Just back this evening from another event at the brilliant Poetry International festival at the Southbank Centre, my second since the festival kicked off at the weekend. Litro’s fairly well ...
Oi. Litro has a bit of a backlog of post-worthy material—a backblog, if you will. But rather than let these items slip away from us unacknowledged, here’s what I’ll do: ...
Have you heard, have you heard? Today, the 9th of October, is National Poetry Day! How, you might wonder, in the absence of specified cultural rituals does one celebrate National ...
Writers are a peculiar lot, often possessed of vague superstitions and idiosyncratic behaviours that they hope will somehow pin down the ever elusive Muse (that bitch). Nabokov wrote on index ...
According to this article retail giant Tesco have bowed to pressure from grammarians (and pedants like us) and removed the ‘”10 items or less” signs from the aisles of their ...
