'Like sitting on top of the world': former family home of Ted Hughes up for sale
A house in Heptonstall, West Yorkshire, that once belonged to the family of Ted Hughes, and of which Sylvia Plath wrote in a letter to her mother, “Up here it is like sitting on top of the world'', is for sale.
The three-bedroom, detached house is called The Beacon, and in estate agent parlance “enjoys superb, uninterrupted views”.
It had great significance for Ted Hughes. According to the u...
28th August 2022
Thank you, Stephen Gospage, for never letting us forget about the war in Ukraine
We at Write Out Loud would like to mark Ukraine Independence Day by paying tribute to our own regular contributor Stephen Gospage, who has been untiring in posting poems about the terrible situation in Ukraine on this site. While the media has grown weary of reporting the atrocities perpetrated almo...
24th August 2022
Pennine trek raises £3,000 for women's poetry organisation - and leaves treasures behind
A treasure trove of six prize-winning poems in the form of small art objects was left along the Pennine Way after a charity walk earlier this summer by poet Richard Skinner, pictured. Some of the obje...
10th August 2022
Simon Armitage reflects on 10 Philip Larkin poems to mark centenary
The poet laureate Simon Armitage will be examining Philip Larkin’s poems in 10 BBC Radio 4 programmes, starting on Monday 8 August, to mark the centenary of Larkin’s birth. The poems he will be lookin...
9th August 2022
Open-mic poetry group launches Ukraine anthology
A poetry anthology to help raise funds for displaced Ukrainian refugees has been published by an open-mic poetry group in south-west London. Most of the poets featured in Poems for Ukraine regularly p...
9th August 2022
