Blake Morrison sends protest poem to newspaper’s letters page
It’s not often that a letter is sent to a national newspaper in the form of a poem – even when it’s from a poet. But Blake Morrison chose to do so in a letter headed ‘A compilation of terrorists’ – it’s also the title of the poem - that was published in the Guardian.
In it Morrison lists people down the ages who implicitly could have fallen foul of new anti-terrorist legislation, and could hav...
30th July 2025
BSL poets shortlisted among 20 contenders for this year's Forward prizes
Raymond Antrobus and Zoë McWhinney have been shortlisted in the performance poem category for the 2025 Forward prizes, in the first year the prize has been open to poems performed in British Sign Language.
Juana Adcock (I Sugar the Bones), Leo Boix (Southernmost: Sonnets), Niall Campbell (The Isl...
20th July 2025
Poet's 'mixed feelings' about collection that won Wales Book of the Year award for poetry
A poetry collection that has been said to confront experiences of abuse in a lesbian relationship as well as the relationship between a mother and daughter has won the Wales Book of the Year award for...
18th July 2025
‘Reading poetry at an open-mic night changed my life!’
Heartening news about the healing power of open-mic poetry – something we at Write Out Loud have always evangelised about – has come in an article in the Guardian.
1st July 2025
