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Poetercize: The Poetry Game Show at Nottingham Poetry Festival
Sat 22 Apr 2017Stephen Thomas is a locally-based poet and rapper whose show Poetercize: The Poetry Game Show will be performed as part of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. We had a chat with him about his latest projects in preparation for this year’s festival...
10 Events to get to for Nottingham Poetry Festival
Wed 19 Apr 2017After wiggling their toes in the water back in 2015, Nottingham Poetry Festival is back. Mixing it up with over fifty events, there are local poets of all genres, backgrounds and disciplines, as well as workshops to get wordy in, and plenty of chances for you to get on the mic and give it a go yersen. Plus they’ve got some national treasures popping down – in the form of Britain’s Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, the inimitable John Cooper Clarke, and the lyrical John Hegley. If you don’t think poetry is your thing, think again. If you’re already a fan... well, as you were.
Nottingham Poetry Festival: Wendy Cope
Tue 18 Apr 2017Known for her dry wit and keen eye for parody, Wendy Cope has been a staple of British poetry since her debut in the eighties. We caught up with Wendy ready for her appearance at this year’s poetry festival.
Art Works: Anthony Freeman's Grungy Lion Illustration
Sun 16 Apr 2017A local artist lets us in on his artistic process..
Sound of the Lion #57
Sat 08 Apr 2017With Slumb Party, George Gadd, Clay Shaped Boy, Dark Mother, Whatsmahmood, Vega Bay, One Giant Causeway, Damn Craters and Scorzayzee...
Henry Normal Talks Nottingham Poetry Festival and His Castle Rock Brewery Beer
Tue 04 Apr 2017After the success of the first Nottingham Poetry Festival in Autumn 2015, there are over fifty events going on from Friday 21 - Sunday 30 April. We had a natter with curator and Baby Cow Productions funnyman Henry Normal to talk all things poetry, being a Nottingham lad and his new beer, obviously...
Comedy Writer Lee Stuart Evans Talks Debut Novel Words Best Sung
Tue 28 Mar 2017You may not instantly recognise his name, but Lee Stuart Evans has left his mark all over our telly boxes. Having written for shows such as 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, A League of Their Own, Live at the Apollo and The Big Fat Quiz of the Year, he’s now turned his hand to novel writing. We spoke to him about his Nottingham-based debut, Words Best Sung…
Poetry and Chat with Nottingham Trent University's Rory Waterman
Mon 20 Mar 2017Not only is Rory Waterman Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University, his debut poetry collection, Tonight the Summer’s Over, was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Prize in 2014. We had a chat with him about what politics and poetry mean to him…
Sound of the Lion #56
Sat 04 Mar 2017With Underdark, Tom John Hall, Rosie Abbott, Mowbeck, Matt Blick, The Last Pedestrians, The Amber Herd, Kirk Spencer, and Sleaford Mods...
Sound of the Lion #55
Sat 11 Feb 2017With RunRain, DYStopia, Bloody Head, The Death Notes, Fonzse, The Further, Grey Hairs, Harleighblu, and Amber Run...
Film Review: Lion
Sat 04 Feb 2017This new Dev Patel film about a man in search for his past is one worth seeing
Sound of the Lion #54
Wed 01 Feb 2017With Scorzayzee, D.I.D, Trekkah, Society, Cherry Hex & The Dream Church, Nick Aslam, Fat Digester, Onkaur, Albosel, Crosa Rosa, Billie, Mountain Schmountain, Megan Kelsey, Ronika and Red Rack'em...
Sound of the Lion #53
Sat 21 Jan 2017With Babe Punch, Deadbeat At Dawn, Gallery 47, The Age of Stella, Nekeyo, J Littles x Nick Stez, The Damn Heavy, Church of the Cosmic Skull, and Seaford Mods…
The Roy Stone Foundation Supports Young Musicians with Mental Health Issues
Tue 20 Dec 2016When Roy Foster, aka Roy Stone, died in October last year, it was not only a devastating loss to those close to him, but also to the city he had entertained for over twenty years as a singer and frontman of the band Performance. The Roy Stone Foundation has been set up to honour his memory. We spoke to one of the organisers, Sally Jackson, to find out more…
Line of Light Poetry Projections on Station Street
Thu 10 Nov 2016We were drawn to the illuminated poetry at Station Street, celebrating our UNESCO City of Literature status...
Nottingham Festival of Literature's Virtual Writer-in-Residence Omar Hazek
Tue 01 Nov 2016Imprisoned for ‘protesting without permission’, Egyptian writer and poet Omar Hazek has since been released, but banned from travelling. To show solidarity with Omar, and other writers facing persecution, he’s the Festival of Literature’s Virtual Writer-in-Residence.
Sound of the Lion #52,Sound of The Lion
Sat 22 Oct 2016With Mannequin, Sea Monster Eyes, Adam Prescott, Adim, The Golden Troubadours, For The Girl, We Are Carnivores, Twinn Kidd, and Bru-C
Poet Lydia Towsey Brings The Venus Papers to Nottingham Writers' Studio
Wed 19 Oct 2016"Lydia Towsey explores what it means to be a female in the 21st century with her one-woman show, touring her thoughts in a load of different cities"
National Poetry Day: Henry Normal and Matthew Welton Poems
Thu 06 Oct 2016Two previously unpublished poems from the Godfathers of poetry, especially for National Poetry Day
National Poetry Day: Henry Normal and Matthew Welton
Thu 06 Oct 2016We spoke to the two Nottingham poets about their upcoming collaboration
7 Wordy Endeavours for National Poetry Day in Nottingham
Wed 05 Oct 2016There's loads of stuff to be getting up to, reading, and listening in on for National Poetry Day in Nottingham
Sound of the Lion #51,Sound of The Lion
Sat 24 Sept 2016With Seas of Mirth, Zaim, One Giant Causeway, Kretchmer, Mammoths, Deafenese, Brooders, On The Open Road, and Lone
Sound of the Lion #50,Sound of The Lion
Fri 26 Aug 2016With Alice Short, Three Body Trio, Bud, Dirty Scroungin' Bastards, Rattle, Moscow Circus, Neil Ward, Ski, and Blaklava
Live Music Review: Rattle Album Launch at Nottingham Writers' Studio
Fri 19 Aug 2016A beat happening to mark the release of the drumming duo's debut LP
Nottingham EDL Protest Met By 400 Anti-Fascists
Mon 08 Aug 2016Saturday saw around sixty members of the English Defence League come to town while around 400 anti-facist demonstrators made it known they're not welcome in Nottingham