Wirral's Winter - Where?
So, given THAT information, it would seem that the notions, concepts and ideologies that have influenced the wh...
31st December 2009
Clay by Mandy Coe - Book Launch
Mandy Coe’s book launch took place last month at The Parr Street Studio 2, Liverpool. It was a wonderful venue for a launch; a room that looked as if Austin Powers had a hand in its design full of oranges and reds, filmed flames flickering on a wall, comfortable leather sofas.
Mandy w...
5th December 2009
Earning a crust
2nd December 2009
Talking Myself Home by Ian McMillan
He is not your stereotypical poet; those dusty...
1st December 2009
POETS & …(YOU’VE HAD YOUR) CHIPS
For reasons even I can’t explain - some things are just meant to go together. Laurel and Hardy. Morecombe and Wise. Beans and Toast. This list is long. Perhaps, too long - but nowhere on it would yo...
25th November 2009
Wirral Meet Again...
25th November 2009
A Tree With a Thousand Wings by Harish Meenashru
25th November 2009
Sirenator: The Rise of the Machines
18th November 2009
The Wrong Trouser(s) Town
Hebden Bridge forms part of the Upper Calder Valley situated in amongst the hills of West Yorkshire. It shares its Metropolitan borders with those lesser known Yorkshire hamlets namely ‘Semi-conscio...
5th November 2009
The Dead House
Having spent a small but significant part of my life dealing with death, it was incumbent upon me to enter those bland, lifeless rooms - better known in some law enforcing circles as - The Dead Hou...
21st September 2009
Big Chill Festival
Words in Motion at The Big Chill 6-9 August 2009
The Big Chill started as the Big Deluge, catching us out as we tried to erect our tents in the dark on Thursday night. How I laughed whe...
2nd September 2009
RIP Steven 'Seething' Wells
Just about to leave for Glasto on a Thursday morning, one final e-mail check...among the spam was a message from my footie...
8th July 2009
Hovis Presley Obituary
It was the 4th anniversary of Hovis's death earlier this month and we thought we'd mark it by reprinting Tony Hadoke's obituary. Richard was a regular at Write Out Loud and was a friend to many of us....
15th June 2009
Superheroes of slam - Bolton Leg
The Stranglers once asked ‘ Whatever happened to - all those Superheroes (of poetry)…’ or something like that. Well, none got their ears burnt, or watched a Rome burn - instead, they gathered at Bo...
1st June 2009
The Palace of Oblivion, by Peter Davidson
‘Lady of cultured pearls, fictitious skies, real shit:’
So goes the opening line of the first of a suite of poems, The Palace of Oblivion, which lends this collection its title. It’s a lofty conceit in...
22nd January 2009
