I once read a call for submissions to a young poets anthology that required all poets to have been born since 1970.

People born since 1970 are legally allowed to be grandparents; they remember the fall of the Berlin Wall; they were alive when John Lennon and Bob Marley...

For one reason or other, lately I've been having the same conversation: do poets really care about slams? It got me thinking because I help run the Hammer + Tongue Bristol arm - which features a monthly slam - and I'm a part of the team behind the National Team...

As someone who deals in words, it is too often that I forget what they are able to do. For better or worse, sometimes words mean everything.

In the last week I've been watching the steady spread of Dean Atta's poem 'I am Nobody's Nigger'. Since the moment...

Poetry and music have long gone hand-in-hand. Without wanting to dig out my Literature degree notes, it's been going on for millennia. And it isn't difficult to understand why given the poetic nature of music and musicality of words. There are a whole host of quotations one might be able...