Feature: Article Books

Elizabeth George’s “Write Away” – an approach to fiction and the writing life

Elizabeth George is not the writing’s spoilsport: she just shunts a focal point along the writing’s shortcomings when somebody might want to quit this inner urge of creating for lack of method. Elizabeth George is the New York Times bestselling author of thirteen ...

Feature: Article Events

Poetry competition

As a subscriber to 'Poetry London' I am pleased to inform all poetry lovers about one of the most reputable and sought after poetry competitions organised in London. Please read carefully, complete the form provided and give it a go! 'The Poetry London Competition, ...

Feature: Article Culture

Up the Line
a night of poetry and reflection

11th of November, 2009 7.30 PM A drizzly cold night...I pulled over by Brockley and Ladywell cemetery and for a split second I said to myself: ‘I could have been home, by the fireplace with a book in my hand’. But I looked to my left and ...

Feature: Article Society

Poems in Trafalgar Square - runs until December 23

New poems around the Xmas tree in Trafalgar Square, commissioned by the Poetry Society and the Royal Norwegian Embassy. Kevin Crossley-Holland presents a new version of one of Norway's most popular poems, Snow and Spruce Forest, by Tarjei Vesaas. Tree ...

Feature: Article Press

So what if I copied work says Sir Andrew Motion, Shakespeare did all the time
Dominic Kennedy, Investigations Editor

From The Times November 9, 2009 The historian Ben Shephard: "quoted" by Sir Andrew Motion in his Remembrance poem Sir Andrew Motion has been accused of “shameless burglary” by a military historian whose research he lifted and ...