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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...

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'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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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Poet apologises for 'appropriations' as poems are withdrawn and book is pulped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 ...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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, ...

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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...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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