In the third of our Shakespearean Sonnet competition winners, Brian Robert Flynn revisits John Keats’ sonnet 635: ‘When I have fears that I may cease to be’. Continue ...
In the first of our Shakespearean Sonnet competition winners, Uschi Gatward reappropriates Sonnet 66 for the modern economy. Continue Reading Shakespearean Sonnet Competition: Sonnet 666
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A legacy left in ink. Continue Reading Shakespeare’s Words
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Founder Michael Schmidt, describing the poets in Carcanet’s last anthology, used the curiously business-friendly phrase “high strike rate”. What would the savvy poetry speculator have made of it? ...
Write a Shakespearean sonnet before 10th April, and win Ben Crystal’s Shakespeare on Toast and a free ticket to Litro Live!: an evening of Words, Music and Conversation ...
“The critical reception of any women’s poetry that can be labelled ‘confessional’ has engendered a self-consciousness about the ‘I’ which significantly contributed to my own discomfort in writing poetry in ...
On the electrical relationship between Brazilians and the ocean. Continue Reading Current
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A Brazilian remembers rainy days in London. Continue Reading An Equation in Hyde Park
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On seeing clothes not unworn and mountains not unmoving. Continue Reading Open Closet Door & We Call the Breath of the Mountains
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In the last of her articles on the relationship between music and poetry, Clémence Sebag looks at how the spoken word draws on musical influences. Continue Reading ...
Should song lyrics ever be called poems? Clémence Sebag explores the murky world of musicians who claim poet status. Continue Reading Lyrics or Poems? And Does it ...
Send us a haiku telling us what you think about the ways technology is changing reading and be in with a chance of winning a new Nook HD. ...
Science, love, revolution and English history – poetry at the Edinburgh Festival Continue Reading Litro in Edinburgh: The Poets
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For book-lovers everywhere, Latitude Festival in Henham Park, Suffolk, offers the most comprehensive of all literary events in the world. We take a look at the must-see performers and shows. ...
This week In the Bedroom, Sally performs her poem Bathwater and updates us on the latest poetry news. Continue Reading In The Bedroom: Bathwater and Poetry News
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The beautifully crafted poetry of Wioletta Grzegorzewska mesmerises with its observations of the human spirit. The poetess, who settled on the Isle of Wight, navigates her existence between Poland and ...
LitroTV is thrilled to announce our new fortnightly video diary, In the Bedroom, with performance poet Sally Jenkinson. Sally will be sharing poems, reviewing gigs and letting you in on ...
LitroTV grabs a word with insatiably busy spoken word artist and educator Dean Atta in transit, to discuss poetry in the information age, breaking down boundaries with words, and his ...
LitroTV kicks off April’s transgression theme with a performance poem from Anna Freeman Continue Reading Performance Poetry: Anna Freeman
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Do check out tomorrow night’s “Endless Poem”, an intercultural event as part of Rio Occupation London, presented in partnership with Litro. Directed by Rob Drummer and written by Brazilian poet Ramon ...
