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Poet Andrew McMillan on Gearing Up for His Nottingham Poetry Festival Performance
Wed 01 May 2019Georgina Wilding spoke to Andrew McMillan ahead of his Metronome show as a part of Nottingham Poetry Festival on Wednesday 1 May...
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The Nottingham Poetry Festival is Returning This April
Mon 22 Apr 2019Now in its fourth year, Nottingham Poetry Festival 2019 looks set to be the biggest and busiest yet, with an eclectic array of events, workshops and performances filling a jam-packed ten-day schedule between 26 April - 5 May, filling venues like Lakeside Arts Centre, New Art Exchange and Metronome. Our Poetry Editor Chris McLoughlin gives us a run down of some of the highlights...
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10 Events to Go to During Nottingham Poetry Festival 2019
Fri 19 Apr 2019We run down some of the must-see events from this year's Nottingham Poetry Festival...
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The Nottingham Poetry Festival 2019 Has Launched
Mon 08 Apr 2019We got down to the Nottingham Poetry Festival preview event, at the Fox & Grapes on Friday 5 April, where Notts local scene poets, including our very own Bridie Squires and Chris McLoughlin, came together to give us a sample of what’s to come as the fest this year. The Nottingham Poetry Festival 2019 will take place from Friday 26 April to Sunday 5 May...
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Proper Good Poetry Stuff To Do In Notts
Wed 06 Feb 2019Here's a list of what we think are the best poetry events happening in Nottingham...
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Tentacles is a Creative Collective for Disabled and D/deaf Writers in Nottingham
Sun 20 Jan 2019Tentacles takes place at Nottingham Playhouse on Wednesday 30 January, 5pm.
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Notts Poet and Austerity Opposer Lytisha Tunbridge Tells Her Story
Tue 23 Oct 2018Lytisha Tunbridge won the Expanding Horizons Award 2018 at Nottingham Writers’ Studio, for her work supporting World Jam, DIY Poets, Poetry Aloud, Poets Against Racism, Social Model Writers, Sisterhood and Solidarity, Support the NHS, Young Voices, Reading with Dementia, and We Shall Overcome. Somehow she managed to find the time to share some words with us, and tell us her story...
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Violets are Blue: Miggy Angel Launches New Poetry Collection
Tue 09 Oct 2018Miggy Angel is a locally loved poet based in Nottingham, having moved originally from London with his family fifteen years ago. Last Friday, Miggy took to Waterstones' Sillitoe Suite to launch his latest collection Extreme Violets, and we sent our Benjamin Knight down to check it out.
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2B or not 2B? Super Hamlet 64 Comes to Nottingham Writers' Studio
Mon 01 Oct 2018Video may have killed the radio star, but so far theatre seems to be faring pretty well. Ed Day's debut touring show Super Hamlet 64 blends the best and brightest of video game culture with the great bard's most melodramatic tragedy — is this a level-up in the world of immersive theatre, or is the piece one blue shell short of a race? We sent Chris McLoughlin down to the National Writers' Studio to find out.
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Henry Normal on His New Poetry Collection and Preparing for Live Shows
Thu 27 Sept 2018The ever delightful poet, producer and screen-writer, Henry Normal, sat down for a quick chat about his latest poetry collection, This Phantom Breath, and what to expect from his upcoming live show, Nature V Human Nature....
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Some Things About Panya: Poet and Author Releases First Poetry Collection
Mon 10 Sept 2018With a career spanning over twenty years and work published in all manner of magazines, anthologies and journals, few poets have made a name for themselves in the way Panya Banjoko has. We sent our Kevin Jackson down to Five Leaves for the release of her new collection Some Things, and it's fair to say she made quite the impression.
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Poetry Profile: A Self-Help Group for People With Too Many Feelings
Thu 06 Sept 2018One year on from their debut, Between the Shadow and the Soul has quickly become a bastion of pleasant poetry. Ahead of their big birthday bash, I had a chat with co-founders Jim Sharpe and Kaia Hristova about the success of their infant poetry night, their own creative processes, and the importance of celebrating good feels.
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Proud to be Creative: An Interview With Write Pride Organiser Hayley Green
Tue 24 Jul 2018Representation is a bit of a buzz-word at the moment, so it's refreshing to see it done right. Nottingham-based poet and event organiser Hayley Green is the spearhead for the Write Pride Festival, a five-day event that celebrates some of Nottingham's best and brightest LGBTQIA creatives. We had a chat with her ahead of the festival to chat about the coming week.
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Black Writers Network's Ioney Smallhorne Talks New Anthology When We Speak
Sat 07 Jul 2018When We Speak: An Anthology of Black Writing in Nottingham is a new collection showcasing the work of nine poets from the city’s Black Writers Network. The pamphlet, edited by Panya Banjoko and published by New Art Exchange in association with Nottingham Black Archive, “challenges how blackness is seen or is expected to be seen” and aims to raise awareness of the continuing rich literary tradition of the African Caribbean community in Nottingham. We caught up with one of the poets included in the book: writer, filmmaker, and educator Ioney Smallhorne…
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Button Poetry Video Contest Runner-Up Jasmine Gardosi Headlines Poetry is Dead Good on Tuesday
Fri 15 Jun 2018Back in 2015, she won the Poetry is Dead Good Mix it up Midlands Slam, now she's bossing it on the Button Poetry YouTube Channel as one of the first Midlands poets to feature. This Tuesday, she headlines Poetry is Dead Good before the event breaks for the summer. Check out her poem, Raise Your Hand, here...
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Poetry Profile: Talking Psst. with Christopher Lanyon
Tue 12 Jun 2018In the immortal words of Björk, it's been oh so quiet in Nottingham this month with the launch of Psst., the latest in a long line of poetry events based in the city centre. The brainchild of Christopher Lanyon, Psst. is (in addition to being a grammatical nightmare), a prime example of the newest breed of Nottingham poetry: inclusive, soft, powerful and punchy. I popped down to Jam Cafe for their debut, and while I was there I managed to collar Chris for a chat over a pint of posh ale.
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Penguin in Nottingham: Under-represented Writers Needed WriteNow
Wed 06 Jun 2018World-famous publishers Penguin Random House are launching a new campaign – WriteNow – that seeks to engage writers you wouldn’t normally see on the bookshelves. They’re spreading the programme over three different cities in the UK, and thanks to UNESCO City of Literature, Writing East Midlands and NTU, Nottingham has been chosen as one part of the trinity. Last week saw a launch event on Broad Street with plenty of local talent kicking things off in style, all expertly hosted by Ben Welch…
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Backlit Galllery Are Looking For a Writer in Residence
Wed 30 May 2018The St Ann's gallery is offering up a very exciting opportunity for one of you wordy-whizzes...
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Poetry Profile: Crosswords
Fri 18 May 2018On the second Wednesday of every month in a cosy cave three floors below the Malt Cross you'll find Crosswords, Nottingham's only subterranean spoken word open mic. Our Martin Grey popped down to May's event and also had a chat with the organisers, Leanne Moden and Jake Wildeman, and this month's headliner, Gemma Baker.
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Art Review: Zanele Muholi's Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail The Dark Lioness at New Art Exchange
Fri 11 May 2018We got down to New Art Exchange's latest exhibition Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail The Dark Lioness
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Poetry Profile: Translating Activism Workshop with Kalyani Thakur, Sipra Mukherjee, and Jo Dixon
Sat 05 May 2018If you thought that we'd be sick of poetry after last week's festival, you'd be dead wrong. Today we're highlighting the incredible work of Kalyani Thakur, a Dalit poet and political activist from West Bengal, following her appearance at the Translating Activism workshop hosted by the Postcolonial Studies Centre at Nottingham Trent University.
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Nottingham Poetry Festival 2018 in Photos
Thu 03 May 2018We had a bleddy blast checking out what the bards had to say...
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Robin Hood Vs Sheriff of Nottingham Rap Battle and Mark Grist at Nottingham Poetry Festival in Photos
Thu 03 May 2018It was absolute carnage down at the Fox and Grapes for Poetry is Dead Good, as part of the Nottingham Poetry Festival...
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Nottingham Poetry Festival 2018: Thank Poetry It’s Friday!
Tue 01 May 2018LeftLion fills its boots on Poetry Glorious Poetry (as Oliver didn’t say!) at Poetry On A Plate and NPF PRESENTS: Elvis McGonagall, Stephen Thomas and Bridie Squires…
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Nottingham Poetry Festival 2018: Hollie McNish & Cleo Asarbre-Holt Warm Up The Old Cold Store
Tue 01 May 2018With millions of YouTube views and wit to rival any stand up, Hollie McNish is the friendly face of home-grown British poetry. Nottingham’s thriving poetry scene packed into the Old Cold Store (round the back of the Vat & Fiddle) to see her and Notts-based Cleo Asarbre-Holt perform.
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