Radio 4's cabaret of the word, featuring the best poetry, new writing and performance.

Our featured publication for Summer is How to Leave a Body by Holly Winter-Hughes, published by Verve Poetry Press. ‘Holly Winter-Hughes’ visceral writing turns the human form inside-ou…

Our featured publication for Summer is How to Leave a Body by Holly Winter-Hughes, published by Verve Poetry Press. ‘Holly Winter-Hughes’ visceral writing turns the human form inside-ou…

Wendy Pratt hosts a poetry workshop over Zoom

VERVE Poetry Press presents Rue Collinge, Glyn Edwards, Max Wallis & Katrina Naomi reading from their brand new pamphlets.

The first thing to say about FLOW is this: it doesn’t care if you’re ready. From its opening lines — “Rain, stinging rain, skelped in from the west” — Davis

Our featured publication for Summer is How to Leave a Body by Holly Winter-Hughes, published by Verve Poetry Press. ‘Holly Winter-Hughes’ visceral writing turns the human form inside-ou…

This month’s poems embrace chaos of form, of subject, of fragmentation. They reach into nothingness where meaning falters and begins again.

Join us in the bookshop for an evening celebrating local, award-winning poet, Katrina Naomi, for the launch her new pamphlet 'Dance As If'.

Our featured publication for Winter is Deathless by Catherine Balaq, published by Verve Poetry Press. Sex and death are truisms. We begin through the act of one and the other is the ultimate exit. …

Our featured publication for Winter is Deathless by Catherine Balaq, published by Verve Poetry Press. Sex and death are truisms. We begin through the act of one and the other is the ultimate exit. …

Dreamy and playful, Gabrielle Tse’s debut pamphlet Rustlings speaks to memory and domesticity, maintaining a balletic lightness above fractures in language and heritage. With all its subtle sounds …