Following my attendance at his show Full Tartan Jacket (see review below) I spoke to Elvis McGonagall about what he was doing, and why. “The aim of th...

African American Poetry 1760 - 1900

There are many avenues to travel down in search of poetry. The War Poets of both world wars produced some of th...

Winchester celebrates National Poetry Day and the launch of the third Winchester Poetry Festival with a specially commissioned poem by the award-winni...

As the world’s largest arts festival rumbles and ricochets onwards and upwards through to the end of August, there’s still time to visit Scotland’s ca...

I first met Tristram Fane Saunders at a poetry gig in Cambridge and always thought he seemed pretty cool. When he was named a winner in the 2017/18 Ne...

In the final part of a series of articles exploring the idea of omphalos, or the origin of the poet’s imagination, I asked poet and academic Gail Asht...

The Moth Poetry Prize is one of the most prestigious – and lucrative – awards in the world for a single unpublished poem, with an overall prize of €10...

Raine Geoghegan was born in the Welsh valleys, and is half Romany with Welsh and Irish ancestry. She holds an MA in creative writing from the Universi...