A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

DECEMBER 2025

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Last Saturday Poetry with Katrina Moinet,Andy Breckenridge, Margaret Royall, Barnaby Harsent, Saraswati Nagpal, Julian Cason & Sue Spiers

Despite a shelf full of awards and a critically acclaimed new album out now, Little Simz is just getting started. For GREATEST 10, she explains why.

Hear poet Barnaby Harsent read poems exclusively for iamb. If you like The Poetry Archive, this poetry site is for you.

Much is made of the distinction between poems written for the page, and pieces that have performance at their heart. This event will feature a panel discussion looking at the similarities and...

Much is made of the distinction between poems written for the page, and pieces that have performance at their heart. This event will feature a panel discussion looking at the similarities and...

Much is made of the distinction between poems written for the page, and pieces that have performance at their heart. This event will feature a panel discussion looking at the similarities and...

More than 2,000 cultural figures challenge Whitehall’s eagerness ‘to ­wrap our lives’ work in attractive paper for automated competitors’

By the end of 1979, hesitation had given way to dread. We fully expected to be facing the end of the world. Margaret...