Photograph by Zima Zima Great delight to see Sasha Dugdale in the Backroom today. There have been so many good poets in here, I've had t...

 I'm sure the last time I saw Jeanette Lynes was at a Burlesque show in Edmonton where we were both reading erotic poetry. I have so lit...

Delighted to feature Aurélia Lassaque in the Backroom today. Aurélia is a poet who writes in Occitan, the language of the medieval troubadou...

One lesson of the #plagueopoems is that Scotland seems jam packed with poets. There are loud poets and there are douce poets, poets who h...

Hugh Bryden's in the Backroom today, or maybe he's not. Or maybe he is and he doesn't know it. I don't know: it's ...

How great to re-open the Backroom for Carolyn Forché who has sent us not just one video poem but two. A double delight and pleasure. Car...

Some good news about the #plague is that it is now going to be the focus of a weekly feature from Renfrew Libraries, dedicated to inc...