Seaton Delaval Hall in Northumberland is a ruined mansion with a rich history. The Delavals came over with the Normans, but it wasn’t until the 18th century that the current mansion was erected, designed by Vanbrugh.

The Delaval family were notorious for their theatricals, wild parties and practi...

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A poem described by the judges as “extraordinary and thought-provoking … whose paradoxical lyricism in the account of an abduction demands reading and re-reading”  has won first prize in this year’s N...

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The poet laureate, Simon Armitage, has launched a collection in celebration of spring, and in collaboration with the National Trust. He has spent a year travelling the country visiting gardens and rem...

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Running from 9th to 25 March, France is currently holding its 25th annual Printemps des Poètes, or Springtime Poetry Festival, a truly nationwide celebration of poetry and poets, in venues ranging fro...

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We didn't know if it would take off ... but poets on Write Out Loud did us proud in taking up our challenge to write a nonet to mark World Poetry Day! We thought we’d invite our poets to try their han...

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Described by Allen Ginsberg (writer of Howl, the poem that changed US obscenity laws) as “the most integrated place on the planet”, the Nuyorican Poets Café closed its doors in November 2023 for a $24...

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Described by Allen Ginsberg (writer of Howl, the poem that changed US obscenity laws) as “the most integrated place on the planet”, the Nuyorican Poets Café closed its doors in November 2023 for a $24...

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Described by Allen Ginsberg (writer of Howl, the poem that changed US obscenity laws) as “the most integrated place on the planet”, the Nuyorican Poets Café closed its doors in November 2023 for a $24...

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An episode of Rick Stein’s Cornwall recently repeated on BBC2 features the Cornish poet Charles Causley, who spent his life in the Cornish border town of Launceston. Stein talks to the Cornish writer ...

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The National Poetry Centre planned for Leeds, which was announced by Simon Armitage as one of his ambitions as poet laureate, has received a £5 million funding boost from the government’s Department f...

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Mark Totterdell is the author of three previous collections of poetry: This Patter of Traces (Oversteps Books, 2014), Mapping (Indigo Dreams, 2018) and Mollusc (The High Window, 2021). His poems have ...

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Write Out Loud Wigan is at the Old Courts, Crawford Street, Wigan on Thursday 14 March from 7.30pm. More details

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Liz Berry has won the £30,000 Writers’ prize, formerly known as the Rathbones Folio prize, for her collection The Home Child, a novel in verse inspired by the poet’s great-aunt, who at the age of 12 w...

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A new anthology about Gaza which includes poems by two poets who have been killed during intensive Israeli attacks on the Palestinian enclave - in response to atrocities committed by the Palestinian g...

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The National Poetry Centre planned for Leeds, which was announced by Simon Armitage as one of his ambitions as poet laureate, has received a £5 million funding boost from the government’s Department f...

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The hugely successful US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is related to the renowned 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson, a genealogy company has revealed.  The link, reported in the Guardian, i...

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Norbert Hirschhorn is a public health physician, commended in 1993 by President Bill Clinton as an American Health Hero in the tradition of physician-poets. More recently he was the recipient of the P...

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Comedy performance poet Robert Garnham has published a collection of essays, covering topics ranging from advice on “how not to do the Edinburgh Fringe”, fishing for poetic material off the coast of D...

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A poet who has regularly and untiringly posted poems about the war in Ukraine on Write Out Loud since Russia’s invasion has produced a new selection of his work to mark the second anniversary of Vladi...

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An open poetry competition, Carry Us Home, to celebrate 200 years of the RNLI is being run by Sheringham lifeboat station in Norfolk. The judge is Moniza Alvi, and the deadline is 5 April. Poems are i...

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