There: Clare Morris and Nigel Bird, TQ
The poet and writer Clare Morris works in collaboration with the artist Nigel Bird in this engaging and interesting pamphlet. Their works not only interweave and enhance each other but also aim to support Wessex Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre in Warminster that has helped Nigel Bird to improve his condition and continue with his work.
They focus on important moments that are “there” - moment...
30th April 2022
Deadline nears for £600 Ver Poets competition
John McCullough will be judging the £600 Ver Poets open competition. The deadline is 30 April. More details
PHOTOGRAPH: STEPHEN WELLS
28th April 2022
Elgar Country: Peter Sutton, Black Pear Press
Poet, playwright and translator Peter Sutton is a frequent reader at poetry events in the West Midlands and beyond. His alliterative verse translation of Langland’s 7,500-line medieval poem Piers Plow...
28th April 2022
They Race Me In The Streets: Shaun Fallows, Lulu
The title poem of Shaun Fallows’s second collection is uplifting and full of love. It tells how Fallows, a wheelchair user who has cerebral palsy, is surrounded by youngsters in the street who admire ...
28th April 2022
Young Charlotte Brontë's little book of rhymes returns to Haworth
A book smaller than a playing card and containing 10 unpublished poems, is returning home to the West Yorkshire parsonage where it was written in 1829 by the 13-year-old Charlotte Brontë.
The book,...
27th April 2022
Deadline nears for £600 Ware poetry competition
Jonathan Edwards will be judging the £600 Ware open poetry competition. The deadline is 30 April. More details
27th April 2022
Tim Taylor launches Life Times anthology at Marsden Mechanics
Marsden, Yorkshire, is a hotbed of poetic endeavour – much of it supported or launched by Write Out Loud since our setting up there in 2010 - including a long-running monthly poetry night, Marsden the...
27th April 2022
Poet's 'rite of passage' after book turns up in Oxfam shop
A poet and regular blogger has posted an account of his feelings, after being informed that a signed copy of one of his poetry books had turned up in a charity shop.
Matthew Stewart, whose blog is ...
19th April 2022
Chintz: Leela Soma, Dreich
This pamphlet by Leela Soma breaks new ground with its multicultural layers, at the threshold between India and Scotland. The two cultures sometimes merge but at other times clash. Soma’s literary wor...
15th April 2022
'A daring, funny, inventive writer': fellow poets pay tribute to Grant Tarbard
Many tributes have been paid on social media to the poet and editor Grant Tarbard, who has died suddenly at the age of 43, after suffering from ill health throughout his life.
The poet George Szirt...
11th April 2022
The Columbus Memoirs and Other Tales: Nick Toczek and Signia Alpha, Mutiny 2000
This 120-page book contains the 19 lyrics/poems of the three albums released by the poet Nick Toczek with the band Signia Alpha led by Matt Webster. The first half is concerned with the words and is w...
9th April 2022
Racing in the streets: disabled Wigan poet Shaun Fallows launches second collection
Wigan poet and disabled activist Shaun Fallows will be launching his second poetry collection, They Race Me in the Streets, at the Museum of Wigan Life on Wednesday 20 April from 7-9pm.
Shaun, a wh...
7th April 2022
Festival starring John Cooper Clarke and Lemn Sissay offers stage slots to grassroots poetry groups
A poetry festival planned later this year is offering grassroots poets the chance to take part alongside headline stars. Dr John Cooper Clarke, Lemn Sissay, Henry Normal, and Joelle Taylor have alread...
7th April 2022
Anthology of 100 classic poems is collaboration between poet Brendan Kennelly and editor Neil Astley
Poetry publisher Bloodaxe is launching a new anthology, in which editor Neil Astley has teamed up with the late Irish poet Brendan Kennelly to produce The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me – a selection of ...
5th April 2022
Eric Yip, a 19-year-old student from Hong Kong, is the youngest winner of National Poetry Competition
A 19-year-old Cambridge undergraduate is the youngest ever winner of the Poetry Society's National Poetry Competition, it was announced on Thursday night. Eric Yip won £5,000 with his poem ‘Fricatives...
5th April 2022
From New York, to Chennai, to Bolton: George Wallace on global poetry networks, Walt Whitman, and a NYC anthology
George Wallace (pictured) is writer in residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace, on Long Island, New York; first poet laureate of Suffolk County, Long Island; and author of 38 poetry books and chapboo...
5th April 2022
Smudge: Dominic James, Littoral Press
The title poem of Smudge by Dominic James refers to the mark left on glass when a face is pressed against a window. It’s an image of distance, even loneliness, and perhaps a keynote image for this col...
4th April 2022
Poet's campaign about men and suicide screened at football match
A poet whose latest collection focuses on men and suicide appeared on a video at a football match on Saturday afternoon. Coventry poet Antony Owen’s latest collection is called The Battle, and he appe...
2nd April 2022
