Poetry
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The 2023 Newcastle Poetry Prize, 18 Nov
Her poem one of thirty chosen for the anthology, out of more than 800
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New Chapters, Eastern Europe 1990
Eastern Europe, in the spring of 1990, change was happening quickly.
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Poetry for the Planet
We must lean into hope and solutions in our storytelling, to raise the energy within
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Poets, image and ego
‘I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself’ Walt Whitman’s opening line to Leaves of Grass.
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The sun’s ‘bright wings’
Gerard Manley Hopkins. In 'God's Grandeur' the brown brink is industry and pollution.
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To celebrate World Poetry Day – some world poetry
a poet who sang and died / leaving this singed elegy / before the faces of poets, / for birds at the edge…
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Poet Mohammad Bashir al-Aani murdered by ISIS
Mohammad Bashir al-Aani wa rounded up with a hundred others in their home town of Deir Ezzor. ISIS fighters may…
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National Poetry Day (in England)
They will say you are fools Who know nothing of politics. Women and artists must keep out of politics. Christopher…
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