Write Out Loud at Marsden Mechanics tonight
Weather is the theme for Write Out Loud Marsden on Wednesday 21 February at Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street. This month the open-floor poetry night is not in the library, which is being refurbished, but in the meeting room opposite the toilets. Co-ordinator John Ling says: “Bring your weather poems, real or metaphorical, and dazzle or drown us in fine words.” Entry is £2, and it starts at 7.30...
21st February 2018
Write Out Loud Sale at the Waterside tonight
Alicia Fernandez and Debz Butler are the guest poets at Write Out Loud Sale at the Waterside arts centre, Sale on Tuesday 20 February. Entry is £3/£2 to this open mic poetry night, which starts at 7.30pm. More details and Map
20th February 2018
Write Out Loud Woking at the New Inn tonight
Write Out Loud Woking returns to the New Inn at Send, near Woking, on Monday 19 February for another night of free, open-mic poetry compered by Greg Freeman and Rodney Wood. Sign up from 7.30 onwards ...
19th February 2018
Poetry School moving to historic building in Docklands
The Poetry School is moving its offices and London classrooms from Lambeth Walk to a new base in London’s Docklands. From the beginning of its summer term, the Poetry School will be occupying a Grade ...
19th February 2018
Write Out Loud at Bolton Socialist Club tonight
There’s open mic poetry at Write Out Loud Bolton at Bolton Socialist club on Sunday 18 February. It’s hosted by Jeffarama! and Gordon Zola, and entry is £1 plus raffle. Get there from 7.30 for 8pm sta...
18th February 2018
Poetry of borders: George Szirtes to read new poems at Before and After Schengen event
This poem below, ‘Somport’ by Hungarian-born poet George Szirtes, is one of a number of new, unpublished poems that he will be reading in London at Before and After Schengen, an event inspired by Igna...
13th February 2018
Write Out Loud at Stockport art gallery tonight
Stockport Write Out Loud meets on Monday 12 February at Stockport art gallery for a readaround of poetry. Each month contributions from those present are stitched together into a collage poem. You can...
12th February 2018
Poet who found his feet on new turf stages charity gig to say thank-you
A poet who relocated to Worcestershire from the Outer Hebrides is saying thank-you to his adopted area by staging a charity poetry night. The bill for Verse? Aye! includes Dominic Berry, Jackie Hagan,...
10th February 2018
Next stop Wigan? Write Out Loud at the Old Courts tonight
Poems about love, lost love, or nothing to do with love at all are on the agenda at a pre-Valentine’s day Write Out Loud Wigan at the Old Courts on Thursday 8 February. Entry is free to this open mic ...
8th February 2018
Helen Dunmore wins Costa book award
Helen Dunmore’s final poetry collection Inside the Wave has won the overall £30,000 Costa book award, it was announced on Tuesday. The poems within Inside The Wave are described by publisher Bloodaxe ...
8th February 2018
#MeToo movement leads to women's poetry anthology
A wave of anger and solidarity among women worldwide that began with the Hollywood revelations about film producer Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual harassment and assaults have led to an anthology of...
5th February 2018
