POETRY ALLOWED: 3 day summer school
POETRY ALLOWED: 3 day summer school 1st 2nd & 3rd August £54/ £49/ £32.50
For new and/ or developing poets. Whether you write for the page, stage, or occasional reading, this fun course will offer you plenty - including stage and performance techniques. Led by performance poet and events organiser Rosemary Dun (pictured)
Bristol Folk House, 40a Park Street, Bristol BS1 5JG tel: 0117 926 2987...
30th June 2006
Current Accounts Issue 22 Now On Sale
It was early evening on Wednesday 28th July and all the Bank Street writers had gathered at Sweetens Bookshop on Deansgate in Bolton for the Launch of Current Accounts 22 and readings of the winning entries from the Bank Street Writers Competition 2005/6.
Write Out Loud regulars made a significant c...
30th June 2006
Song writing course at Lancaster University
Lancaster University
Department of Continuing Education
Summer Programme
Songwriting
Tutor: Amy Alexander
Monday 30 July - Friday 4 August 2006
1.45 - 4.45 pm
If you have always wanted to write your...
23rd June 2006
Manchester Library link up with Bloodaxe Books
Manchester Central Library link up with Bloodaxe Books to present lunch time readings by contemporary poets. The first of these is by Ruth Fainlight (pictured) who has published 11 collections of poet...
19th June 2006
Tony Walsh at Latitude Festival. Thick Richard, too.
Watch out Suffolk!
Tony Walsh is at Suffolk's Latitude Festival, alongside such (other) luminaries as John Cooper Clarke and Lemn Sissay.
Tony, a regular supporter of Write out Loud events and its co...
18th June 2006
Can Science and Poetry mix?
Traditionally opposed subjects? Or an important meeting of minds? Why do so many scientists also write poetry?
The website of Liverpool University Centre for Poetry and Science looks at the relation...
16th June 2006
Rosie Lugosi posts her profile
The vampire leaves the cave. Read more on our Poets' Showcase page.
13th June 2006
Sarah MacLennan appointed DGPS Co-ordinator
Sarah MacLennan (pictured) has been appointed the new co-ordinator for Liverpool's Dead Good Poets Society following the resignation of Cath Nichols. Cath has decided to resume her education undertaki...
13th June 2006
'best poet I have ever seen in my life.”
Read Tony Walsh (pictured) reviews an event in London which sounds to have been one of the highlights of the performance poetry year. Check it out in our discussions pages.
13th June 2006
uses language the way Hendrix used his guitar
Californian writer, Tony Rodriguez is our latest poets' profile.
"It occurs to me that Tony R. Rodriguez is working dicey ground. In the tradition of other literary rowdies, Kerouac, Bukowski, Kesey,...
2nd June 2006
Giving the world to Venus
Row upon row, cot upon cot and the smell, not Johnson’s baby shampoo or sweet talcum-powdered bottoms I watch the worn out, tired, hard-lifed women as they casually throw babies around, for a...
1st June 2006
