari first book prize. The Polari prize is for a first book that explores the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender experience and is open to any work of poetry, prose, fiction or non-fiction published in the UK in English...
28th November 2012
Out of this world: new magazine for young writers on launch pad
A new print magazine aimed at promoting the talents of writers and artists aged under 30 is being launched by poet and editor, Charlotte Henson, aided by poet and interviewer Tim Wells. Astronaut i...
28th November 2012
A sharp eye on Manchester: performance poet's pictures
A top performance poet who is the current Superhero of Slam champion also happens to have taken around 80,000 photographs in the last eight years - and on Wednesday 28 November he will be auctionin...
28th November 2012
Deadline nears for Cinnamon's first collection competition
The 30 November deadline is fast approaching for the Cinnamon Press first poetry collection competition. The winning author has his/her poetry collection published with Cinnamon Press and receives ...
25th November 2012
Write Out Loud's poetry workshop: the cento
This month’s Write out Loud poetry workshop exercise comes from Winston Plowes, and concerns the cento, a type of found poem.
“Hello there, Write Out Loud Community: here is a simple idea th...
25th November 2012
Write Out Loud at Middleton on Sunday
Write Out Loud Middleton meets up at the Ring O’Bells, St Leonards Square, Middleton on Sunday, 25 November, at 7pm. Contact: katie.haigh@sky.com. Rod Whitworth is expected as guest poet. Entry is ...
24th November 2012
Putting together a poetry collection: Arvon's Winter Warmer course
There are places available on what Arvon is billing as one of its Winter Warmer courses, in January next year. Caroline Bird and Ian Duhig are tutors on Poetry: Putting together a collection, from ...
24th November 2012
After the floods, a haiku trail at Hebden Bridge is launched tonight
A poetry trail of 13 haiku by John Siddique that has been installed in shops and businesses in Hebden Bridge is being launched tonight, Thursday 22 November. John said: “Reflected Lines is a poetry...
22nd November 2012
Write Out Loud at Marsden tonight
Write Out Loud Marsden will be meeting at Marsden library on Wednesday 21 November for a poetry read-around at which beginners are encouraged. There will be more talk about the successful poet tree...
21st November 2012
Villanelles: ed. Annie Finch, Marie-Elizabeth Mali: Everyman
On a recent edition of Desert Island Discs, castaway Tidjane Thiam (chief executive of Prudential) chose to take Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov with him into his eponymous lonely, hot a...
20th November 2012
Word of Mouth, The Last Refuge, Peckham
It’s funny where life takes you. If three years ago someone had told me I’d be organising my own poetry open mic event I would probably have laughed in their face. Yet there I was, on 29 July 2012 ...
20th November 2012
Bryant, Foster-Brown and Poyser at Write Out Loud Sale tonight
Cathy Bryant, Bindi Foster-Brown and Phil Poyser are the guests at Write Out Loud Sale on Tuesday 20 November at the Waterside arts centre, starting at 7.30pm. Host Rod Tame completes the quartet f...
20th November 2012
Bolton launches its Poems In Shops anthology
Imagine a town centre in which every shop has its own poem on display. Wouldn’t that be fantastic? You’d certainly think it would silence those critics who say poetry is dead. Well it’s just happen...
17th November 2012
An evening with Write Out Loud - and Tony Walsh
Acclaimed performance poet Tony Walsh - aka Longfella - is the guest at An Evening With Write Out Loud at Bolton’s Octagon theatre on Monday 19 November, with compere Julian Jordon, Write Out Loud’...
17th November 2012
Templar sets out its stall at Derwent festival
Templar Poetry’s Derwent festival takes place this weekend, from 16-18 November, at Masson Mills, Matlock Bath. It’s a festival that publishes and launches collections, pamphlets and an anthology, ...
16th November 2012
Stage or page? Two chances to win at Wirral Ode Show contest
Does it work on the page – as well as on the stage? Wirral Ode Show is staging its annual competition on Thursday 15 November, with two parallel contests.
Participating poets are asked to provi...
14th November 2012
Chance to feature with the biggest names in charity anthology
Fancy appearing in a charity anthology in aid of cancer patients, alongside the likes of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Penelope Shuttle and Sharon Olds? Indigo Dreams is looking for subm...
12th November 2012
Texperiments: Winston reflects on 'amazing' response
Winston Plowes has delivered his verdict on the Texperiments involving poetic text messages he conducted on behalf of National Poetry Day last month.
“Dear Texters, Texperiments HQ has now clos...
12th November 2012
Council's leisure chief to be quizzed at Write Out Loud Stockport
Stockport council’s head of culture and leisure, Peter Ashworth, is to attend tonight’s meeting of Write Out Loud Stockport on 12 November to answer questions from Write Out Loud members concerned ...
12th November 2012
First Vera, now Carol: laureate celebrates Dover's White Cliffs
Carol Ann Duffy has celebrated the “glittering breastplate” of Dover’s White Cliffs in a poem to mark the success of a public appeal by the National Trust to buy one of the last stretches of the na...
12th November 2012
Liars and looters: the saints of our new age?
Illustrations of imagined, 21st century patron saints are on show at the Poetry Cafe in London’s Covent Garden this week and next to accompany the launch on Wednesday 7 November of Maggie Butt’s co...
12th November 2012
Think only this of them: War Poetry on video for today
Have a look at these war poems read by Sean Bean and Sophie Okenedo for Remembrance Sunday:
12th November 2012
Ruth Padel's Poetry Workshop is back on BBC Radio 4
A new series of Ruth Padel’s Poetry Workshop started on Sunday 4 November, on BBC Radio 4, with the first episode featuring the Dove Cottage Poets of Grasmere. The first series earlier this year in...
9th November 2012
Make it your day, on the advent poetry calendar
An online poetry advent calendar is once more looking for submissions, so that it can feature a new poem every day throughout December. The calendar (“just a little idea I had on a boring November ...
8th November 2012
Work Horses: David Cooke
David Cooke won acclaim with a Gregory award in his youth, before decades of immersion in teaching almost extinguished his poetry. He left education to set up as an online bookseller, and the poems...
8th November 2012
Spotlight falls on Write Out Loud Wigan tonight
The stage is set for another rollicking Write Out Loud Wigan night at the Tudor on Thursday 8 November. Entry is free and the open mic fun starts at 8.30pm. More details and Map.
8th November 2012
Olivia McCannon wins Aldeburgh first collection prize
Olivia McCannon has been named at the Aldeburgh poetry festival as winner of this year’s Fenton Aldeburgh first collection prize 2012. Her collection, Exactly My Own Length, is published by Carcan...
4th November 2012
Mid-November deadline for Iota Shots pamphlet competition
The 19 November deadline is approaching for submissions to the Iota Shots short poetry pamphlet competition. Poets are invited to submit between 12 and 16 pages of poetry – it could be a series of ...
3rd November 2012
Join in at Write Out Loud's new poetry workshop
Feeling a bit “stuck” with your writing? Falling into the same old rhythms, ideas, and thought processes? Or just fancy something a bit different? Well, we at Write Out Loud aim to change all th...
3rd November 2012
Patience Agbabi to mentor three Arvon poets
Patience Agbabi will be mentoring three poets in the Jerwood/Arvon mentoring scheme, open for applications from UK writers who attended an Arvon course in 2012. The scheme is designed for those int...
3rd November 2012
Cambridge's museums to inspire poets
Cambridge University is linking up 10 leading poets with museums and collections across the university, with the writers each commissioned to produce a poem inspired by exhibits at their museum.
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3rd November 2012
Poetic voices of South Asian women at literature festival
Three South Asian poets, Sweta Srivatava Vikram, Shanta Acharya, and Shazea Quraishi, will be appearing at the Bush theatre, Shepherd’s Bush, London, on Saturday 3 November, from 7-8.30pm as part o...
3rd November 2012
George Szirtes to judge Poetry Book Society's student competition
George Szirtes will be judging the Poetry Book Society’s first student poetry competition. It’s free to enter – and although entrants have to be members of the PBS, that’s free too if you’re a stud...
3rd November 2012
Bowled over at the Aldeburgh poetry festival
Sun Stops Play, a “mock lecture” on the language of cricket and poetry, could well turn out to be one of the highlights of the Aldeburgh poetry festival this weekend, 2-4 November. Delivered by aw...
1st November 2012
