National Gallery, Picturehouse, LSE: but who are the poets on the picket line?
While visiting the Poetry Book Fair in London’s Conway Hall last month, we bumped into poet Grim Chip, pictured, one of the driving forces behind Picket Line Poets. Write Out Loud is always interested in people who take poetry to unexpected places, so we asked Chip to tell us more about this collective, and what it is they do ...
Who are the Picket Line Poets?
A squad of poets who turn ...
31st October 2017
'The more painful and scary to write ... the more important it is to communicate' - Henry Normal
The writer, poet, TV and film producer Henry Normal – the man behind Mrs Merton, The Royle Family, Gavin and Stacey, The Mighty Boosh, and Alan Partridge, to name but a few - has launched his first new poetry collection in over 20 years, Raining Upwards. Earlier this year he also published Travellin...
12th October 2017
'Why Marsden is important to me': poet tells of inspirational backdrop
Poet and painter David Coldwell is launching his debut poetry collection, Flowers by the Road, on Wednesday 8 February at Marsden library. In an interview with Write Out Loud David, a regular reader a...
21st July 2017
The poetry of conflict: Clare Mulley on clashes that shaped England's history
London Laureate and poetry journalist Clare Mulley recently became the first poet in residence at the UK Battlefields Trust, and will be reading from the resulting collection at the Albion Beatnik boo...
20th April 2017
Poetry in the round: how Pitt, Pottinger and Purshouse plotted show at the pub
Wolverhampton poets Dave Pitt, Steve Pottinger, and Emma Purshouse have joined forces to create a new show - Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists - which will show at the Arena theatre in their home ...
10th April 2017
'I like to make people smile': Win Saha, still performing her poetry aged 93
Wolverhampton-based poet Win Saha is still writing and performing at the age of 93. In an interview with Emma Purshouse she tells of meeting Mae West and Paul Robeson, some poetry advice she received ...
29th March 2017
'The challenge is to throw everything we've got at it' - Jimmy Andrex
Wakefield’s Jimmy Andrex, who performs his poetry to the sound of a driving electonica beat, has a new album out. In an interview, he talks to Greg Freeman about Northern Beat Poetry, avoiding “obviou...
14th March 2017
'Amazed, and humbled': Steve Pottinger on Write Out Loud nearing its cash appeal target
Write Out Loud’s chief executive Steve Pottinger launched an appeal before Christmas for £1,000 to help with our running costs and to enable us to develop some new ideas. We’re close to hitting our ta...
1st February 2017
