Hacienda poet recalls 'fantastic' tour as he looks forward to London screening of documentary
Performance poet Trev Meaney will be delivering his commissioned poem about Manchester’s fabled Hacienda night club before a screening of a documentary about the club in London on Thursday 23 February.
Trev said: “I was lucky enough to be asked by the director Chris Hughes to be commissioned to do a poem for the documentary Do You Own the Dancefloor. I have performed the poem before the showing...
22nd February 2017
Tom Raworth, innovative poet who helped to shake up the 60s, dies aged 78
Tom Raworth, a poet highly regarded on both sides of the Atlantic, and who was seen as a key figure in the modernist-inspired movement known as the British Poetry Revival of the 1960s and 70s, has died at the age of 78.
His publishers Carcanet said: “We are devastated to announce the passing of g...
22nd February 2017
Write Out Loud Sale at the Waterside tonight
Ella Otomeyo and Cathy Bryant are the guest poets at Write Out Loud Sale at the Waterside arts centre, Sale on Tuesday 21 February. Entry is £3/£2 to this open-mic poetry night. It starts at 7.30pm, b...
21st February 2017
Wendy Cope, Luke Wright, Zena Edwards and Francesca Beard at arts centre festival in former church
Wendy Cope, Luke Wright, Zena Edwards and Francesca Beard are among the poets lined up for a four-day festival of poetry, comedy and storytelling at the Landmark Arts Centre in Teddington, south-west ...
21st February 2017
Write Out Loud Woking at the New Inn tonight
Write Out Loud Woking will be meeting again on Monday 20 February at the New Inn at Send, near Woking, for another night of free, open-mic poetry. It’s hosted by Greg Freeman and Rodney Wood. Sign fro...
20th February 2017
Write Out Loud at Bolton Socialist Club tonight
Write Out Loud Bolton returns to its old slot – the third Sunday of each month – at Bolton Socialist Club on Sunday 19 February. Entry is £1 plus raffle at this open-mic poetry event compered by Jeffa...
19th February 2017
Write Out Loud at Stockport art gallery tonight
Write Out Loud Stockport will be meeting at Stockport art gallery on Monday 13 February at 7pm to share poems. Entry is a £1 donation. Each month a collage poem is produced from members’ contributions...
13th February 2017
US poet and 'inspirational teacher' Thomas Lux dies at 70
The American poet and university teacher Thomas Lux, who has died at the age of 70, has been described as “an inspirational teacher” by one of his former students.
Lux’s poetry has appeared in the ...
10th February 2017
Love, poetry and the whole damn thing: Write Out Loud at Wigan tonight
Bring your words of love, stanzas on sex and rhymes of romance to Write Out Loud Wigan’s Valentine’s Special at the Old Courts on Thursday 9 February. There will be prizes for the soppiest poem - and ...
9th February 2017
'Help each other, and we all get up the ladder': Jo Bell goes Nationwide in latest poetic TV ad
The former canal laureate Jo Bell has joined the growing corps of poets recruited for TV adverts by Nationwide building society. Jo’s poem about how the Nationwide building society began, and why, was...
9th February 2017
