Poetry Society Free Verse Poetry Book Fair

If you’d like to say hello in person we will be at the Poetry Society Free Verse Poetry Book Fair … More

Live radio: What Gives a Poem Staying Power

Pennine Platform’s delighted to announce that Julia and four poets featured in Pennine Platform Issue 96 will appear live on … More

Meet some of Huddersfield’s most inspirational poets, whose work – often behind the scenes – is bringing poetry to new … More

A bit of poetry history is made in Hebden Bridge. Thanks for coming, everyone.

Chuffed to be reading with issue 95 contributor Chris Preddle on June 4th, plus subscribers and contributors in the audience. … More

After 51 years in print, Pennine Platform made its debut at the Poetry Society’s Free Verse Book Fair in London … More

Regular readers will notice a slight difference in this issue: after ten contributions K E Smith is taking a break … More

Our fourth live radio gig took place on Tuesday 30th January 2024. Join me and four Issue 94 contributors as … More

As another ominous war fills our screens, and poets in safer places question their perhaps trivial obsession with words, politicians … More

Julia and recent contributors discuss how poems, and long-running poetry magazines, work. Our first two live broadcasts from Leeds’ dynamic … More

‘Embarrassment at being human,’ said Kay Ryan in The Yale Review (2004), ‘may be a deeper provocation to artistic production … More

When the late Hilary Mantel finished her Wolf Hall trilogy, ending a twelve-year relationship with Thomas Cromwell – and, at … More

The daily norms which two years ago most people took for granted have mutated yet again. Most starkly for Ukrainians … More

What is natural-sounding speech, and why is it so valued? Raymond Williams’ discussion of ‘nature’ in his Keywords was fraught … More

Jonathan Van-Tam has a way with metaphors. The Deputy Chief Medical Officer’s clear football analogies for tackling Covid-19 are a … More

‘Poetry in school,’ said Simon Armitage this September, ‘is one of those few occasions when you can experience language for … More

At some stage in their careers most serious poets attend writing workshops. These events differ widely. Some are closed shops; … More