Wenlock poetry festival says farewell with celebratory anthology
Organisers of Wenlock poetry festival in Shropshire, which hasn’t been staged for several years, have taken the decision that there won’t be another one. It's sad news for many, including here at Write Out Loud, where we have fond memories of reporting on and photographing Wenlock poetry festival weekends back in the day.
But its passing will be marked with a celebratory anthology, with the the...
29th December 2022
Peace poet Antony Owen reads Nagasaki poem at Westminster
Peace poet Antony Owen read a poem from his collection The Nagasaki Elder at the culmination of a meeting at the House of Lords that looked at how nuclear disarmament and peace education should be taught in schools.
A new survey from the Nuclear Education Trust shows that 93 per cent of teacher...
23rd December 2022
Brian Bilston's poetic guide to Christmas ... as we wish everyone happiness and health!
Earlier this year the ‘poet laureate of Twitter’, Brian Bilston, published an impressive new volume of poetry. Titled Days Like These, it contains “an alternative guide to the year in 366 poems” – and...
20th December 2022
Poetry festival in plea for support after losing Arts Council grant
Cheltenham poetry festival is appealing for fundraising support after failing in its bid for an Arts Council grant for the first time in 13 years. In a statement it said: “The feedback we have receive...
18th December 2022
From PhD thesis on everyday sexism to award-winning poetry collection: Kim Moore wins £10,000 Forward prize
Kim Moore has won this year’s £10,000 Forward prize for best collection for All The Men I Never Married, a book that first emerged from a PhD thesis in Poetry and Everyday Sexism at Manchester Metropo...
9th December 2022
Claire Askew's collection named Scottish Poetry Book of the Year
A poetry collection about witchcraft which traces historic atrocities, and celebrates the lives of those accused of witchcraft with empathy, tenderness and rage has won Scottish Poetry Book of the Yea...
9th December 2022
Jonathan Edwards wins £2,000 Troubadour prize
Award-winning poet Jonathan Edwards has won the £2,000 Troubadour prize with his poem ‘My Grandfather’s Car’. One of the two judges, Victoria Kennefick, said: “It is a glorious poem in both theme and ...
6th December 2022
New performed poem category at Forwards next year 'to rebalance historical inequities'
There was an intriguing moment last week at the Forward prizes ceremony at Contact theatre in Manchester, when organisers revealed that next year there will be a new prize category - Best Single Poem,...
6th December 2022
