'Going, Going, Gone' by Jeff is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week
The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Going, Going, Gone’ by Jeff, about a failed relationship. Jeff says he has been writing poems for the last two years. He says he is no expert on poetry, but it has always brought out “emotions in me”. His political hero is John Cooper Clarke - “he is and always has been an inspiration”. He memorised JCC's 'I married a monster from outer space' and recited it...
24th December 2016
'Forever and a day' by Natasha Bowman is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week
‘Forever and a day’ by Natasha Bowman is the new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week. Natasha, whose profile page on Write Out Loud is labelled Silent Song Symphony Sadness Soul, is a teenager who started writing around the age of 12-13. She says some of the poems that she has posted on Write Out Loud w...
11th December 2016
'Schoolbuddy' by Ray Pool is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week
This week’s Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Schoolbuddy’ by Ray Pool. It’s a poem about finding out about the death of an old musician friend on Facebook - a friend the poet has only recently reco...
4th December 2016
'Take me to tokyo where the lights may blind me' by Stuart Buck is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week
The new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘take me to tokyo where the lights may blind me’ by Stuart Buck, a regular contributor to Write Out Loud. In a quick Q&A Stuart said his principal poetic inf...
27th November 2016
'London Victoria' by Travis Brow is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week
The new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘London Victoria’ by Travis Brow, a tale of unrequited love. The poem has been praised by Write Out Loud regulars like Harry O’Neill, for its “lovely rhymed ...
17th November 2016
'I can't Stop' by Claire is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week
The new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘I Can’t Stop’, by Claire. It’s a poem that celebrates an overflowing sense of creativity, even if “nobody can hear me”. She goes on to to say that she needs...
6th November 2016
'12:26' by Natfastic is the Write Out Loud Poem of the Week
30th October 2016
'Justice' by Suzi Challenger is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week
The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Justice’ by Suzi Challenger. In comments following the posting of the poem, she has said that it was written in response to the much-publicised case of the deat...
23rd October 2016
'Mature Student' by JF Keane is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week
The new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Mature Student’, by JF Keane. John Keane, who organises Write Out Loud Stockport, is an admirer of WB Yeats, and describes ‘Mature Student’ as a “loose paro...
16th October 2016
'Pavement Cafe' by Anna Ghislena is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week
Write Out Loud’s new Poem of the Week is Pavement Cafe, by Anna Ghislena, a vignette of impressions seen through the eyes of a beggar. In her answers to Write Out Loud’s questions Anna reveals herself...
12th October 2016
'The Stone Tape' by Tony Hill is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week
‘The Stone Tape’ by Tony Hill is the new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week. Talking about the poem, Tony said: “The title is a reference to a 1972 BBC production of the same name, quite a chilling ghost...
2nd October 2016
'The black and the white' by Martin Elder is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week
The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘The black and the white’ by Martin Elder, a recollection of the wintry shades of yesteryear – “Everywhere marked with a ring of soot, smoke and steam.” Not so m...
25th September 2016
'I Will Not Drink in Wetherspoon's' by Andy Humphrey is Poem of the Week
‘I will not Drink in Wetherspoon’s’ by Andy Humphrey, a post-referendum poem written in the style of Dr Seuss, is the new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week. Andy is compere at The Speakers Corner in Yor...
21st September 2016
'The plight of the true Snow White' by Alexandra Parapadakis is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week
‘The plight of the true Snow White’ by Alexandra Parapadakis, a poem that questions and upends assumptions behind the traditional and Disneyfied fairy tale, is the new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week....
11th September 2016
'Growing Up' by Eva Curless is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week
The new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Growing up’ by Eva Curless. Eva, a student at Leeds University, is from Wigan and reads at Write Out Loud Wigan at The Old Courts when she is home from univ...
10th September 2016
'My Telephone Week' by Claire Baldry is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week
‘My Telephone Week’, a comic poem by Claire Baldry recounting cold callers offering PPI claims, new boilers, accident compensation, computer scams and more, is the new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week....
30th August 2016
'Lorraine Motel' by Colin Hill is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week
The new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Lorraine Motel’ by Colin Hill, about the former motel in Memphis where Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in 1968, which is now part of the National Civ...
21st August 2016
'Temporal Anomaly' by Trevor Alexander is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week
The new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Temporal Anomaly’ by Trevor Alexander, which cites Albert Einstein and muses on the possibilities and pitfalls of time travel back into the past. In a serie...
14th August 2016
'Nursery for the Old' by RM Carter is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week
The New Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Nursery for the Old’ by RM Carter, who is an English literature and creative writing student at Salford University. The poem describes older people in care ...
10th August 2016
'Tranquil' by Sharvari is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week
The new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Tranquil’ by Sharvari, a poet from India who says on her profile page that she would like to learn more about poetry via Write Out Loud. Describing herself ...
31st July 2016
'Brisbane Road' by Rick Gammon is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week
‘Brisbane Road’ by Rick Gammon is the new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week. A poem about youth and age, it celebrates a goalscoring hero of yesteryear, Tommy Johnston, and imagines a meeting on the ter...
24th July 2016
'Man and Camel, & others, animal' by Dominic James is Poem of the Week
The new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Man and Camel, & others, animal’ by Dominic James, a reflection on the poetry of American Mark Strand, pictured, who died in 2014. In his poem, which also s...
18th July 2016
'Poem' by Chris Laverty is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week
The new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is the lyrical and wistful ‘Poem’ by Chris Laverty. It conjures up a "hazy world" and ends: "We'll hear the waves, and watch their gentle swell." In his replies...
10th July 2016
'Betrayed by the hands' by Phil Kay is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week
The new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Betrayed by the hands’ by Phil Kay, as we remember the centenary of the first world war battle of the Somme. The poem is about men making their final prepa...
4th July 2016
'The Snurdle-urdle-urdle' by Lynn Dye is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week
The new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘The Snurdle-urdle-urdle’ by Lynn Dye, a cautionary tale about a creature who takes liberties after knocking on the door and begging to be allowed to take a...
26th June 2016
'We're off to Never Never Land' by Matthew James is Poem of the Week
The poem ‘We're off to Never never land - Paracetamol, cucumber sandwiches and the lost rent boy Version 2’ by Matthew James is Write Out Loud’s Poem of the Week. Congratulations to Matthew for the l...
21st June 2016
'Spoon With A View' by Jonathan Humble is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week
‘Spoon With A View’, a comic poem about ageing by Jonathan Humble, is the new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week. Jonathan, a deputy headmaster, says on his profile that he has also worked as painter, a ...
13th June 2016
'Vial' by David Blake is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week
The new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Vial’ by David Blake. David is in his mid-20s, and lives in Bristol. He has been interested in poetry “since primary school”, and began writing it again at ...
5th June 2016
'You Should Have been Here Yesterday' by Suki Spangles is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week
‘You Should Have Been Here Yesterday (Copenhagen Unicorns And Stockholm Starfish)’ by Suki Spangles is the new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week. Suki told us: “Although I have been writing poetry on an...
5th June 2016
'Following the Money' by Tim Ellis is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week
The new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Following the Money’, a poem about fracking in Yorkshire, by Tim Ellis. The poem compares gas and oil workers to Viking raiders and says: “The peaceful vill...
28th May 2016
'Tourdion' by Chris Stevenson is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week
The new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Tourdion’ by Chris Stevenson. On his profile page Chris, who was born in Lytham, says: ” I was born on the coast, across the road from the windmill and the ...
8th May 2016
'Cursed Be He That Moves My Bones' by Ian Whiteley is Poem of the Week
The new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is the timely ‘Cursed Be He That Moves My Bones’, by Ian Whiteley. It’s a sonnet whose title comes from the inscription on William Shakespeare’s tomb, in the we...
4th May 2016
'Airways, Breathing, Circulation' by Peter Knaggs is Poem of the Week
The latest Poem of the Week chosen for Write Out Loud is ‘Airways, Breathing, Circulation’ , by Peter Knaggs. The title of the poem, posted in the week of the inquest verdicts on the Hillsborough disa...
3rd May 2016
'Rose Petals' by Nicola Beckett is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week
The new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Rose Petals', by Nicola Beckett. On her brief profile summary she says she has been “dubbed a confessional poet”. One reader of the poem described it as “be...
18th April 2016
Write Out Loud's first Poem of the Week: 'The lovers' by Mike Watts
Write Out Loud’s first Poem of the Week is ‘The lovers’ by Mike Watts, which was chosen by a member of our editorial team from all the poems posted on our blogs last week. As you can see, one enthusia...
10th April 2016
Coming soon ... picking a Poem of the Week on Write Out Loud
Write Out Loud is launching a new feature called Poem of the Week, to recognise the high quality of poetry that is regularly produced on this site. Each week a member of Write Out Loud’s editorial tea...
3rd April 2016
