And now for something completely different ... try writing a nonet for World Poetry Day!
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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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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Comedy performance poet Robert Garnham has published a collection of essays, covering topics ranging from advice on “how not to do the Edinburgh Fring...
3rd Mar 2024 2:35 pm
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...
16th Mar 2024 11:05 pm
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...
14th Mar 2024 8:16 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...
29th Feb 2024 12:00 am
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...
1st Mar 2024 12:00 am
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...
5th Feb 2024 3:46 pm
Rhianna Levi began her Worcestershire Poet Laureate tenure in June 2022. During this time she has worked closely with the Worcestershire Acute Hospita...
6th Feb 2024 12:00 am
Mark Totterdell is the author of three previous collections of poetry: This Patter of Traces (Oversteps Books, 2014), Mapping (Indigo Dreams, 2018) an...
14th Mar 2024 10:48 pm
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