I'm delighted to feature a remarkable poet in the Backroom today. Catherine Strisik is a poet from New Mexico of Greek background. Her p...

 Merry Christmas to all and a better New Year!  Thanks to all who have supported the #plague and all those who choose to spend time reading ...

Liz Berry's first book of poems, 'Black Country' (Chatto 2014), described as a ‘sooty, soaring hymn to her native West Midlands’...

Fantastic to squeeze another young Gael Into the Backroom, proof of the language’s continued vitality. Here’s Eoghan Stewart introducing him...

I am so pleased to feature another brilliant voice from across the Atlantic today, a poet from New Mexico. Elizabeth Jacobson is the Poet La...

  A great treat for you today folks! Many people have said how delighted they were to come into contact with poets in the course of the #pla...

Jim Ferguson is a veteran of the written and spoken word scene in the West of Scotland. If the poetry scene was inclusive and democratic and...