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We’re approaching World Poetry Day, on Thursday 21 March. ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Giants’ is this year’s theme chosen by Unesco, which set up World Poetry Day in 1999 with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing opportunity for endangered languages to be heard. It is seen as an occasion to honour poets, revive oral traditions of poetry recitals and promote the reading, writing ...

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The National Poetry Centre planned for Leeds, which was announced by Simon Armitage as one of his ambitions as poet laureate, has received a £5 millio...

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Liz Berry has won the £30,000 Writers’ prize, formerly known as the Rathbones Folio prize, for her collection The Home Child, a novel in verse inspire...

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A new anthology about Gaza which includes poems by two poets who have been killed during intensive Israeli attacks on the Palestinian enclave - in res...

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Write Out Loud wants to say a huge thank-you to all those supporters who have given donations or set up subscriptions to help us cover the costs of ru...

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Comedy performance poet Robert Garnham has published a collection of essays, covering topics ranging from advice on “how not to do the Edinburgh Fring...

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An episode of Rick Stein’s Cornwall recently repeated on BBC2 features the Cornish poet Charles Causley, who spent his life in the Cornish border town...

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The Foyle Young Poets of the Year award is once again open for entries. It’s organised by the Poetry Society and supported by the Foyle Foundation, an...

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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...

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An open poetry competition, Carry Us Home, to celebrate 200 years of the RNLI is being run by Sheringham lifeboat station in Norfolk. The judge is Mon...

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Far too often you come across volumes of poets talking about their craft, and you are left none the wiser. Rather than dispelling the mystique, they m...

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Rhianna Levi began her Worcestershire Poet Laureate tenure in June 2022. During this time she has worked closely with the Worcestershire Acute Hospita...

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Mark Totterdell is the author of three previous collections of poetry: This Patter of Traces (Oversteps Books, 2014), Mapping (Indigo Dreams, 2018) an...

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