Tony Harrison (1937-2025)
We are immensely saddened by news of the death of Tony Harrison, aged 88. V. A Homecoming readings in Leeds, Sunday 12 October, with separate events in Durham, Ilkley & Manchester, 11-13 October.
We are immensely saddened by news of the death of Tony Harrison, aged 88. V. A Homecoming readings in Leeds, Sunday 12 October, with separate events in Durham, Ilkley & Manchester, 11-13 October.
Katrina Porteous wins The Laurel Prize 2025 for her fourth poetry collection Rhizodont. She was interviewed about the book on BBC Radio 4's The Verb on 5 October 2025.
Gillian Allnutt's tenth collection Lode shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 2025.
Interview in North East Living; reviews of Rhizodont in TLS & elsewhere; Top 3 Books of 2024. Radio 4's The Verb TS Eliot Prize Readings; BBC Radio 4 Illuminated feature; interview on The Verb, 5...
Interviews on BBC Radio 3's Private Passions, Radio 4's Saturday Live & World Service's Arts Hour; reviews in Sunday Times, PW (US) & elsewhere. Imtiaz read a new poem on BBC Radio 4's The Verb, 5...
Reviews in The Guardian, Telegraph, The Little Review, TLS, The Northumbrian & The High Window; Gillian Allnutt interviews on BBC Radio 4's The Verb & in North East Living. Guardian POTW.
Jessica Traynor's fourth collection New Arcana reviewed in The Irish Times, in RTE Culture (Book of the Week) & on Books for Breakfast podcast; video poem feature in Books Ireland.
Rachael Boast's anthology Versus Versus reviewed in The Guardian of 2 August 2025; reviews Disability Arts Online, Brittle Paper & elsewhere. National Poetry Day recommendation.
Reviews in The Guardian, Telegraph, Glamour, The Saartjie Journal, Magma & Poetry London; Guardian Poem of the Week feature; Books of the Year features in The Telegraph, Guardian & Brittle Paper.
Reviews in New Welsh Review, Poetry Wales, Buzz, Mslexia, Publishers Weekly & LitHub; interviews in Wasafiri's subVERSEive video series & on BBC Radio 4's The Verb; Poetry Extra Book of the Month,...
