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30th April 2010
The Poets’ Corner of Canada: Fredericton, New Brunswick
April is National Poetry Month in Canada.
The first weekend of April 2010, I “particpoeted” in a group poetry reading and launch of a new Fredericton book publisher and their trilingual chapbook Fredericton Green–verte (Side-by-Side Editions / Éditions Côte-à-Côte) on the Fredericton ...
30th April 2010
Job Opportunities
Several jobs have arisen with the Arvon Foundation, the organisation that runs residential creative writing courses.
They are looking for a temporary Centre Manager to cover maternity leave for...
30th April 2010
Bristol Spring Poetry Festival
The first ever Bristol Spring Poetry Festival aims to bring together the most entertaining and inspirationalaward-winning poets and performers from Bristol, the South-West, and the rest of the worl...
27th April 2010
This Saturday: Write to Speak presents ....
Would you like to take part in a bold poetry initiative to help capture the voice of Hull, and maybe perform your work at Hull Truck?
Write to speak presents ‘They f**k you up...’ - an ambitiou...
26th April 2010
Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival
Today sees the start of the annual literary festival in Stratford-upon-Avon. Running until Monday, 3rd May, this year’s festival promises a feast of author events, workshops, exhibitions, discussio...
25th April 2010
Creative Writing Courses with Julian Jordon
Julian Jordon, professional non-fiction writer, editor, scriptwriter, and performance and slam poet, is running another series of his popular Creative Writing and Scriptwriting courses at Stockport...
22nd April 2010
Creative Writing Course
Liverpool poet Tom George is running a 5 week creative writing course from Friday, 23rd April.
Explore the craft of writing in this brand new taster course, which aims to help you to discover n...
20th April 2010
Wotton-under-Edge Slam
Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire is looking for poets to take part in a slam at Under the Edge Arts on Saturday, 24th April at 8pm.
The evening will be hosted by Glenn Carmichael and Claire...
17th April 2010
PIGBABY
PIGBABY is a fantastic literary weekend party of poetry, short stories, and literary fun which will take place in the Sussex countryside during the weekend of 1st and 2nd May.
Saturday, 1st May...
17th April 2010
Igniting the Spark
A new series of Creative Writing workshops begins on Tuesday, 4th May at Dean Clough, in Halifax.
Join Gaia Holmes for a series of weekly writing workshops. The workshops will involve discussio...
14th April 2010
Poets Express in West Cork, Ireland
I’d love to say Poets Express was an idea born from mimicking other poetry nights and festivals in West Cork. You’d think it would be; after all Ireland, especially the West Cork area, is well know...
14th April 2010
Fire River Poets
They say there are more people who write poetry than read it. That’s quite possibly true, judging by the lack of spirit in much of the ‘amateur’ poetry I have seen, which betrays lack of study ...
14th April 2010
Writing the World
Cool it Schools – the global online climate change and environmental project for young people, have launched a new poetry competition to celebrate the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity.
W...
14th April 2010
Poésie sans Frontières
It’s fair to say that those who frequent Write Out Loud are a pretty diverse group of people; you can log on to WOL and read poetry and blogs, comments and opinions, from all sorts of people, about...
12th April 2010
MAG Poetry Competition 2010 - Deadline Approaches!
The MAG Poetry Prize is more than a writing competition – it’s a poetic e-democracy!
A genuinely anonymous peer review system is what sets this competition apart from all others – there are no ...
12th April 2010
'Making Poetry' Workshop Programme 2010
A brand new programme of poetry workshops begins this weekend in Birmingham city centre.
All workshops take place at the Shakespeare Memorial in Birmingham city centre, and run from 1.30 – 4.30...
12th April 2010
Fatima Wins Wigan 2010 Slam
A packed Tudor House witnessed an evening of simply excellent slam poetry last Thursday in a memorable competition.
The standard was so high that the judges reported that they had great difficu...
10th April 2010
Death Wish
This month's Jam has been put together using Ann Foxglove's "Delft" and Tomás Ó Cárthaigh's "Destruction Follows Creation That Follows..."
The text of the composite poem will be placed he...
8th April 2010
Liverpool Creative Writing Course
Poet, Tom George, is running a 5-week creative writing course from 23rd April.
It will run every Friday at Blackburne House, Liverpool from 9.30AM to 12.30PM.
* Explore the craft of Wr...
7th April 2010
Hadrons and Hustings
Crikey O'Reilly, is it really that time again? Well, frankly,no, it's that time for the first time ever due to the consecutive nature of time and the fact that its arrow only ever flies forward du...
6th April 2010
Bare assonance bear-faced chic
What I Do That's New is a series of articles in which poets share their trade secrets with the rest of us i.e. they describe aspects of what they do that is either innovative or just plain clever.
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4th April 2010
A to m bombs and a to z gems
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There are many, many more types of poetic expression than the personal lyric.
The lyric has become predominant at the present time because of political and ideological factors: we l...
2nd April 2010
Stuff the Distance Between Us
1st April 2010
New Venue for Poetica
Poetica – the Manchester based, mutual support group for work in progress, are having a change of location and a new start time.
They will still be meeting every fortnight on Wednesdays but fro...
1st April 2010
Carol Ann Duffy and Friends
In association with the Royal Exchange Theatre, the Manchester Writing School at MMU will be presenting three special evenings of poetry and music hosted by Poet Laureate – Carol Ann Duffy.
On ...
1st April 2010
Binalong Time
Poet, Novelist, Lawyer, Grazier, Traveller, Journalist, Editor, War Correspondent, Soldier, Sportsman and noted Horseman.
1st April 2010
Yeah There's Love if You Want it
Poetry's Biggest Secret's finally revealed. One poet dares to speak out but only if he gets to wear a mask. It's not to conceal his identity, he just derives pleasure from it. If other poets wer...
1st April 2010
Cryptic Poem 004 - The Pen
Okay folks. Another easy one this month. A straightforward rhyming couplet ‘sonnet’ on a subject close to all our hearts. The metre is uneven but ‘natural’, ie. the rhythm flows quite nicely. I’ve...
1st April 2010
Win a Trip of a Lifetime to Reykjavik
Write Out Loud are pleased to announce our first ever annual poetry competition. And for this inaugural competition, we have teamed up with Polar Foils Ltd, the foremost aerospace and domestic met...
1st April 2010
Go on Google
Take one pair of Googly eyes (those plastic eyes you get from craft shops, that, if you're such-way inclined may be snuggled down the back of the sofa, lost and looking for love, or at the bottom o...
1st April 2010
