Roundhouse to recapture the spirit of '65
The spirit of a unique happening almost 50 years ago which saw more than 7,000 people flock to the Albert Hall to listen to poetry will be recaptured at an event at the Roundhouse on Saturday 30 May featuring two of the original participants. Michael Horovitz and Pete Brown took part in the International Poetry Incarnation on 11 June 1965 along with American Beat poets Allen Ginbserg, Gregory Cors...
30th May 2015
'A tremendous sense of occasion': David Andrew on the Albert Hall Incarnation
One of the thousands of people who were at the Albert Hall in 1965 for the International Poetry Incarnation was poet and Write Out Loud gig guide editor David Andrew. He recalls: “I was 26, and had been interested in poetry for getting on 10 years. I’d already come across the Beat poets, and still h...
30th May 2015
Write Out Loud's Risk a Verse at Huddersfield's Red and Green Club tonight
Write Our Loud founder Julian Jordon will be convening another Risk a Verse night open floor night at the Red and Green Club, Milnsbridge, Huddersfield, on Thursday 28 April. Entry is free, and it sta...
28th May 2015
Ted Hughes in Mexborough: new festival aims to put overlooked Yorkshire town back on poet's map
A new festival is aiming to restore an overlooked landmark in the life of Ted Hughes to its proper place on the map later this year. The Ted Hughes Project (South Yorkshire) plans to develop a Ted Hug...
24th May 2015
Steve Pottinger at Write Out Loud Middleton on Sunday
Popular performance poet Steve Pottinger is continuing his tour of the north-west and Write Out Loud venues with an appearance at Write Out Loud Middleton on Sunday 24 May. Steve, who regularly posts ...
23rd May 2015
Best spoken word night, best performer, best show? Voting deadline nears for Saboteur awards
Time is running out for voting in the Saboteur indie lit awards, with the deadline Sunday 24 May. The list of nominations for awards include best regular spoken word night (Bad Language, Bang Said the...
21st May 2015
Poet apologises for 'appropriations' as poems are withdrawn and book is pulped
A poet has apologised “to my readers, the poetry community and most of all to the poets whose work I have unintentionally appropriated”, over a number of uncredited borrowings from other poets in her ...
21st May 2015
Write Out Loud at Marsden library tonight
Write Out Loud Marsden is back at Marsden library, Peel Street, Marsden, on Wednesday 20 May. All are welcome, as always, to share their own poems or favourite published ones (or other short piece of ...
20th May 2015
Steve Pottinger at Write Out Loud Sale on Tuesday
Steve Pottinger, fresh from his appearance in Bolton at the Write Out Loud / Live From Worktown night, will be guest poet at Write Out Loud Sale on Tuesday 19 May. Entry is £3/£2 to this open mic nigh...
19th May 2015
Van Morrison and Jimmy Page take in some poetry at the Troubadour
Coffee-House Poetry has always made much of its musical roots at the famous Troubadour cellar club in London, where Bob Dylan and Paul Simon both played in the 1960s. Rock music legends Van Morrison a...
18th May 2015
Best spoken word night, best performer, best show? Voting deadline nears for Saboteur awards
Time is running out for voting in the Saboteur indie lit awards, with the deadline Sunday 24 May. The list of nominations for awards include best regular spoken word night (Bad Language, Bang Said the...
18th May 2015
Write Out Loud Bolton at the Brooklyn tonight
Write Out Loud Bolton was on the bill at Bolton’s Live From Worktown festival last weekend, with a “buzzing” open mic night with guest poets Louise Fazackerley and Steve Pottinger. Now it’s back at it...
17th May 2015
Campaign to raise £5,000 to open poetry bookshop
A £5,000 crowdfunding campaign has been launched to raise funds to open a poetry bookshop in London. The man behind the idea is Paul McMenemy, editor of the monthly magazine Lunar Poetry. He said the ...
16th May 2015
Write Out Loud Wigan at the Old Courts tonight
Isobel Malinowski will be compering and keeping poets in some sort of order at Write Out Loud Wigan at the Old Courts, Crawford Street, Wigan on Thursday 14 May. The free open mic event starts at 8.30...
14th May 2015
Monthly poetry magazine notches up 200th issue
The publishers of a monthly poetry magazine are celebrating after arriving at their 200th issue. Reach Poetry magazine is produced by Indigo Dreams. IDP publisher and editor of Reach, Ronnie Goodyer, ...
12th May 2015
York's Say Owt on Saboteur shortlist for best spoken word night
York’s Say Owt Slam has made the shortlist for best regular spoken word night in the Saboteur indie literature awards, with voting for the awards open from 4-27 May. Also on the spoken word night shor...
11th May 2015
Live Canon perform election poetry on polling day eve
How have poets responded to elections, hustings, and campaigns in previous generations and across the world? How has poetry been used as a form of ballot-box protest? And how did the suffragettes use ...
11th May 2015
Write Out Loud at Stockport art gallery tonight
Members of Write Out Loud Stockport will be meeting at Stockport art gallery on Monday 11 May at 7pm to read and discuss their own poetry. Entry is a £1 donation. Each month a collage poem is created ...
11th May 2015
Do something! If you're not in the Great Manchester Run, tune in to watch - and hear Tony Walsh's poems
Manchester’s unofficial poet laureate, Tony Walsh, was due to be featured on BBC2 today at the beginning and end of the Great Manchester Run, Europe’s biggest 10-kilometre race, with 40,000 runners. W...
10th May 2015
Reaching for the moon: Lunar Poetry magazine is launched
One door closes, another opens. Last month saw the departure of the long-running Monkey Kettle poetry magazine, suspending publication indefinitely after 15 years. Now some good news … a new poetry ma...
7th May 2015
