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Poetry aid: Bradford's Barbara Howerska raises £150 for food bank

Bradford poet Barbara Hoswerska has raised £150 for a local food bank after staging a reading from her recent poetry collection, and donating all the money raised from sales of her book. 

She said: "It was a wonderful evening. I had lots of fun and read 15 poems." Barbara's collection is titled The Widow Witch, and is published by Half Moon Press. The evening was on Wednesday 15 December at the...

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Feeling down at Christmas? Let Liz Berry's seasonal poem lift the heart

Christmas? Bah, Covid! Again! It's easy to feel downbeat about December 2021. Just as December 2020 turned out to be not as we'd hoped, with families locked down or separated, December 2021 has suddenly taken a turn for the worse. The year started so promisingly, with the youngest poet to read at a ...

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Light Makes It Easy: Rosie Jackson, Indigo Dreams

The 2020-21 global pandemic and lockdown in particular form the background to this pamphlet collection of topical poems by teacher and prize-winning poet Rosie Jackson.

Jackson’s poem ‘Because Thes...

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'Pioneering voice' awarded Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Guyanese poet Grace Nichols has been awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, it has been announced. Nichols moved to Britain in 1977. Her first poetry collection, I Is a Long-Memoried Woman, was pu...

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Worcestershire laureate's new role as hospital trust poet in residence

Worcestershire's poet laureate Ade Couper has a new role - as the first poet in residence of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. As the Worcester News reported, his task will be to explore how p...

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Manuscript of Emily Brontë's poems saved for the nation in £15m library acquisition

The Friends of the National Libraries (FNL) has successfully raised over £15 million to acquire the Honresfield Library for the nation, it was announced today. The collection includes manuscripts by t...

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Chance of anthology publication in Plath competition

The deadline is 31 December to enter poems for the £1,000 Sylvia Plath prize, to mark the 90th anniversary of her birth. Winners will receive cash prizes and publication in After Sylvia, a celebratory...

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Be Feared: Jane Burn, Nine Arches Press

The poems featured in Be Feared trace a challenging and at times fearful journey towards self-awareness and liberation. The poet is the hero, or better the heroine, of this journey that is a relentles...

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The gift of poetry: pharmacy swept off its feet with orders after mention in Christmas gift guide

The Poetry Pharmacy in Shropshire, which offers “poetry on prescription – an alternative therapy for your emotional ailments”, has been swamped with orders after appearing in a national newspaper Chri...

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Poet donates copies of book to raise cash for food bank at Christmas

A poet is giving away copies of her poetry collection to raise money for a local food bank at Christmas. Barbara Howerska will be giving a poetry reading at the Exchange Craft Beer House in Bradford o...

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'I dislike the idea of being a religious poet': former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams

The former Archbishop of Canterbury and poet, Rowan Williams, will be discussing his new Collected Poems with fellow Carcanet poet Rachel Mann at an online launch event on Wednesday 15 December.

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Before Them, We: new poetry anthology digs deep into African family histories

A fascinating new poetry anthology celebrating intergenerational African family histories will be published next month. Poets such as Inua Ellams, Nick Makoha, Yomi Sode and many more are included in ...

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Unearthed: Ruth Taaffe, Dempsey & Windle

Ruth Taaffe, who is from Manchester, has taught in the UK and in international schools for over 25 years. She holds a Masters degree in creative writing from Lancaster University and her poems about h...

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Poet’s tribute to ‘Fourth King’ Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square

The Poetry Society has unveiled a new poem, ‘The Fourth King’ by Sinéad Morrissey, in welcoming  the Norwegian Christmas tree to Trafalgar Square. Every year, the Poetry Society commissions a poet to ...

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The Bicycles of Ice and Salt: Jean Atkin, Indigo Dreams

This pamphlet of poems concerns two long bicycle journeys in Europe, one with a female companion, and a later one with a male, undertaken in the 1980s. Jean Atkin has said about the journeys in a blog...

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Nocturnes: David Olsen, Dempsey & Windle

David Olsen is the American author of four full-length poetry collections published in UK and four poetry chapbooks from the US. He is also a playwright, a writer of short fiction, and former freelanc...

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Pascale Petit to judge Shepton Mallet poetry competition

Pascale Petit will be judging the Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival poetry competition on the theme of ‘Hope in Nature’. First prize is £200, and the deadline is 9 January 2022. More details

 

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Competitions

'The coast affirms that lines are always changing'

For Kayleb Rae Candrilli, as for many of us, the dramatic change of setting - in their case, the arrival at the coast facing the grand Atlantic - can shift our sense of being in significant ways. For ...

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