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My Lovelorn Love Letter for Mississippi Isabel

King Charles 11.05.2012

My name is King Charles and last week I released my debut album called LoveBlood. On LoveBlood, there are three songs dedicated to a lady...

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WATCH: Slam Poet National Champion Adam Kammerling

11.05.2012

Adam Kammerling is the 2012 Hammer and Tongue National Slam Poet Championship. “I was originally drawn to spoken word by the freedom...

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A (Song)Book Of Nonsense For Edward Lear's 200th Birthday

Sam Parker 11.05.2012

Happy birthday Edward Lear! You'll be pleased to know that, 200 years after you were born, your nonsense poems and limericks are still...

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The Footage

Tim Cumming 10.05.2012

With the imminent release of The Dictator, Baron Cohen's despot comedy this new blog post is a new poem, begun on a flight to Khartoum...

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The Rapprochement Between Pop Music and High Culture

Tanjil Rashid 9.05.2012

"Pop and thought don't go together," a BBC controller once said, resisting the introduction of pop music to his schedules. That battle...

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Review: Luke Wright's Cynical Ballads

Charlotte Skeoch 4.05.2012

'We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us': John Keats' self-assured proclamation is nakedly emblazoned across two large projection...

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Writing a Poem Every Day

Athos Athanasiou 2.05.2012

Runners have marathons, trekkers have Kilimanjaro or the Himalayas, and poets? Poets have NaPoWriMo, otherwise known as National Poetry...

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Why Critics Aren't Everything and Why Writing Is

Sian S. Rathore 2.05.2012

I have been a critic for much longer than I have been a poet. Being a writer is tough. In a world where everyone who owns a Macbook and...

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The Rhyme Lord

27.04.2012

Doctor Who star Matt Smith is going from time lord to rhyme lord - by introducing poetry to a new generation. The actor is to narrate...

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Hackney - Acquired for Development

Kit Caless 26.04.2012

In a borough as diverse as Hackney, you will never capture the area in its entirety, and this was never our intention. What the books is,...

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WATCH: Simon Armitage On Why Poetry Is 'Unkillable'

Sam Parker 19.04.2012

Sat at a poetry reading in church in Laugharne, the small town in South Wales famous for being the home of Dylan Thomas, it's hard to think...

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A Poem For The Titanic Anniversary

11.04.2012

Like many artists and writers before her, award-winning poet Allison McVety has drawn inspiration from the story of the Titanic for a poem...

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The Artistic Temperament and Creativity

Sian S. Rathore 5.04.2012

We all know about the insanity that Van Gogh, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath lived with, and we perhaps are guilty of believing their...

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The World Of Child Geniuses

3.04.2012

Following the recent success of child novelist Mia Foley Doyle, we decided to take a look at other talented children who have proved their...

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