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Dominic Berry's wizard new show

Wizard, a new poetry-fantasy-theatre show by Manchester poet Dominic Berry – described as one man and his kettle against the world – is being staged at Contact, Oxford Road, Manchester, from Wednesday 28 March to Saturday 31 March. Suitable for ages 14-plus, tickets are £8/£5. The show starts at 8pm, with an after-show discussion on Thursday 29 March. 

When an agoraphobic wizard shares his ...

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Festivals on the way: line-ups for Cheltenham and Latitude

Organisers of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival are looking for volunteers to help, and are offering free tickets to those that do, Write Out Loud understands. Email cheltpoetryfest@hotmail.co.uk  for more info.

TV presenter and poet Owen Sheers, hip-hop star Dizraeli, (pictured) Penelope Shuttl...

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Winston Plowes is our Bard in the Bog

Write Out Loud’s ever-popular Winston Plowes has found a captive audience for his work – in the public loos of the Shetland Isles.

The Bards in the Bog project  - profits go to the charity Wate...

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Julian Stannard at Portsmouth's Tongues and Grooves

Winchester poet Julian Stannard is guest at  Portsmouth’s Tongues and Grooves, on Sunday 25 March at the Florence Arms, Southsea, at 8pm. Entry is £3 to this open mic event. Six open mic slots are ...

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Charlotte Henson at Write Out Loud Middleton

Charlotte Henson is guest poet at Write Out Loud Middleton on Sunday, 25 March. It’s a 7pm start for the open mic night at the Ring O’ Bells, St Leonard’s Square, Middleton, all masterminded by Gem...

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Manchester's Monkey Poet introduces Spoke 'N' Heard

Spoke ‘N’ Heard, a new spoken word night in Manchester compered by Monkey Poet, kicks off on Wednesday 21 March with guests Ross Sutherland and Jackie Hagan at Gullivers pub, Oldham Street, Manches...

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Discovering Japan: Mab Jones on a cultural trip to the far east

Write Out Loud’s performance poetry diarist Mab Jones has headed for Japan to appear in a cultural festival in Osaka later this month. Her performance is part  an annual event celebrating Wales and...

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Write Out Loud Bolton moves to new venue

Write Out Loud Bolton is on the move again  - to the upstairs function room at the Brooklyn pub at Green Lane, Bolton, on Sunday 18 March. The change of venue for the open mic event has been forced...

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Leading poets praise Fiona Sampson

The resignation of the editor of Poetry Review, Fiona Sampson, has prompted a letter of support from an impressive array of poets, including Don Paterson, John Burnside, David Harsent, Jo Shapcott,...

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Magic: new open mic night in Todmorden

A new spoken word open mic night is being launched in Todmorden, with a star line-up of guests – John Clarke and Jimmy Andrews, from Wakefield’s Red Shed, Write Out Loud favourite Winston Plowes, f...

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Write Out Loud Marsden to celebrate World Poetry Day

By happy circumstance, Write Out Loud Marsden coincides this month with World Poetry Day on 21 March. There will be a short talk on – and a couple of poems by - Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, plus the ...

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Poet laureate's poem for Paralympics venue

Carol Ann Duffy, the poet laureate, has given a reading of her poem for London 2012, tracing the 100-year history of the venue chosen for the Paralympics – and spoken of her belief that, just as sp...

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Joy France tours poetry nights to raise charity awareness

Popular north-west poet Joy France is embarking on a mission this month, aiming to attend as many poetry events in the region as she can in order to raise awareness of juvenile diabetes. She will b...

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Fiona Sampson to leave Poetry Review

The editor of Poetry Review, Fiona Sampson, is leaving the Poetry Society to develop her career in other directions, the Poetry Society announced today. The society said: “She is in great demand as...

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Click on this? Poetic links

* Marvellous poem by Charlotte Higgins, one of the Poetry Society's Slambassador winners

* He's still going strong, of course. But here's a short piece about John Cooper-Clarke when he first bu...

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The Men Pomes: all you need to know about men?

Gerry Potter brings his one-man show The Men Pomes – “a mixture of poetics, theatre and stand-up” about working-class men “as you’ve never seen them before” - to Studio Salford above the Kings Arms...

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Established and emerging poets join forces in anthology

An anthology of new poetry from established and emerging writers will be launched on 7 March, at Bar 1:22, 120 New Street, Castlegate, Huddersfield. A Complicated Way Of Being Ignored is published ...

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