Poetry heroes: chance to read favourite poems at Manchester event tonight
John G Hall and Shirley May will be the headline poets at Homer to Heaney, where established and newer poets recite the work of their heroes, at Fuel café, Withington, Manchester, on Saturday 27 May from 9.30pm to 12, with an open mic as well to read your own work or poems by other poets. The event is in aid of Venture Arts in Manchester, which runs arts workshops for adults with learning disabili...
27th May 2017
Dominic Berry wins Saboteur award for best spoken word performer
Dominic Berry has won this year’s Saboteur award for best spoken word performer, it was announced on Saturday night at the awards evening in London. Manchester-based Dominic, who pipped Hollie McNish, is touring two shows, his adult verse ‘No Tigers’, and a family retelling of ‘The Boy Who Cried Wol...
22nd May 2017
Write Out Loud at Bolton Socialist Club tonight
Write Out Loud Bolton will be meeting at Bolton Socialist Club on Sunday 21 May at 7.30pm for an 8pm start. Entry is £1 plus raffle to this open mic poetry event compered by Jeffarama! and Gordon Zola...
21st May 2017
Boxing clever: young Theatre Royal poets put mental health issues into words
The visual performance aids are just 10 cardboard boxes, with one poet guiding the audience through the show, putting on a posh accent, as if it was an exhibition. The Theatre Royal Stratford East’s Y...
17th May 2017
Write Out Loud Sale at the Waterside tonight
Martin Zarrop and Joel Sadler-Puckering are the guest poets at Write Out Loud Sale on Tuesday 16 May at the Waterside arts centre, Sale. Entry is £3/£2 to this open mic event. It starts at 7.30pm - bu...
16th May 2017
Write Out Loud Woking celebrates first anniversary at the New Inn tonight
Write Out Loud Woking will be celebrating its first anniversary at the New Inn, Send, near Woking, on Monday 15 May. Entry is free, and you can sign up from 7.30 onwards for the open mic. It starts at...
15th May 2017
Kathy D'Arcy and Alisha Kaplan win Hippocrates prizes for poetry and medicine
Kathy D’Arcy, pictured, from Cork, and Alisha Kaplan, from Toronto, are the 2017 winners of the Hippocrates health professional and open prizes for poetry and medicine, it was announced at Harvard Med...
15th May 2017
London, Swansea, New York, Australia, Italy: Dylan Day has global reach
Readings at a favourite pub haunt of Dylan Thomas in London; performances, a walk, jazz, talks and film in his birthplace Swansea; and events in New York, Australia, and Italy will all form part of th...
14th May 2017
From books to magazines: new poetry fair in London on Saturday
Free Verse, organisers of the annual Poetry Book Fair in London, are staging a new event next month – a poetry magazine fair. Print magazines such as Acumen, Agenda, Ambit, Butcher's Dog, The Frogmore...
12th May 2017
Lessons of New Cross: poet Jay Bernard at the Last Word festival
In 1981, 13 young black people were killed in a house fire in New Cross, south-east London. The fire is shrouded in mystery and controversy; it was never confirmed whether the fatal blaze was accident...
12th May 2017
Write Out Loud Wigan at the Old Courts tonight
Write Out Loud will be convening at the Old Courts, Wigan on Thursday 11 May for another night of free, open mic poetry. It begins at 8pm in the Bailiff bar. More details and Map
11th May 2017
Write Out Loud at Stockport art gallery tonight
Write Out Loud Stockport will meet on Monday 8 May to share poems at Stockport art gallery. Each month a collage poems is produced from group contributions, and you can read April’s here. Entry is a £...
8th May 2017
Poetry and much more at festival in Charles Causley's centenary year
The Charles Causley festival taking place in Launceston from 1-5 June has a special significance this year - 2017 is the centenary of the birth of the Cornish poet. Causley, who died in 2003, wrote f...
5th May 2017
Fore! Golf's laureate aims to inspire more people to take up the game
The poetry of golf, anyone? National Golf Month, which begins on 1 May, has appointed its first golf laureate to help reverse the decline in the game and inspire people to take up the sport.
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2nd May 2017
TV writer and producer Henry Normal returns to his poetry roots with Manchester book launch
A leading writer, comedian and TV producer with credits such as The Royle Family and Gavin & Stacey is returning to his poetry roots with the launch of a collection of 70 poems selected from his early...
1st May 2017
