Poet Alice Oswald arrested at Palestine Action protest
The award-winning poet Alice Oswald, a former Oxford professor of poetry, was among more than 500 people arrested during the latest protest in London on Saturday over the proscribing of the group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.
All but 10 of the arrests were under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act for displaying supportive placards or signs. Those attending the event in Parliament S...
10th August 2025
Strong line-up of events as BBC festival comes to Bradford
Contains Strong Language is the BBC’s annual celebration of poetry, performance and spoken word – and this year, it’s coming to Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture.
There’ll be four days of performances, readings, events and activities at venues across the city, and a host of BBC radio programmes wi...
8th August 2025
Beside the seaside ... Write Out Loud is going to Morecambe!
Write Out Loud is going to Morecambe poetry festival in September! To mark our regard for this fabulous festival combining top names and grassroots poets - and to celebrate our 20th anniversary year -...
8th August 2025
Why poem titles matter more than you might think
You’ve just read a brilliant poem. The language sparkled, the images lingered, the last line knocked the breath out of you. But 10 minutes later, you’re trying to tell someone about it and you’ve forg...
5th August 2025
Going live! How my pamphlet publication opened door to spoken word scene
I am standing in a ‘community hub’. This takes the form of a prefabricated, restyled chicken shed in the middle of a playing field in my home village of Great Barrow, near Chester. It is a lovely summ...
4th August 2025
'What can writers and poets possibly do in the age of Trump, Farage and Starmer?'
Having been invited by Andy Croft to take part in the launch of Release the Sausages!: poems for Keir Starmer (Culture Matters), an anthology of poetry that contains no poems, I was curious as to what...
2nd August 2025
