It's happened again: new poet unmasked as serial plagiarist
The Guardian has reported on what has been the talk of the online poetry community: that there is a new serial plagiarist in our midst. Following the Christian Ward scandal earlier this year, the new culprit is a poet called David R Morgan, who has admitted to the plagiarism, and told the Guardian he was "so very ashamed and regret hurting people by my stupidity". He said he was "truly sorry to...
31st May 2013
Rubbing Salt in it: poets mourn publisher's pullout
The poetry world is still reverberating over the news that independent publishers Salt will no longer be publishing single collections of poetry. The Norfolk-based publisher announced last week that, “after 13 years and over 400 poetry collections, many by debut authors, Salt is to concentrate it...
31st May 2013
North-west's slam stars line up at Prestwich book festival
Poetry performance star Tony Walsh hosts an invitation/all star slam at the Prestwich book festival on 31 May, at Heaton Park sports and social club. Lined up are north-west names Mark Mace Smith, ...
31st May 2013
Write Out Loud at Middleton tonight
Pete Slater is the guest poet at Write Out Loud Middleton on Sunday 26 May, at the Ring O’Bells, St Leonard’s Square, Middleton. Contact gemmathepoet@hotmail.co.uk. Entry is a £2 donation to this o...
26th May 2013
North-west poetry anthology reading at Hebden Bridge
John Siddique, Andrew Oldham, and editors Lindsey Holland and Angela Topping will be among those reading at a launch of Sculpted: Poetry of the North West, an anthology of 62 of the north-west’s be...
22nd May 2013
Poets and performers read from Sylvia Plath's Ariel at Festival Hall
Sylvia Plath died 50 years ago, leaving a black binder of poems that was to become her final, posthumously published collection, Ariel. Forty leading female poets and performers will read one poem ...
22nd May 2013
Kate Fox is Glastonbury website poet in residence
Kate Fox, a regular poet on Radio 4’s Saturday Live, will be this year’s website poet in residence at the Glastonbury festival. Fox, who was poet in residence for the Great North Run in 2011, writi...
22nd May 2013
Chanje Kunda at Write Out Loud Sale tonight
Poet, playwright and performance artist Chanje Kunda is one of the guests at Write Out Loud Sale on Tuesday 21 May at the Waterside arts centre, Sale. Mantz Yorke and David Judge are also on the bi...
21st May 2013
Charlotte Henson at Write Out Loud Bolton tonight
Young poet and magazine editor Charlotte Henson is the guest at Write Out Loud Bolton on Sunday 19 May at the Brooklyn pub, Green Lane, Bolton. Entry is £1 to this open mic event. Email Jeff Dawson...
19th May 2013
Kate Fox is Glastonbury website poet in residence
Kate Fox, a regular on Radio 4’s Saturday Live, will be this year’s website poet in residence at the Glastonbury festival. Fox, who was poet in residence for the Great North Run in 2011, writing an...
17th May 2013
Odds-on success: Rod Tame launches debut collection
Write Out Loud Sale’s host and co-ordinator Rod Tame will be launching his debut poetry collection, Strange World Odd Person, published by Flapjack Press, on Thursday 16 May at Manchester City Libr...
16th May 2013
Write Out Loud at Marsden tonight
Write Out Loud Marsden meets on Wednesday, May 15 at Marsden library, for another evening of open-floor poetry, plus the odd story and musical interlude, hosted by Write Out Loud’s Julian Jordon. C...
15th May 2013
Write Out Loud's reviews editor wins poetry award
Hearty congratulations from all at Write Out Loud to our reviews editor, Frances Spurrier, who has won the Cinnamon Press poetry collection award. Her collection, Pilgrim’s Trail, will be published...
13th May 2013
Write Out Loud at Stockport tonight
The creative minds of Write Out Loud Stockport get together again on Monday 13 May at Stockport art gallery. The group produces a collage poem at each monthly meeting, and recently published its ow...
13th May 2013
Elmi Ali at relaunched Bury open mic night, Once More with Meaning
Elmi Ali is the guest at Bury’s relaunched Once More with Meaning open mic night on Sunday 12 May. The event, at the Studio theatre, The Met, Bury, begins at 7.30pm, with entry £3. It’s organised ...
12th May 2013
Whole lot of shaking going on: poets join fight against fracking
Write Out Loud names Laura Taylor, Joy France, Neil Fawcett, Jeffarama, and Solomon Scribble will be performing poetry on Friday and Saturday, 10 and 11 May, at Camp Frack, at Mere Brow, near Tarle...
10th May 2013
Book launch and anthology in 'literary backwater' Leeds
A young poet is launching his debut collection in Leeds, amid some controversy over whether or not the city is a literary backwater, and an anthology competition aimed specifically at young poets w...
9th May 2013
Write Out Loud at Wigan tonight
Madcap poets from the environs of Wigan and beyond convene at the Tudor House hotel in Wigan on Thursday, 9 May for another robust night of open mic entertainment. Write Out Loud Wigan begins at 8....
9th May 2013
Write Out Loud regulars in collection supporting fire-hit bookshop
On 1 February this year, Freedom Bookshop, London’s anarchist press and bookshop, was seriously damaged in a suspected firebomb attack. Freedom Press was founded in 1886 by a group including Charlo...
6th May 2013
Puzzle solved: Sowerby Bridge poetry session goes ahead after all
Organisers of Sowerby Bridge Puzzle Poets are keen to emphasise that tonight's session on 6 May at the Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge, will be taking place after all. The bank holiday event had be...
6th May 2013
Floating in a tin can: contest to send a haiku to Mars
Want to send a haiku into space? Nasa is inviting members of the public to submit their names and a personal message online for a DVD to be carried aboard a spacecraft that will study the Martian ...
3rd May 2013
Rosalind Jana wins Hippocrates young poets prize
A 17-year-old student from Hereford sixth form college has won the inaugural Hippocrates Young Poets prize of £500. Rosalind Jana’s winning poem was titled Posterior Instrumented Fusion for Adolesc...
3rd May 2013
Travel to Timbuktu, via Huddersfield, tonight
The fabled city, once dazzling commercial and intellectual capital of the Songhay empire, now just another impoverished desert town on the adventure holiday trail for affluent Western tourists, a g...
2nd May 2013
Deadline nears in voting for Saboteur spoken word awards
The clock is ticking if you want to vote for the Saboteur awards for best spoken word performer, best spoken word show, or best spoken word night, with a total of 12 categories (voting deadline mid...
1st May 2013
