The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2021 is open for entries until 31 July 2021. It is free to enter and is open to poets aged 11-17 years anywhere in the world. Visit foyleyoungpoets.org to submit your poems.

A modern, genre-bending elegy, Passerine is an ambitious and accomplished poetic study of loss and hope. 

We talked to Amerah Saleh, General Manager at Beatfreeks, about her role, career path and any advice she had for young people interested in the arts. Read on to find out more!

This week on instaviews we will be interviewing Instagram poet and self-published author, J R Darbon. 

We go live with performance poet Jess Green this Friday at 1pm

Sanah talks about her latest experience in the BBC's ‘Performance Live: The Way Out’, her doctorate on whiteness in clinical psychology, and how spoken word can be used to help mental health

I sat down with poet Luke Wright on Zoom to discuss his successful live performances on Twitter, as a result of his nationwide tour being cancelled due to lockdown.

"I wanted to create a personal story that reflected the attitudes being displayed in a wider political narrative."

Time is my true enemy

Performance poetry + Rupi Kaur = perfection. 

Moniza Alvi has published five anthologies: two with Oxford University Press and three with Bloodaxe books. Her poetry reading, at the Literary Festival in my hometown, was emotionally stirring; each poem with significance and hidden implications.