It’s 1.45 in the morning and the first day of the 2024 Morecambe poetry festival is drawing to a close. The last poet standing has just been awarded £100 prize money and a bottle of wine.

The opening day kicked off around 4pm at the Kings Arms, a pub which looks out across the spectacular Morecambe Bay. Rowan McCabe, ‘the world’s first door to door poet’, opened the show. It was then only a sho...

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