Born Lippy lines up 'wordsmiths and beat wizards' at Lindisfarne festival
Hannah Lavery, Hamish MacDonald, Rowan McCabe, and Tahmina Ali (pictured) will be on the bill at the Born Lippy Stage Invasion at the Lindisfarne festival on 1-2 September. Friday on the Dingle Dell stage is from 12.30pm - 6pm, and on Saturay it's from 11am to 1pm. “The finest wordsmiths and beat wizards from both sides of the border” also include Kavanan, Scrannabis, Too Common, AP3, Ami True, Th...
30th August 2023
From Write Out Loud Wigan to Edinburgh: Joy France takes story of how she became a battle-rapper to the Fringe
A experienced performer who cut her teeth on the open mic poetry stage at Write Out Loud Wigan and has been making headlines in recent years with her forays into the young, male-dominated world of battle rap has taken her story to the Edinburgh Free Fringe.
28th August 2023
Home and away: poet's writing course on aspects of 'abroad'
Poet Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana, who last year published a debut collecton that centred on her 10 years in Japan, is running a series of online writing workshops on Wednesday mornings online, beginnin...
28th August 2023
Strong language from around the world at BBC festival in Leeds
An international gathering of poets to celebrate Leeds and the 175-plus languages spoken in the city will be one of the highlights of the BBC Contains Strong Language festival from 21-24 September. Po...
28th August 2023
Frieda Hughes to publish weekly poem in Independent
The Independent online newspaper has launched a new poetry column featuring an original poem each week by Frieda Hughes. The daughter of the former poet laureate Ted Hughes, and Pulitzer Prize-winning...
27th August 2023
Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice: ed. Anne Caldwell, Oz Hardwick, Routledge
Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice is an engaging collection of essays that focus on the on the how and the why of prose poetry. However, the question I get asked most about this enigmatic form as a ...
25th August 2023
Wunderkammer: Helen Ivory, MadHat Press
Wunderkammer is the new and selected poems of UK poet Helen Ivory, published by New England publisher MadHat Press, based in Massachusetts. The book contains poems that chart Helen Ivory’s poetry care...
25th August 2023
Thinking of Seamus Heaney as tenth anniversary of his death nears
Nobel laurate Seamus Heaney’s final words to his wife were "Noli timere ... do not be afraid", sent in a text message from his hospital bed, his son, Michael, revealed at his funeral 10 years ago. Hea...
23rd August 2023
We Wear the Crown: Lucy Heuschen, Hedgehog Press
We Wear the Crown is a brave and slant testament to surviving breast cancer, written by a poet who never fails to keep her readers close. This slim volume packs in a world of pain, family disruption a...
22nd August 2023
He's got talent! Article for Write Out Loud leads to Fringe show for comedy poet Robert Garnham
A comedy poet is performing a new show at Edinburgh that he created from a humorous article he originally wrote for Write Out Loud. Robert Garnham’s hour-long show Bouncer is based on true events. In ...
21st August 2023
Poetry performance opportunity, where Wordsworth wandered
Write Out Loud started out by offering people who previously wrote poetry in secret a chance to share their work with others in small gatherings of like-minded folks, often called open mic events, eve...
15th August 2023
Poets to read at Benedictine monastery on Isle of Wight
Poets Maggie Sawkins and Blake Everitt will be taking part in Translating the Silence, a poetry reading at Quarr Abbey, a Catholic Benedictine monastery on the Isle of Wight, on 22 August at 5.30pm.
...14th August 2023
City's 'Bard' John Cooper Clarke granted Freedom of Salford
John Cooper Clarke, known for many years as the ‘Bard of Salford’, has had his status officially recognised by the city where he was born and raised. Salford council has granted him the Freedom of the...
14th August 2023
Popshot literary quarterly to end print operation
The quarterly literary magazine Popshot, which has been publishing poetry, flash fiction and short stories for over 10 years, has announced that it is ending print operations. The magazine said that “...
13th August 2023
Nigel Planer to publish poetry he's been writing for 50 years
The actor, writer and musician Nigel Planer – best known for playing hippie Neil in the BBC comedy The Young Ones – is to publish a poetry collection and memoir. Making Other Plans, as in “poetry is w...
12th August 2023
Magic in the mix: laid-back poetry night casts its own spell
I hesitate to write about this poetry night, for fear of breaking its spell. All poetry nights are different in their own way, but Wooler Poetry Café close to the Cheviot Hills in Northumberland has a...
12th August 2023
Be prepared! Wellies and Words outdoor open-mic in park
Chanje Kunde is the guest poet at a new outdoor open-mic event titled Wellies and Words taking place in the secret garden at Haigh Woodland Park, Wigan on Sunday 13 August at 11.30 am. Turn up with a ...
12th August 2023
Tell tales of sea folk at Saltburn festival spoken word session
Helen Darby will be hosting a poetry and spoken word session on the theme of ‘sea folk’ - from ballads of pirates, seafarers and their ships, to tales of merpeople and selkies - at Saltburn Folk Festi...
2nd August 2023
