Walsh, Fox and Cookson at Prestwich book festival
Tony Walsh, pictured, Kate Fox and Paul Cookson will be providing some of the poetic highlights at Prestwich book festival in north Manchester, starting next month and running until the middle of June. Walsh (aka Longfella) and BBC Radio Saturday Live’s Fox will be featured acts at Vocabaret, upstairs at the Church Inn on 15 May at 7.30pm. Cookson, poet in residence at Manchester’s National foo...
21st April 2013
Poets urged to sign up for Wirral festival's Proms
Wirral Festival of Firsts is inviting poets to sign up to perform at the Poetry Proms, which have relocated this year from Hoylake to New Brighton, on Saturday 6 July. Organisers say there will be lots of performance opportunities at a number of venues, including the Fort Perch Rock, and the newl...
29th March 2013
Words Together festival looks to its grassroots
Lemn Sissay, Ben Mellor, Dominic Berry and Monkey Poet are among the headline poetry acts at Leigh and Wigan Words Together literary festival from 1-13 April, which announced its programme earlier ...
17th March 2013
Words Together festival looks to its grassroots
Lemn Sissay, Ben Mellor, Dominic Berry and Monkey Poet are among the headline poetry acts at Leigh and Wigan Words Together literary festival from 1-13 April, which announced its programme earlier ...
14th March 2013
Rise is debut collection from Darren Thomas
North-west poet and Write Out Loud regular Darren Thomas is author of a debut collection, a sequence of poems mainly but not exclusively about gaining, enjoying and losing love. Rise is published a...
6th March 2013
