Write Out Loud looks back … at the early days of lockdown. How did poets cope?
As part of our 20-year anniversary celebrations, Write Out Loud will be looking back at significant moments for us and the wider poetry world over the last two decades. They don’t come much more significant than Covid and lockdown. When lockdown was announced five years ago we had to move quickly and clear all the live gig listings from our home page. Our technical wizard Paul Emberson did all that – and rejigged the home page...
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Bloodaxe … what an arresting name for a poetry publisher. I may have first come across Neil Astley’s name when my wife gave me the second anthology in...
12th Apr 2025 10:17 am
“This, you must know, is the growlery. When I am out of humour, I come and growl here.” - Charles Dickens, Bleak House
So you’ve been working your ...
29th Apr 2025 8:33 pm
A momentous occasion has taken place in the poetry realm, an event rarer than hen’s teeth. Write Out Loud ‘old timer’ Graham Sherwood took to the stag...
28th Apr 2025 8:13 am
There is plenty of poetry among the literary events at Hexham book festival in Northumberland next month. On Thursday 8 May Pam Ayres will be talking ...
24th Apr 2025 8:23 am
A campaign has been launched to preserve William Wordsworth’s family home at Rydal Mount in the Lake District, as a site of literary heritage. The poe...
27th Apr 2025 11:11 pm
Maggie Harris was born in Guyana and now lives in Broadstairs, Kent. She has won the Guyana Prize for Literature, was regional winner of the Commonwea...
27th Mar 2025 11:05 pm
This collection of one hundred short poems is inspired by the life of Carmelite nun Thérèse of Lisieux, who died in 1897 aged just 24. In her elegant ...
11th Apr 2025 10:14 pm
Victoria Gatehouse is a zoologist, award-winning poet and children’s writer. Her poetry has been broadcast on BBC radio and published in several leadi...
27th Apr 2025 11:13 pm
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