Facing the music with Luke Wright's band at Mother Wolf Club
Luke Wright will be headlining The Mother Wolf Club’s Christmas special event on 10 December at The Macbeth in Hoxton, east London, along with eight other feature artists including Luke's new band People Who Run the Country, slam champions Megan Beech and Bethany Rose, and Jamie Merrick, who recently featured on the Sky Arts Bafta-winning show Life and Rhymes. It starts at 7.30pm. More details
30th November 2021
Outbreak of 'cancel culture' on the Write Out Loud Gig Guide?
We’re sure you’ve noticed that we have an expanded Write Out Loud Gig Guide on our home page again, which includes online and in-person events. You may also have noticed that a few of them are marked ‘Cancelled’. It's not because of an outbreak of 'cancel culture'. Instead, it’s because we have been...
15th November 2021
Celebration of Coventry-Dresden peace poems in cathedral
A celebration of a collaborative book in English and German of poems by Coventry peace poet Antony Owen that reinforces the links between his city and the German city of Dresden will take place in Cov...
30th October 2021
Pow! New performance poetry night to be launched in London
A new performance poetry night is being launched in south-east London. POW! – Play on Words – will be staged at the Bridge House theatre, Penge, and will be organised and compered by Lee Campbell, who...
30th September 2021
Free weekend festival of spoken word lined up for Leamington
The second annual Leamington poetry festival returns to the town’s Temperance Café in October with fringe shows, comedy, workshops, open mics, and readings. The weekend of October 23-24 will be a free...
28th September 2021
Paul Muldoon on bill at Winchester festival's live weekend
Paul Muldoon will be appearing at Winchester poetry festival’s three-day live event in early October, which marks the culmination of five months of online events, as well as the Poet on the High Stree...
7th September 2021
BBC's Contains Strong Language spoken word festival coming to Coventry City of Culture
The annual poetry and spoken word festival BBC Contains Strong Language comes to Coventry City of Culture this year with over 50 Covid-compliant and in-person poetry events taking place in the city be...
23rd August 2021
Puzzle Poets return with two nights each month
Sowerby Bridge’s Puzzle Poets are returning to live, in-person nights next month after a pandemic gap of 16 months – with a monthly double bill. Their first night back will be on Monday 6 September at...
18th August 2021
Writing kitchen cooks up anthology to celebrate 20 years
Around 20 year ago, poets Malika Booker and Roger Robinson saw the need for a space where writers outside the establishment could grow, discuss and learn. One Friday night, Malika offered her Brixton ...
4th August 2021
Luke Wright heads a poetry festival fortnight in Tunbridge Wells
Luke Wright will be headlining Tunbridge Wells poetry festival, which will take place from 15-27 August. Organisers say there will be slam and open-mic opportunities throughout the festival fortnight,...
31st July 2021
Festival's Poet on the High St prepares to pop up in Winchester
Winchester poetry festival’s Poet on the High St (aka performance poet Jonny Fluffypunk) will be popping up at Winchester’s Projects Café in Middle Brook Street on 23 July from 10.30am-2pm, and at Pie...
15th July 2021
Online voting this year at Hammer & Tongue's national slam final at Royal Albert Hall
The Hammer & Tongue national slam final – which was postponed last year because of the pandemic - will take place on Sunday 4 July at London’s Royal Albert Hall, with an additional online feature.
...24th June 2021
Spoken word and music night to make you howl: London's Mother Wolf Club opens its doors
The spoken word scene in London is slowly returning to live – and meanwhile a brand-new night has risen with easing of lockdown. The Mother Wolf Club – a mix of poetry including open-mic, and music – ...
17th June 2021
Luke Wright heads back on the road with three different shows
Luke Wright, this year’s Saboteur spoken word award winner and an indefatigable online performer during lockdown, is taking three different shows on tour in the coming months as lockdown eases, as wel...
15th June 2021
Fishing for an audience: live poetry events at Brixham museum
The fishing town of Brixham in south Devon will be staging its own three-day live literary event next month. Brixham Books and Bards at Brixham Heritage Museum from 1-3 June will include Paignton perf...
4th May 2021
Free readings at Seren Cardiff online poetry festival
The 2021 Seren Cardiff poetry festival began on Thursday 15 April with four days of online readings, workshops and events. All the events – apart from the workshops – are free.
Benjamin Zephaniah w...
17th April 2021
Remembering May Ayim and Julia Darling at Dead [Women] Poets Society
Two women poets, May Ayim and Julia Darling, will be remembered when Dead [Women] Poets Society meet online on Sunday 11 April. Momtaza Mehri and Hannah Hodgson will be speaking about the lives and le...
28th March 2021
Bolton's Live From Worktown to broadcast poems from around the globe on World Poetry Day
The Bolton-based arts organisation Live From Worktown is staging a virtual Cultural Cabaret event to celebrate World Poetry Day on Sunday 21 March at 7.30pm. Fourteen poets will be reading 14 poems, m...
21st March 2021
Festival launches Manchester Poetry Library's Polish collection
Following their highly successful 2018 Polish Poetry Festival, Radość Pisania, Manchester Metropolitan University’s Writing School is having another on Saturday 27 February, this time to celebrate the...
24th February 2021
Replying to Keats: new poems from three contemporary poets on bicentenary
The Poetry Society has marked the bicentenary of the death of John Keats on 23 February by commissioning three contemporary poets – Ruth Padel, Will Harris and Rachael Boast –to respond to their favou...
22nd February 2021
StAnza poetry festival marks end of the Soviet Union
StAnza, Scotland's international poetry festival from 6-14 March will mark the 30th anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union as a political unit with a focus on languages from countries of the forme...
20th February 2021
Writ in water: radio play and poetry event to mark bicentenary of John Keats' death in Rome
The Keats-Shelley Memorial Association is marking the start of two years of events celebrating the lives and works of poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley with a commissioned play, Writ in Water,...
17th February 2021
Celebrating the NHS with These Are the Hands anthology reading at Kendal poetry festival
A reading from the NHS anthology These Are the Hands will be one of the highlights of Kendal poetry festival, taking place online from 19-28 February. The anthology published by Fair Acre Press featur...
3rd February 2021
