#festiveplague #plagueopoems From Thursday 17th December, #plagueopoems will platform an outstanding poet every day with a profile, poem and...

 Saraband's blurb for Chris Dolan's new book 'Everything Passes Everything Remains'  immediately attracted me. " It...

In the midst of new lockdowns, we are well overdue a laugh. I have been long inclined to use humour in poetry to lever the door open for som...

Willie Neill is probably the south of Scotland’s finest poet since Burns. He was unique in speaking fluently the three languages of Scotland...

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...