Write Out Loud's poetry jam: an eye-opener for a reviewer
There are poets who win the glittering prizes, and there are poets who head out of the door before the end of gigs if events don’t turn out to their liking. And then there are the poets who have no dreams of greatness, who do it for the love, and the sense of community they gain from it. Such a wealth of poets were gathered at the Railway on Sunday morning for Write Out Loud’s Poetry Jam at Mar...
25th October 2013
Shades of the Beats: a poetry-jazz happening in the heart of the Pennines
I’d like to think that the spirits of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady were in the vicinity of the Pennine village of Marsden on Sunday afternoon. They were certainly invoked by a number of poets of a certain age at The Beat is Back, a triumphant fusion of verse and improvised jazz a...
25th October 2013
