We Have to Leave the Earth: Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Seren
Bearing witness to environmental issues that interweave with our vulnerable and imperfect human condition is the reflection that Carolyn Jess-Cooke develops in her poems.
The collection is divided into four sections that consistently and clearly explore themes linked to global warming in the Arctic and the consequences for the planet; the author’s experience as a mother of an autistic child; Jo...
28th February 2022
Seasons of Damage and Beauty: Paul Surman, Dempsey & Windle
Oxford-based poet Paul Surman has written poetry since he was a teenager but did not make any serious move to get his work published until he retired early in 2004. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and his first collection, Places (Oversteps Books) was published in 2018. He is a member of...
28th February 2022
Spoken word artist's book seeks to empower South Asian women
A book by a spoken word artist from east London that has been described as both a memoir and a guide to empowerment for South Asian women and girls has been featured on Channel 4 News.
Brown Girl L...
28th February 2022
After six-year 'exile' poets are back at Sowerby Bridge's Puzzle Hall
The Puzzle poetry open mic night has returned to its eponymous home at the Puzzle Hall pub in Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, in another welcome sign of live grassroots poetry making a comeback after ...
28th February 2022
Write Out Loud in Worcester tonight
Write Out Loud’s newest poetry night is opening its doors again on Monday 28 February for all those who enjoy writing, reading - or just listening. Worcester Write Out Loud will be meeting at the Hist...
28th February 2022
Zephaniah warns against plan to cut access to student loans
The poet and academic Benjamin Zephaniah, who a professor of creative writing at Brunel University, has warned against government proposals that would see anyone failing GCSE maths and English barred ...
27th February 2022
Wordsworth's 'Daffodils' manuscript goes on show at Grasmere
A manuscript of the William Wordsworth poem most associated with the Lake District has returned to Cumbria. A handwritten copy of ‘I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud’ has gone on show at Wordsworth Grasmere...
22nd February 2022
Stories collected by Poet on the Street reveal another side of city
A book that maps a poetic history of Winchester and was brought about by Winchester poetry festival’s Poet on the Street, Jonny Fluffypunk, has been published.
Winchester: A Poetic History in Incon...
16th February 2022
Mike Booth is guest host at Write Out Loud Sale
Experienced compere Mike Booth will be guest host at Write Out Loud Sale at the Waterside arts centre, Sale on Monday 21 February. It’s nothing but open mic this month – five-minute slots and it start...
13th February 2022
Margate to mark centenary of TS Eliot's The Waste Land
In a seaside shelter at Margate in 1921, TS Eliot wrote the lines: "On Margate Sands./I can connect/Nothing with nothing./The broken fingernails of dirty hands./My people humble people who expect/Noth...
10th February 2022
Selima Hill shortlisted for £30,000 Rathbones Folio prize
Selima Hill is the only poet to have been shortlisted for this year's £30,000 Rathbones Folio prize, an award which is open to all works of literature written in English, it has been revealed. She joi...
10th February 2022
Where is Innocent Bahati? Worldwide concern over Rwandan poet missing for a year
It is a year since popular Rwandan poet Innocent Bahati disappeared in suspicious circumstances, prompting over 100 writers, including Margaret Atwood, Ben Okri, and JM Coetzee, to call on Rwandan pre...
7th February 2022
'Joyous and universal': Hannah Lowe wins £30,000 Costa book of the year for 'The Kids'
Hannah Lowe has won the overall £30,000 Costa book of the year award for her poetry collection The Kids, it was announced on Tuesday night. The chair of judges, BBC news journalist Reeta Chakrabarti, ...
3rd February 2022
Long and winding road, or ‘motorway of Wales’? Bilingual anthology will celebrate the A470
A bilingual English-Welsh poetry anthology celebrating a road that runs the length of Wales, from Llandudno to Cardiff, will be released on St David’s Day by independent publisher Arachne Press. A470:...
1st February 2022
Clanchy finds new publisher for book revised after 'racism' row
Swift Press will publish Kate Clanchy’s Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, along with her prose backlist, after Pan Macmillan parted company with the poet and author, The Bookseller has repor...
1st February 2022
