Poet who won't let us forget Ukraine publishes war collection
A poet who has been blogging poems about the war in Ukraine on the Write Out Loud website since Russia’s invasion in February has published 40 of them in a collection available on Amazon. Stephen Gospage’s The Shape of Ukraine is available in Kindle and paperback versions. He plans to donate all proceeds from the book to Ukrainian charities.
In his introduction to his book Stephen, who made sev...
30th November 2022
Poet whose work was read out by MP publishes collection
In what amounts to a blizzard of printed poetry, Stephen Atkinson is the third regular Write Out Loud poet who has recently published a collection. Back in September Stephen’s poem ‘Our Lily’, summing up how he felt about the death of Queen Elizabeth, was read out in Parliament by his MP. And he qui...
30th November 2022
Write Out Loud regular John Botterill airs collection on radio
Write Out Loud regular John Botterill has published a collection of his poetry under the pen name of JG Barwell - and was interviewed about it on Manchester’s ALL-FM 96.9 radio station.
John expla...
24th November 2022
Offa's Press launches anthology of West Midlands poetry
New Voices, a showcase anthology of poetry from the West Midlands, has been published by Offa’s Press. It is edited by publisher Simon Fletcher, and includes poetry by Tom Allsopp, from Hednesford, St...
27th August 2022
