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Simon Armitage, Marsden rock star

by Julian Jordon

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Simon Armitage's poems hand carved into Pennine rocks form the outcome of Ilkley Literature Festival’s Stanza Stones poetry project, which launched in style in the Pennine watershed town of Marsden - home to a Write Out Loud poetry night - with an evening of poetry, dance and film. The session began with Simon reading his specially-commissioned sequence of poems on the theme of ‘wa...

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15th May 2012

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Write Out Loud Bolton on Sunday

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Charlotte Henson is guest poet at Write Out Loud Bolton on Sunday 20 May, at its new home of the Booklyn pub, in Green Lane, Bolton. Guest MC is Bill...

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16th May 2012 8:15 pm

One man and his shed: John Davies in Brighton

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A poet of whom it has been said, “what Wordsworth did for daffodils, John Davies does for sheds”, pops up in Hove on Friday 18 May in an e...

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16th May 2012 8:14 pm

Watch out - guerrilla poets are about

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Guerrilla poets will be roaming Gatehouse of Fleet on Saturday 26 May as part of the Dumfries and Galloway festival’s Big Lit Day in the town. T...

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16th May 2012 8:14 pm

Roll up for the Lamplight poetry slam

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There are still a few places left for would-be contestants for the Lamplight poetry slam at Stanley, Co Durham, presented by Leisureworks in associati...

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16th May 2012 8:14 pm

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That poetry podium feeling: Greenheart prize-winner Laura on a grand night out

by Laura Taylor

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Back in December 2011, I read a news article on WOL about a national poetry competition run in conjunction with the Leigh and Wigan Words literary fes...

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16th May 2012 8:13 pm

Live Poetry: An Integrated Approach to Poetry in Performance by Julia Novak

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This is a cracking book, especially for anyone wanting to understand this movement, this growing, UK-wide phenomenon of people getting together to rea...

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16th May 2012 8:12 pm

What a lot of nonsense: celebrating Edward Lear's 200th birthday

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An exhibition of illustrations has been launched at the Poetry Cafe in London in honour of Victorian nonsense writer and artist Edward Lear, and to ma...

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16th May 2012 8:12 pm

Kathleen Jamie at Bridlington poetry festival

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Kathleen Jamie, Paul Farley, Penelope Shuttle, and National Poetry Competition winner Allison McVety are among the poets appearing at the Bridlington...

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