Paul Muldoon reads from collaboration with US artist Philip Pearlstein at British Library
Paul Muldoon will be reading from The Castle of Perseverance, a book that pairs new sequences of his poems with watercolours by American painter Philip Pearlstein (1924- 2022), revered as one of the modern masters of figurative art, at the British Library in London on Friday 10 February at 7pm. Muldoon’s words are matched to Pearlstein’s images of terracotta objects and fragments of gods, goddesse...
31st January 2023
Workwear: Carla Scarano D'Antonio, The High Window Press
There is much to admire and enjoy in Workwear. Carla Scarano D’Antonio’s clarity of vision, disarming directness and artist’s eye for detail take us on a journey in which portraiture, domesticity and the melding of her Italian heritage and life in contemporary Britain combine to create a rewarding a...
30th January 2023
Eight-hour Poem-A-Thon aims to rase £10,000 for food banks
Forty-eight poets will be taking part in a Poem-A-Thon on Saturday 11 February in Walthamstow, north-east London, to raise money for local food banks. The event will take place in Ye Olde Rose and Cr...
30th January 2023
Smartphone trail celebrates Yeats links in Nobel centenary year
TV and radio presenter Jeremy Vine has launched a smartphone trail of eight poetry places associated with WB Yeats in the west London suburb of Bedford Park, Chiswick. 'Discover Bedford Park with WB Y...
28th January 2023
Ian McMillan to judge £1,000 Rialto/RSPB nature and place competition
Ian McMillan will be judging the £1,000 Rialto and RSPB Nature and Place poetry competition. The deadline is 1 March. More details
28th January 2023
Bolton calling! Jeff Dawson recites poem on radio in support of town down on its luck
Bolton poet Jeff Dawson was featured this week on a BBC Radio Manchester programme about his home town, which has missed out on the government’s ‘levelling up’ grants, despite making a bid for million...
25th January 2023
Anthony Joseph wins £25,000 TS Eliot prize with Sonnets for Albert
Anthony Joseph has won the £25,000 TS Eliot Prize for poetry for his collection Sonnets for Albert, it was announced on Monday night. The autobiographical collection follows on from his earlier work B...
17th January 2023
Writer and poet Ronald Blythe dies aged 100
The oldest member of Suffolk Poetry Society, the celebrated writer and poet Ronald Blythe, has died at the age of 100. Seven years ago he spoke at Aldeburgh poetry festival, at an event reported by Wr...
17th January 2023
Countdown for the 10 contenders for £25,000 TS Eliot Prize
It’s the countdown to the TS Eliot Prize readings, which take place at the Royal Festival Hall at London’s Southbank Centre on Sunday 15 January, starting at 7pm. Tickets are still available, but if y...
15th January 2023
'A poet who will not conform to expectations': Selima Hill wins King's Gold Medal for Poetry
Selima Hill has been awarded the King’s Gold Medal for Poetry, Buckingham Palace has announced. A committee chaired by the poet laureate Simon Armitage recommended her as the 2022 recipient on the bas...
14th January 2023
Poet Kevin Higgins who sent poems from hospital dies aged 56
The Irish poet Kevin Higgins, who continued to write poems in hospital as he lay seriously ill with leukaemia, has died in Galway at the age of 56. The poems were published regularly in the Galway Adv...
14th January 2023
Poetry publisher Penned in the Margins announces 'indefinite hiatus'
The independent and innovative poetry publisher Penned in the Margins, whose recent title The English Summer by Holly Hopkins was shortlisted for this year Forward best first collection prize, has ann...
13th January 2023
Poet of the borderlands: uncovering the riches of Northumberland with Noel Hodgson
To Horncliffe, the most northerly village in England, on the southern side of the river Tweed, for a poetry reading. It is what the Scots call a dreich day, cold and wet. Well, it is January. But the ...
12th January 2023
Live at Bilston town hall ... Brian Bilston
The publicity-shy ‘poet laureate of Twitter’, Brian Bilston, will be making a live appearance at - where else? - Bilston town hall, on Thursday 9 February in a Wolverhampton literature festival event....
10th January 2023
'I know I have the blood of survivors coursing through my veins'
This poem will be my statement for a rather abrupt and unexpected ending to my role as the editor of American Life in Poetry. The poem is one of resilience — the resilience of my ancestors and those t...
10th January 2023
Serbian-US poet Charles Simic dies aged 84
A Serbian-born American poet who as a child survived second world war bombings of his city of Belgrade has died at the age of 84. In his early childhood in the former Yugoslavia Charles Simic and his ...
10th January 2023
Sorry for the 'security warning' ... we hope all is now back to normal
Apologies to Write Out Loud users who found themselves unable to access the website for a time on Monday because of an unusual security warning that appeared on their computers. We’re sorry to say tha...
10th January 2023
Rallying against the invader: anthology of 100 Russian anti-war poems is launched
An anthology of 100 poems by writers in Russia, Ukraine and the Russian diaspora expressing their outrage and disbelief about Vladimir’s Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has been published on the first day...
1st January 2023
