Last day of voting in Saboteur awards - deadline is midnight tonight
Hollie McNish, Salena Godden, Dominic Berry, Lisa Luxx, and Caleb Femi are on the shortlist for best spoken word performer in the Saboteur awards, it was announced on Monday by organisers Sabotage Reviews. Voting is now open until 30 April to find the winners.
The best spoken word night contenders are the nationwide That’s What She Said; Wakefield’s Unity Words; Evidently, from Salford; Edinbur...
30th April 2017
Tony Harrison to give 80th birthday reading at Salts Mill
Celebrated poet and playwright Tony Harrison will be marking his 80th birthday on 30 April with a reading at Salts Mill, Saltaire, near Bradford. Leeds-born Harrison is regarded as one of Britain’s foremost verse writers. Thirty years ago his poem ‘v.’, about the desecration of his parents’ graves b...
30th April 2017
Attila the Stockbroker to mark Brighton's promotion to Premier League with poem on the pitch
Performance poet and devoted and tireless football fan Attila the Stockbroker, who has been Brighton and Hove Albion’s poet in residence since 2000, will perform his poem ‘Goldstone Ghosts’ on the pit...
29th April 2017
Party night at London's Rich Mix for poets inspired by hip hop
Poets Inua Ellams, Maria Ferguson, Anthony Anaxagorou, Bridget Minamore, Omar Bynon, Ruth Sutoyé, Lionheart, Belinda Zhawi, Emmanuel Sugo, and Theresa Lola will be taking part in an evening of hip hop...
27th April 2017
Feasting on words: Write Out Loud's Poetry Lunch at literary festival in Woking
Write Out Loud is presenting a Poetry Lunch featuring four guest poets and a host of open micers at a literary festival in Woking on Saturday 22 April. Geoff ‘Speech Painter’ Allnutt, Alison Hill, Mag...
21st April 2017
Write Out Loud Sale at the Waterside tonight
Jolivia Gaston, Stuart Buck and Jo Williams are the guests at Write Out Loud Sale, on Tuesday 18 April at the Waterside arts centre, Sale. Entry is £3/£2 to this open mic poetry night, which starts at...
18th April 2017
Write Out Loud Woking at the New Inn tonight
Write Out Loud Woking is at the New Inn, Send, near Woking on Easter Monday 17 April for another night of open-mic poetry. Your hosts are Greg Freeman and Rodney Wood. Free entry. Sign up from 7.30pm ...
17th April 2017
Write Out Loud at Bolton Socialist Club tonight
Write Out Loud Bolton meets at Bolton Socialist Club on Easter Sunday 16 April for a night of open-mic poetry compered by Gordon Zola and Jeffarama! It starts at 7.30pm and entry is £1 plus raffle. M...
16th April 2017
Steve Pottinger at Write Out Loud Wigan tonight
Steve Pottinger will be appearing at Write Out Loud Wigan on Thursday 13 April as part of a special Wigan arts festival event. Entry is free to this open mic poetry event at the Old Courts in Wigan. I...
13th April 2017
Write Out Loud at Stockport art gallery tonight
Members of Write Out Loud Stockport will be meeting at Stockport art gallery on Monday 10 April to share their poems. Each month a collage poem is produced from contributions, and you can read March’s...
10th April 2017
Hollie McNish's poetic memoir about motherhood wins Ted Hughes award
Hollie McNish has won this year’s £5,000 Ted Hughes award for new work in poetry for her poetic memoir Nobody Told Me, which has been described as a collection of “diary” poems and stories, documentin...
7th April 2017
Stephen Sexton wins £5,000 National Poetry Competition
Stephen Sexton has won this year’s £5,000 National Poetry Competition with his poem ‘The Curfew’, the Poetry Society announced on Wednesday night. The winning poem combines reminiscence about a legend...
5th April 2017
'Babi Yar' poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko dies aged 84
The Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who gained international fame with ‘Babi Yar’, a poem that told of the slaughter of nearly 34,000 Jews by the Nazis in Ukraine, has died at the age of 84.
Yevt...
4th April 2017
Start today - prompts aplenty on the way during National Poetry Writing Month
It's April - and National Poetry Writing Month has begun. It’s an idea that has gone global, with poets around the world invited to try writing a daily poem for a month - 30 poems in 30 days. You can ...
4th April 2017
Mark Pajak at Puzzle Poets in Sowerby Bridge tonight
Bridport prize winner Mark Pajak is guest poet at Puzzle Poets Live at the Blind Pig pub in Sowerby Bridge, on Monday 3 April. Winston Plowes is also on the bill, plus open mic. More details
3rd April 2017
