Write Out Loud at Middleton tonight
Katie Haigh is the guest poet at Write Out Loud Middleton on Sunday 30 June, at the Ring O’ Bells pub, St Leonard’s Square, Middleton, starting at 7pm. Contact gemmathepoet@hotmail.co.uk. Entry is a £2 donation. More details and map
30th June 2013
Pointing Scotland's emerging poets in the right direction
Bloodaxe editor Neil Astley will be speaking at the Poet’s Compass, a conference for Scotland’s emerging poets, on Saturday 29 June at CCA, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow.
Topics include the state of poetry publishing, and how to make editors sit up and want to publish you; the role of the small...
25th June 2013
Net stretches across north at writers awards in Newcastle
Poets Ian Duhig, from Leeds, Carolyn Jess-Cooke (Whitley Bay), Geraldine Monk and Susannah Evans, both from Sheffield, and Zaffar Kunial (Shipley) were among the cash-winning writers announced this...
20th June 2013
Loose Muse spreads the love: today Manchester, tomorrow?..
Women poets who attended Loose Muse’s first open mic night in Manchester earlier this year are being urged to submit poems to the women-only group’s latest, fourth anthology.
There were an esti...
20th June 2013
Diana Gittins and the poetry of poultry
Diana Gittins will be reading from her Happenstance pamphlet, Bork!, a collection of poems about keeping chickens, in Wadebridge, Cornwall, on Saturday 22 June, at a joint event put on by Camelford...
20th June 2013
Poets urged to show support for Turkish protesters
Poets were urged to show their sympathy for protesters in Istanbul, as riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters occupying Taksim Square, arrested protesting lawyers, and entered Ge...
20th June 2013
Rage against the machinations at Write Out Loud Marsden tonight
Rage, rage against the dying of the light; or the lying of the diet, or any other rage that takes your fancy, for such was the theme chosen for them as wants one, for Write Out Loud at Marsden on W...
19th June 2013
Angela Topping and Louise Fazackerley at Write Out Loud Sale tonight
Angela Topping and Louise Fazackerley are the guest poets at Write Out Loud Sale, hosted by Rod Tame, on Tuesday 18 June, at 7.30pm at the Waterside arts centre, Sale. Make sure you arrive early to...
18th June 2013
Write Out Loud at Stockport tonight
Members of Stockport Write Out Loud will be sharing their poems again at Stockport art gallery on Monday, 17 June, at 7pm. Entry is a £1 donation. More details and Map
17th June 2013
The Write Out Loud interview: Tony Walsh
John Hegley has described the poems in his first full collection as “ fired and inspiring”. He is a towering presence – in every sense – on the performance poetry scene. Tony Walsh – aka Longfella ...
15th June 2013
Guitar n' Verse Out Loud: Jeff and Andy team up at Cadence and Didsbury festivals
There are two nights coming up combining Guitar n' Verse and Write Out Loud and featuring Jeffarama! aka Jeff Dawson and Andy N and their A Means To An End music and verse. On Saturday 15 June they...
13th June 2013
Write Out Loud at Wigan tonight
Isobel will be compering and keeping in order the Write Out Loud regulars and irregulars on Thursday, 13 June, at the Tudor House hotel in Wigan. The open mic night begins at 8.30pm and entry is fr...
13th June 2013
Carol Ann Duffy's poem to mark 60th anniversary of coronation
The poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has delivered a poem to mark the 60th anniversary of the Queen’s coronation. You can read it here
11th June 2013
The Write Out Loud interview: Ira Lightman
He has been dubbed the poetry sleuth, tracking down plagiarism online and establishing the scale of the misdeeds of serial offenders such as Christian Ward and David R Morgan. Some in the poetry wo...
9th June 2013
Poets to talk about rare toad and tropical birds at London Zoo
Poets Glyn Maxwell and Ruth Padel will be revealing their thoughts about the Mallorcan midwife toad and humming birds, bleeding heart doves and amethyst starlings in separate talks at the London Zo...
9th June 2013
Pussy Riot protest anthology a winner at indie lit awards
Catechism: Poems for Pussy Riot, a collection of poems assembled to support a jailed Russian punk band and published in association with English PEN, won the title of best poetry anthology at the S...
6th June 2013
Emma Decent tells of her family secrets on Radio 4
Performance poet Emma Decent appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Midweek programme with Libby Purves on Wednesday 5 June to talk about her one-woman show Beyond Dreams of Aberystwyth, and its autobiographica...
6th June 2013
Voting deadline nears for Morning Star's Protest in Poetry award
The deadline is Thursday 6 June at noon to take part in voting for the Morning star newspaper’s first award for Protest in Poetry. Voters are invited to nominate whatever they think has made the bi...
5th June 2013
