Sandeep Parmar and BAME poetry critics
Ledbury Poetry Festival in collaboration with award-winning poets Sandeep Parmar and Sarah Howe recently founded The BAME Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critics scheme to encourage diversity in poetry reviewing culture and support emerging critical voices. As recent statistics show reviewers and poets of colour are hugely underrepresented in broadsheet and journal publications, with just 4.3% reviewers a...
30th April 2018
Elvis McGonagall and Susan Evans at literary festival in Woking
Two performance poetry stars will be appearing at a literary festival in Woking on Saturday 28 April. Elvis McGonagall, who has had two series of his sitcom broadcast on BBC Radio 4, and Susan Evans, shortlisted for best spoken word performer in this year’s Saboteur awards, will be taking part in th...
26th April 2018
Shortlists announced for Saboteur awards
After whittling down 5,000 nominations from across the globe - more than double than last year - the shortlists for this year’s Saboteur awards have finally been announced. Featuring strong LGBT, art...
25th April 2018
Winchester 2018 Poetry Festival: Line-up and Programme announced
The Winchester Poetry Festival has become a major player in the poetry world with a reputation for innovative programming and for sponsoring and nurturing new talent. This year’s Festival takes place...
23rd April 2018
Momtaza Mehri is new London Young People's Laureate
Momtaza Mehri has been named as London’s new Young People’s Laureate. Momtaza, aged 24, will work with the London writers network Spread the Word for a year on youth-focused residencies across the ca...
21st April 2018
From Martha’s Vineyard to Swansea with Anne-Marie Fyfe
London-based poet Anne-Marie Fyfe, organiser of the Coffee-House Poetry and Open Mic at the Troubadour on Old Brompton Road and former Chair of the UK’s Poetry Society is off on her travels once again...
20th April 2018
How do you do? Write Out Loud at Marsden tonight
The theme at Marsden Write Out Loud at Marsden Mechanics, Peel Street on Wednesday 18 April is manners. Bring poems on this subject, or on any other subject at all, to this open-floor poetry night sta...
18th April 2018
Write Out Loud Sale at the Waterside tonight
Kate Garrett and Angi Holden are the guest poets at Write Out Loud Sale on Tuesday 17 April at the Waterside arts centre, Sale. Entry is £3/£2 to this open mic poetry night, which starts at 7.30pm. Mo...
17th April 2018
Write Out Loud Woking at the New Inn tonight
Write Out Loud Woking meets at the New Inn, Send, near Woking on Monday 16 April for another night of open mic poetry with hosts Greg Freeman and Rodney Wood. Entry is free. Sign up from 7.30pm for 8p...
16th April 2018
