
Available to pre-order: Locked Down: poems, diaries and art from the 2020 pandemic, edited by Susan Jane Sims – now available to pre-order.
Posted: Saturday, 28 November 2020
Posted: Tuesday, 17 November 2020
A seasonal recording from a Bristol poet.
Posted: Friday, 30 October 2020
News of a You Tube poetry channel for families and schools, created by retired teacher Terry Willis during lockdown.
Posted: Saturday, 15 August 2020
Featured video – Alex Smith with Reporting to Duty; a tribute to his grandfather, Ted Smith.
Posted: Thursday, 11 June 2020
Posted: Thursday, 11 June 2020
Seshendra Sharma was a visionary Indian poet. He was nominated for a Nobel Prize For Literature in 2004. THE BURNING SUN I am the drop of sweat, I am the sun Rising from the hills of human sinews, Hearts are my friends I live in the city of sufferings Although in my fist, I hold • Read more…
Posted: Tuesday, 26 May 2020
Featured poet- audio recording. Hanna Komar, an award winning poet from Belarus, reads her poem, Amira.
Posted: Friday, 8 December 2017
Poetry Space editor and poet, Susan Jane Sims has been awarded a prestigious Hawthornden Fellowship for 2018. She will spend four weeks in January living in a castle near Edinburgh along with five other writers.
Posted: Friday, 8 December 2017
Posted: Tuesday, 14 November 2017
A beautiful poem to listen to. Enjoy.
Posted: Friday, 22 September 2017
Full results from Poetry Space Competition 2017 and the top three winning poems. Congratulations to Carole Bromley (1st and 2nd prize), Eileen Carney Hulme (2nd prize) and all commended poets. Thanks to all who entered.
Posted: Saturday, 18 March 2017
Poetry events coming up in Wiltshire
Posted: Thursday, 2 March 2017
Think of a subject, it could be oranges. Why not? That is as good as anything else. This past fortnight poets have been pondering ‘not poems’.
Posted: Wednesday, 1 March 2017
Lizzie Ballagher reviews two Poetry Space titles: What the Trees Are Telling Me by Elizabeth Rapp and Chester City Walls by Julia D. McGuinness
Posted: Tuesday, 7 February 2017
Poetry Space editor, Susan Jane Sims reviews A Fury of Yellow by Robin Thomas (Eyewear Aviator Series 2016)
Posted: Sunday, 20 March 2016
Poetry Space poet, Maureen Weldon was delighted to have her poem “Sink, And The Great House, North Wales,” included in Crannog, Spring Issue 41, 2016.
Posted: Sunday, 20 March 2016
Posted: Saturday, 6 February 2016
If you have not yet read Standing by the Wayside, by Prem Kumari Srivastava, this is definitely one to consider from the Poetry Space collection. Published during 2015 this is a collection that was a delight to work on. I have just had this lovely comment from Moira Andrew who has just read this collection: Prem’s • Read more…
Posted: Saturday, 6 February 2016
Thomas McColl. Being With Me Will Help You Learn . London, UK: Listen Softly London, 2015. A few weeks ago I was sent a copy Being With Me Will Help You Learn by Thomas McColl and it has accompanied me on my travels up and down to London recently on the train. There is quite • Read more…
Posted: Sunday, 31 January 2016
Posted: Thursday, 7 January 2016
Publisher: Green Bottle Press (July 1, 2015 ISBN-13: 978-1910804001 Jill Munro’s Man from La Paz, made perfect train travel reading recently on one of my many trips to and from London. I love its physical and sensual exuberance, and willingness to tackle the everyday aspects of life with humour and unflinching gaze. I never start on • Read more…
Posted: Saturday, 5 December 2015
A brand new pamphlet collection from Margaret Eddershaw in support of Ibba Girls School in South Sudan. “This lively and witty collection shows that Margaret is a traveller who, in the tradition of great poets, has an extraordinary gift for finding a visual image or a spoken phrase which somehow conjures up a person, a place, a culture, a moment in time.” (John Bennington)
ALL PROCEEDS TO IBBA GIRLS SCHOOL
Posted: Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Wendy Stern died earlier this year. This pamphlet contains a selection of her poems, dictated to her carers as she did not have the physical capacity to use a pen or a keyboard. The poems are uplifting, hopeful and accepting. Two poems, not in this selection will appear later in the 2016 competition anthology as they were commended by John Siddique.
Posted: Saturday, 14 November 2015
Posted: Friday, 30 October 2015
Posted: Wednesday, 14 October 2015
Posted: Tuesday, 15 September 2015
The judging is now complete and thanks are due to John Siddique for doing a wonderful job and all of the poets who entered and supported the competition this year. Top three poets are: Ama Bolton, Corin Greaves and Victoria Gatehouse. Please go to Poetry Space Competition for the full results.
Posted: Friday, 28 August 2015
Lizzie Ballagher, poet- in- residence on the South Downs Way
Posted: Monday, 3 August 2015
Recommend some summer reading from the Poetry Space collection and earn yourself a free book!
Posted: Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Tomasz Niedokos reviews London Manuscript by Anna Maria Mickiewicz
Posted: Saturday, 12 April 2014
A new photograph to respond to.This week it is by Chris Sims.
Posted: Wednesday, 26 March 2014
For Robert Frost’s birthday – March 26th 1874 a chance to read or revisit Mending Wall, a poem written by Frost in 1942.
Posted: Saturday, 8 March 2014
Celebration and Curiosity – Joan Poulson. Learn about Joan’s love of the natural world and her debt to “Granfer”.
Posted: Saturday, 8 March 2014
Another in our occasional Meet the Photographers series when we get to know a bit more about photographers who have allowed us to use their lovely photographs as inspiration for some equally stunning writing.
Posted: Sunday, 16 February 2014
Poetry Space review’s Annemarie Cooper’s new collection The Flight of Birds.
Posted: Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Beverley Ferguson, winner of the first Poetry Space Competition in 2010, considers the transformative role of poetry in her life
Posted: Friday, 10 January 2014
The first of a series of features on the photographers who have kindly let us put their poems on display as a visual stimulus for our poetry writing.
Posted: Thursday, 24 October 2013
Posted: Thursday, 24 October 2013
Tikki Tikki Man by Caroline Carver ISBN 978-0-9568969-4-0 Published by Ward Wood Publishing Reviewed by Susan Jane Sims – even weeds are stronger than I am – she says – I’m not like them I don’t want to push through concrete I don’t want to find the light Tikki Tikki Man, p.23 • Read more…
Posted: Monday, 23 September 2013
Dannie Abse celebrates his ninetieth birthday this week and says that his latest work might be his last.
Posted: Saturday, 21 September 2013
Posted: Sunday, 25 August 2013
Sue reviews Intensive Care by John Hirst
Posted: Friday, 26 July 2013
Some responses to Jo Waterworth’s collection: My Father Speaks in Poetry Too.
Posted: Friday, 28 June 2013
Glastonbury book launch for Jo Waterworth