‘I’m always thinking of lines and looking for inspiration’: learning lessons from youngsters in school’s poetry group
Most readers coming to this site will be interested in the future of poetry in changing times. The Bookseller announced in December 2023 that poetry was “on course for a record year”, partly due to an increasing number of independent presses (despite their rather precarious existence) and partly as a result of the burgeoning Instagram and TikTok outlets. These do allow great spontaneity, although on this site recently, Bloodax...
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The highly successful Bloodaxe Books publisher Neil Astley has highlighted the changing nature of poetry book sales as a result of the internet, and t...
8th Jul 2024 11:08 am
The 2024 Forward prizes shortlists have been announced. The contenders for the £10,000 Forward best collection prize are: Rachael Allen’s God Complex ...
18th Jul 2024 8:21 pm
Write Out Loud’s Graham Sherwood is one of 16 local writers in Milton Keynes whose work has been included in Dreams for Lammas, a Milton Keynes litera...
19th Jul 2024 8:02 pm
Important news! You can now make direct donations to Write Out Loud, so more of your contribution is retained by our community interest company. Thank...
7th Apr 2024 11:03 am
Meet The Writing Is On The Wall – a poet who ‘self-publishes’ by “bothering walls” with his poems. He came to Write Out Loud’s notice recently when he...
29th Jun 2024 10:11 am
What are we doing to the planet? What is technology doing to us? These are the common themes, according to the poet herself, within the new collection...
25th Jun 2024 10:32 am
Here’s the second – or is it the third? – in our occasional series on poetic forms, in which we invite you to look at and maybe have a go yourself. Th...
15th Jun 2024 4:57 pm
The Poetry Society's £5,000 2024 National Poetry Competition is now open for entries. This year's judges are Stephen Sexton, Romalyn Ante and John McA...
19th Jun 2024 10:55 pm
Fran Lock and Alan Morrison will be judging the 2024 Bread and Roses poetry award organised by Culture Matters. There will be five prizes of £100 each...
19th Jun 2024 10:56 pm
Jacqueline Saphra will be judging the £400 Waltham Forest poetry competition on the theme of Friendship. There is also an extra prize for the funniest...
26th Jul 2024 9:26 pm
Author, poet, editor, librettist and literary critic Grahame Davies was brought up in the former coal-mining village of Coedpoeth, near Wrexham, in no...
7th Jul 2024 12:00 am
It is 1961. Aldous Huxley and his wife Laura flee the Hollywood Hills as a devastating wildfire rips through one of the most affluent areas of Los Ang...
17th Jul 2024 12:00 am
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