Ambitious poems by contemporary women poets. Edited by Myra Schneider, Penelope Shuttle and Dilys Wood. The focus is on women’s writing which deals with ‘big issues’, for example the future of the planet, good and evil aspects of our relationship with the natural world and with each other, different aspects of our imaginative understanding of […]
From Aberdeen to the Isle of Wight, Out of Bounds is a newly charted map of Britain as viewed by its black and Asian poets. It takes the reader on a riveting, sensory journey through Scotland, England and Wales, showing the whole country from a fresh perspective. This extensive and ground-breaking anthology – with its […]
This beautiful anthology brings together over 250 poems about flowers, plants and trees from eight centuries of writing in English, creating a rich bouquet of intriguing juxtapositions. Fourteenth-century lyrics sit next to poems of the twenty-first century; celebrations of plants native to the English soil share the volume with more exotic plant poetry. There are […]
Collage a poem from fragments of memory with Festival Poet in Residence, Seni Seneviratne. An old family story, a character from your family tree, a story from your past (more…)
Celebrate National Poetry Day at our annual open mic and networking event for poets from across the Yorkshire region. Catch up with other writers, share your pamphlets and chapbooks. Hosted by Seni Seneviratne with headliners Rose Drew and Alan Gillott of Stairwell Books. (more…)
The Forward Book of Poetry 2008, published on National Poetry Day, collects together the judges’ highly commended poems from all the submissions considered for this year’s Forward Prizes for Poetry
