Football stand stanzas: how perusing programme verses became part of the pre-match entertainment at Portsmouth FC
I heard that Portsmouth Football Club were planning a series of projects to mark their 125th anniversary. I saw a tweet that the club, and the Portsmouth FC History Society in particular, were looking for people to come forward to help with the celebrations. The 100th anniversary had come at a time when the club was going through one of its regular financial wobbles, so the celebrations had been a...
13th April 2026
Partridge Boswell wins National Poetry Competition with 'The Gathering'
Partridge Boswell has won the Poetry Society’s £5,000 National Poetry Competition with his poem ‘The Gathering’. It was described by judges Denise Saul, Ian Duhig and Susannah Dickey as “an ever more expansive interrogation of language and morality … The speaker reflects on the tensions of personal...
2nd April 2026
