Dominic Bury wins National Poetry Competition
Dominic Bury has won this year’s National Poetry Competition with his poem ‘The Opened Field’. The chair of the judges, Pascale Petit, said: " ‘The Opened Field’ is a neutron star of a poem compressed inside the restraining machinery of a sestina. It’s a dark allegory of six boys in a field, but I did not realise it was a sestina until a second reading, when I started to work out what the boys wer...
31st March 2018
New anthology includes poems by those close to tragedy
An anthology of poems in aid of victims of the Grenfell Tower disaster will be launched next month. Poems for Grenfell Tower, which includes poems by Anne Stevenson, Michael Rosen, George Szirtes and many others, will be published by Onslaught Press on 30 March.
Seventy-one people, according to o...
31st March 2018
Dylan Thomas Day's international Appeal
Dylan Thomas Day, celebrating the poet’s life and work, has been announced, with an open, international invitation to join in.
For the past three years, Dylan Thomas Day has been held on 14th May, ...
31st March 2018
Deadline day to nominate your favourite spoken word performer or regular spoken word night
It’s time to nominate your favourite spoken word performer or regular spoken word night in the 2018 indie-lit Saboteur awards. The awards, organised by the Sabotage Reviews website, cover a host of ca...
31st March 2018
Project inspired by Northumberland coast at Newcastle poetry festival
Waves and Bones, a project sponsored by the Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding National Beauty Partnership, will be launched at Newcastle poetry festival at the beginning of May.
A group of p...
28th March 2018
Seven contenders on shortlist for Ted Hughes award
Jay Bernard, Caroline Bird, Kayo Chingonyi, Inua Ellams, Matthew Francis, Antony Owen and Greta Stoddart have been shortlisted for the £5,000 Ted Hughes award for new work in poetry, the Poetry Societ...
28th March 2018
Poets from more than 20 countries at World Poetry Day reading in Preston
Poets from more than 20 countries will be reading at a special World Poetry Day event in Preston on Wednesday 21 March. The free event is taking place at the Ham & Jam Coffee Shop, in Lancaster Road, ...
21st March 2018
Something to get your teeth into at Write Out Loud Marsden tonight
The theme is food at Write Out Loud Marsden at Marsden Mechanics, Peel Street, Marsden on Wednesday 21 March. Bring tasty poems, stories or songs, and even food, for a feast of words. Entry is £2 to t...
21st March 2018
Write Out Loud Sale at the Waterside tonight
Carol Robson and Lenni Sanders are the guests at Write Out Loud Sale at the Waterside arts centre, Sale, on Tuesday 20 March. Entry is £3/£2 to this open mic poetry event. It begins at 7.30 pm. More d...
20th March 2018
Write Out Loud at Stockport art gallery tonight
Write Out Loud Stockport will be meeting this month on Monday 19 March at Stockport art gallery for another readaround of poems. Each month poetic contributions are stitched into a collage poem, and y...
19th March 2018
Write Out Loud Woking at the New Inn tonight
Kitty Coles is the featured poet at Write Out Loud Woking at the New Inn, Send, near Woking, on Monday 19 March. Sign up from 7.30pm for the open-mic, at this free poetry night compered by Greg Freema...
19th March 2018
Write Out Loud at Bolton Socialist Club on Sunday
It’s Write Out Loud Bolton at Bolton Socialist Club on Sunday 18 March. Your hosts are Jeffarama! and Gordon Zola at this open mic poetry night. Doors open from 7.30pm for 8pm start. Entry is £1 plus ...
16th March 2018
John Cooper Clarke to publish memoirs and new poetry collection
John Cooper Clarke is to publish both his autobiography, and his first new poetry collection in 37 years, publisher Picador has announced. The memoir is said by Picador to cover “an extraordinary life...
15th March 2018
Farewell to Ken Dodd ... but tongue-twister poem lives on
A funny thing happened on Write Out Loud, on the day that veteran comedian Ken Dodd’s death was announced … a poem that was first blogged on the site back in 2011 received a remarkable 1,554 views.
...15th March 2018
International Women's Day launch for #MeToo anthology
It’s International Women’s Day on Thursday 8 March – and an important anthology of women’s poetry is being launched on the same day. #MeToo, an anthology of women’s experiences and responses inspired...
8th March 2018
Write Out Loud Wigan at the Old Courts tonight
Write Out Loud Wigan is back at the Old Courts in Crawford Street, Wigan on Thursday 8 March. Entry is free for this open mic poetry event, beginning at 8.30pm. More details and Map
8th March 2018
Kate Tempest to publish new poetry collection on heartbreak and redemption
Kate Tempest is to publish a new collection of “free-standing poetry” including “formal poems, spoken songs, fragments, vignettes and ballads” later this year, her publisher Picador has announced.
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6th March 2018
Collection of art and poetry on stillbirth to be launched
A book of art and poetry about stillbirth - the death of a baby, over 24 weeks old, before or during delivery – is to be launched in Newcastle later this month. Still Born is by artist Adinda van ’t K...
3rd March 2018
