Season's greetings! Thank you for all your poetry throughout 2024!
Season's greetings from everyone at Write Out Loud to all our users! We just wanted to say how grateful we are to all our Write Out Loud members and visitors. Thank you for all your poetry throughout 2024 and your submissions for the nonet poems and advent calendar. We’ve read so much moving, thoughtful, inspiring, motivating and moody poetry this year and we’ve loved seeing everyone contributing, commenting and feeding back o...
News and Opinion
The Hungarian-born poet George Szirtes, who came to England as a boy with his family following the Hungarian uprising and Soviet clampdown in 1956, is...
17th Dec 2024 3:40 pm
Singer-songwriter Katherine Priddy, pictured, has released a new single, a winter-themed song written in collaboration with the poet laureate, Simon A...
22nd Dec 2024 6:49 pm
This year’s Poetry Society poem to celebrate welcoming the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree was performed by three pupils from the St Vincent’s Catholi...
6th Dec 2024 3:52 pm
APOLOGIES to those users - many of us, in fact - who have found it slow going at times on the Write Out Loud website this month. We are working on the...
24th Dec 2024 12:33 pm
A native Gaelic speaker from the isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides has been appointed as Scotland’s new Makar, its national poet. Academic, writer a...
6th Dec 2024 2:30 pm
BBC Radio’s The Verb will be presenting a special programme looking back at this year’s Morecambe poetry festival at 9pm on Friday 3 January. The prog...
14th Dec 2024 9:58 pm
A tribute to Benjamin Zephaniah was screened on BBC4 on Saturday night to mark the first anniversary of the poet’s death. Dread Poets Society, a high-...
15th Dec 2024 1:56 pm
Roger McGough will be judging the £250 Arts Richmond poetry prize. The theme is 'Changes'. The deadline is 17 January 2025. More details
17th Dec 2024 3:21 pm
Kit Fan will be judging the £1,000 Kent & Sussex Poetry Society open poetry competition. The deadline is 31 January 2025. More details
30th Nov 2024 12:00 am
Wendy Pratt will be judging the £300 Shepton Mallet Snowdrop festival poetry competition. The theme is 'Treasures of nature'. The deadline is 6 Januar...
30th Nov 2024 12:00 am
These are poems that you have to take time to, make time to read. I began by leafing through this Bloodaxe anthology – subtitled “Nourishing Poems of ...
26th Nov 2024 12:56 pm
An important aspect of the poetry of Audrey Ardern-Jones is its humanity. Perhaps it is a failure of mine, to perceive it that often in the poems of o...
3rd Dec 2024 3:52 pm
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