Spoken word artist's book seeks to empower South Asian women
A book by a spoken word artist from east London that has been described as both a memoir and a guide to empowerment for South Asian women and girls has been featured on Channel 4 News.
Brown Girl Like Me by Jaspreet Kaur includes poems and interviews and looks at issues such as the media, the workplace, the home, education, mental health, culture, confidence and the body.
Topics focus on suc...
28th February 2022
Zephaniah warns against plan to cut access to student loans
The poet and academic Benjamin Zephaniah, who a professor of creative writing at Brunel University, has warned against government proposals that would see anyone failing GCSE maths and English barred from securing higher education loans in England.
The plan to link student loans eligibility to GC...
27th February 2022
Wordsworth's 'Daffodils' manuscript goes on show at Grasmere
A manuscript of the William Wordsworth poem most associated with the Lake District has returned to Cumbria. A handwritten copy of ‘I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud’ has gone on show at Wordsworth Grasmere...
22nd February 2022
Stories collected by Poet on the Street reveal another side of city
A book that maps a poetic history of Winchester and was brought about by Winchester poetry festival’s Poet on the Street, Jonny Fluffypunk, has been published.
Winchester: A Poetic History in Incon...
16th February 2022
Margate to mark centenary of TS Eliot's The Waste Land
In a seaside shelter at Margate in 1921, TS Eliot wrote the lines: "On Margate Sands./I can connect/Nothing with nothing./The broken fingernails of dirty hands./My people humble people who expect/Noth...
10th February 2022
Selima Hill shortlisted for £30,000 Rathbones Folio prize
Selima Hill is the only poet to have been shortlisted for this year's £30,000 Rathbones Folio prize, an award which is open to all works of literature written in English, it has been revealed. She joi...
10th February 2022
Where is Innocent Bahati? Worldwide concern over Rwandan poet missing for a year
It is a year since popular Rwandan poet Innocent Bahati disappeared in suspicious circumstances, prompting over 100 writers, including Margaret Atwood, Ben Okri, and JM Coetzee, to call on Rwandan pre...
7th February 2022
'Joyous and universal': Hannah Lowe wins £30,000 Costa book of the year for 'The Kids'
Hannah Lowe has won the overall £30,000 Costa book of the year award for her poetry collection The Kids, it was announced on Tuesday night. The chair of judges, BBC news journalist Reeta Chakrabarti, ...
3rd February 2022
Long and winding road, or ‘motorway of Wales’? Bilingual anthology will celebrate the A470
A bilingual English-Welsh poetry anthology celebrating a road that runs the length of Wales, from Llandudno to Cardiff, will be released on St David’s Day by independent publisher Arachne Press. A470:...
1st February 2022
Clanchy finds new publisher for book revised after 'racism' row
Swift Press will publish Kate Clanchy’s Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, along with her prose backlist, after Pan Macmillan parted company with the poet and author, The Bookseller has repor...
1st February 2022
