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5 Things to do in Nottingham This Week

Here's a load of stuff to do for the Nottingham popularse...

The Thompson Brothers on Not Being Tories

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Weekend

Get your party pants on, cos Notts is poppin' this weekend...

Overheard in Notts

The daftest things you lot say...

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

Find out what's been going off around and about Nottingham city for the past month...

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Week

Summat for every night of the week, duck...

Sound of the Lion #59

With Arc Nade, Endless Grinning Skulls, Cameron Sinclair Harris, Minatore, Daudi Matsiko, Widows, Sawyer, Tom McCartney and London Grammar...

England Lions V South Africa A at Trent Bridge Cricket Ground

The sun was out and the entry was free, so we sent Gav along to check out the England nearly men as they took on their South African counterparts in the cricket at Trent Bridge…

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Weekend

Bags upon bags of fruit for the blender...

Nottingham in Photos

Our city's photographers are some of the best in the biz. Have a flick through the latest gallery of photos, all taken from around and about the city...

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Week

More fun than you can shake a stick at...

Sound of the Lion #58

With Alice Short, Brooders, Jum, Ben McElroy, Fonzse, Crimson General, Alec Bowman, Gallery 47 and Punish The Atom...

7 Write Lion Poetry Performances at Rough Trade

We miss Nottingham Poetry Festival. Very much. We whacked on a night made up of some of the poets featured on our printed pages over the past year or so, and our mate David Belbin made a few videos of the boggers. Enjoy!

Quiet Riot Collected Anthology Launch at Nottingham Poetry Festival in Photos

Write Your Own Videogame with Hello Words at the NVA

Writing for computer games is more than just up, down, left, right, jump. There are multiple worlds and narratives to consider, as well as which media platform to use. Fortunately, Nottingham’s very own videogame writer, Lynda Clark, has helped form a writing group – Hello Words – at The NVA, to offer a bit of support for those who don’t know their Twine from their Inkle…

Poets Phlexx Their Muscles at Suede

Phlexx Records put on a hell of a show down at Suede Bar last week: 24 Poets, four heats, one final. With some seriously sick prizes up for grabs.

An Ode to the Nottingham Poetry Festival

Bringing poetry to the masses, one week at a time...

Music, Madness and Poetry Party-Animals at Mudfest

Notts-based publishers Mud Press launched their latest poetry anthology Woman last week. We rolled up our sleeves and dived into Cobden Chambers for the launch party. 

High Stakes and Sportswear at Poetercize! the Poetry Game Show

Scores were settled and mischief was made at Rough Trade this Saint George's Day, but which of our contestants won the championship title in this zany gameshow? We sent LP Mills to the hottest sporting event in Nottingham to find out. 

Miner David Amos and Linguist Natalie Braber on Poetry in Pit Talk

If you don’t know your ‘elephant’s tab’ from your ‘Monday hammer’, fear not. Seventh generation miner David Amos and linguist Natalie Braber have all the gobbings you need to understand Pit Talk...

Big White Shed's Poetry Publisher Anne Holloway Answers Questions in Photos

Founder of the Big White Shed, a meeting place for creatives to seek advice and trade expertise, Anne Holloway has shown us the inner workings of her mind through the art of photography. This month, she’s rounding up some of her favourite poetic pals to perform as part of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. The likes of Chris McLoughlin, Trevor Wright and Hayley Green will be spraying similes and internal rhymes like nobody’s business over at Debbie Bryan for your viewing pleasure. Word.

Poetercize: The Poetry Game Show at Nottingham Poetry Festival

Stephen 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

After 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

Known 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

A local artist lets us in on his artistic process..