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A Poet In Every Port: The project bringing poetry to the UK’s coasts
Poetry

A Poet In Every Port: The project bringing poetry to the UK’s coasts

Poetry can help give a place identity and pride, say poets involved in the Southbank Centre’s new project

Roger McGough: ‘Poetry is within all of us’
Poetry

Roger McGough: ‘Poetry is within all of us’

One of the nation’s most beloved poets, Roger McGough is now fronting a project taking a mobile poetry library to coastal towns across the UK

Remembering a friend with The Fall, sequins, and a poem
Robin Ince

Remembering a friend with The Fall, sequins, and a poem

Expect the unexpected when you ask Robin Ince to deliver a eulogy

A poem of defiance for Renee Good, the woman killed by ICE
Robin Ince

A poem of defiance for Renee Good, the woman killed by ICE

Top 5 female poets chosen by author, anthologist and editor Fiona Waters
Poetry

Top 5 female poets chosen by author, anthologist and editor Fiona Waters

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Tim Key: ‘Christmas will be drinks next to the wheelie bins opposite Costcutter’
My Big Year

Tim Key: ‘Christmas will be drinks next to the wheelie bins opposite Costcutter’

Kae Tempest: ‘Seeing all these young queer and gender queer people makes me feel so happy’
Letter to my Younger Self

Kae Tempest: ‘Seeing all these young queer and gender queer people makes me feel so happy’

You get a good class of conversation in the back of a Glasgow taxi
Robin Ince

You get a good class of conversation in the back of a Glasgow taxi

Cult poet Martin Newell: ‘I am the good granddad of rock ‘n’ roll’
Music

Cult poet Martin Newell: ‘I am the good granddad of rock ‘n’ roll’

If we are to defeat fascists, we have to move forward with love
Robin Ince

If we are to defeat fascists, we have to move forward with love

Poet Rowan McCabe didn’t know his neighbours. So he went door to door writing poems for them
Poetry

Poet Rowan McCabe didn’t know his neighbours. So he went door to door writing poems for them

Wildfire, cheese, tap dancing and buses: Robin Ince’s Edinburgh Fringe 2025
Robin Ince

Wildfire, cheese, tap dancing and buses: Robin Ince’s Edinburgh Fringe 2025

The Edinburgh Fringe was making me feel bleak – until I went on a hunt for joy
Robin Ince

The Edinburgh Fringe was making me feel bleak – until I went on a hunt for joy

Top 5 books about climate grief, chosen by Aerth author Deborah Tomkins
Books

Top 5 books about climate grief, chosen by Aerth author Deborah Tomkins

This pharmacy prescribes words and poems to cure your tattered soul
Robin Ince

This pharmacy prescribes words and poems to cure your tattered soul

At Laugharne, I’m reminded there’s no room for complacency when love is our goal
Robin Ince

At Laugharne, I’m reminded there’s no room for complacency when love is our goal

Labour’s benefits cuts are short-sighted, whatever way you look at it
Paul McNamee

Labour’s benefits cuts are short-sighted, whatever way you look at it

Poet laureate Simon Armitage on his years as a probation officer – and the redemptive power of poetry
Probation service

Poet laureate Simon Armitage on his years as a probation officer – and the redemptive power of poetry

Postnatal thoughts: Having a baby is so irrational – but I did it anyway
10Foot Takeover

Postnatal thoughts: Having a baby is so irrational – but I did it anyway

Kneecap’s DJ Próvaí shares powerful poem to mark St Patrick’s Day
10Foot Takeover

Kneecap’s DJ Próvaí shares powerful poem to mark St Patrick’s Day

Big Issue’s Changemakers of 2025: Culture and sport
Changemakers 2025

Big Issue’s Changemakers of 2025: Culture and sport

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Top 5 books in rhyme, chosen by children’s author Vicky Cowie
Books

Top 5 books in rhyme, chosen by children’s author Vicky Cowie

How Dante’s grudges, gossip and pettiness still inspire hundreds of years on
Books

How Dante’s grudges, gossip and pettiness still inspire hundreds of years on

Poetry is perfect for my ADHD mind – one that is after endless dopamine hits
Robin Ince

Poetry is perfect for my ADHD mind – one that is after endless dopamine hits

Bluff by Danez Smith review – defiant poetry of protest
Books

Bluff by Danez Smith review – defiant poetry of protest