New Zealand poet Fleur Adcock dies aged 90
The New Zealand poet Fleur Adcock, who celebrated her 90th birthday in February with the publication of her Collected Poems, has died in the North London Hospice in Finchley, after a short illness.
Fleur Adcock was born in Papakura, New Zealand in 1934, but lived much of her life in England, including during the second world war. A number of poems recounting that time were published in the maga...
17th October 2024
Deadline nearing for National Poetry Competition entries
The deadline is nearing for the Poetry Society's £5,000 2024 National Poetry Competition entries. This year's judges are Stephen Sexton, Romalyn Ante and John McAuliffe, and the deadline for entries is 31 October. More details here
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17th October 2024
The Warfield Poems: Patrick B Osada
Patrick Osada’s collection The Warfield Poems is a lament for his village in Berkshire that over the last few decades has largely been swallowed up by the “tentacles” of housing development reaching o...
17th October 2024
Small and Necessary Lives: Ron Scowcroft, Wayleave
Originally from Greater Manchester, Ron Scowcroft has lived in the Lancaster area since 1985. After a career in teaching and academic research, he began writing poetry in 2006. He is the author of two...
17th October 2024
Collected Poems: Fleur Adcock, Bloodaxe
Weighing in at over 600 pages, this is a substantial volume. Too big to be delivered through the letterbox, but handed in at the front door, it has given me an opportunity to renew my acquaintance wit...
13th October 2024
Battery Rocks: Katrina Naomi, Seren
Katrina Naomi grew up close to the sea in Margate and now lives in Cornwall, where she combines her love of writing with sea swimming and a passion for wild places. Her poetry collections have won Aut...
13th October 2024
Victoria Chang wins 2024 Forward prize for best collection
The American poet Victoria Chang has won the £10,000 Forward prize for best collection with ‘With My Back to the World’ (Corsair), which engages with the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin, the ce...
11th October 2024
'Now I have the courage to show everyone my voice': meet this year's Foyle Young Poets award winners
“It means the world to me to win the Foyle Young Poets award. I have been writing for a very long time – privately, always hunched over the family computer, letting my ideas meander onto the document,...
9th October 2024
Your chance to take the stage: Write Out Loud's poetry jam at Marsden jazz festival!
Write Out Loud returns to Marsden in West Yorkshire for its popular annual open mic poetry jam at the jazz festival on Sunday morning 13 October 11am-1pm. This year we are delighted to have secured a ...
8th October 2024
Jacqueline Saphra to judge Waltham Forest competition
Jacqueline Saphra will be judging the £400 Waltham Forest poetry competition on the theme of Friendship. There is also an extra prize for the funniest poem. The deadline is 14 October. More details
3rd October 2024
Remembering and celebrating a tree that broke hearts
“It was the perfect tree, in the perfect place.” So said poet, performer, writer and broadcaster Kate Fox, in launching a book of poems at Waterstones in Newcastle to commemorate the shocking felling ...
3rd October 2024
Posthumous collection by young poet is on TS Eliot prize shortlist
A posthumous collection by a young poet who was found dead after a festival last year is among the shortlisted books for this year’s £25,000 TS Eliot prize. Adam, which is Gboyega Odubanjo’s debut ful...
3rd October 2024
Record attempt, online open-mics, the poetry of a town: it's National Poetry Day!
The theme of this year’s National Poetry Day is ‘counting’ – and here’s just a taste of some of the events today. One event is an attempt to break the world record for the largest poetry lesson, colla...
2nd October 2024
Poetry student jailed for throwing soup over Van Gogh painting
A young poet and climate activist who took part in a Just Stop Oil protest which involved throwing soup over Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London in 2022 has been jailed.
...1st October 2024
