East Of The North

Join us as we head back twenty years into our archives of The North to revisit some of the features ...

Lydia Harris reads two poems from her 2023 International Book & Pamphlet Competition Highly Commended collection. About Lydia Harris Lydia ...

River Wolton reads her poem ’19th January’ from her 2022 collection Year. In River Wolton’s ⁠Year⁠, the intention to write ...

Lauren O’Donovan reads two poems from her 2023 International Book & Pamphlet Competition Highly Commended collection. About Lauren O’Donovan Lauren ...

Clementine Burnley reads two poems from her 2023 International Book & Pamphlet Competition Highly Commended collection. About Clementine Burnley Born ...

Congratulations to the winners – Doreen Gurrey for her collection, A Coalition of Cheetahs and Laurie Bolger for her collection, ...

During this residency I’ve been thinking about re-reading There’s some guilt attached to it, at least in my experience: a voice that asks, why waste time reading something you’ve read before, when you could...

Poetry is more than ever necessary to us just now. It would be good to know which books have meant most to you in the first twenty-one years of the 21st Century, and...

The Equilibrium Line by David Wilson is winner of the BANFF Poetry and Fiction Award 2019, and is shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award 2019 – the first UK-published book to be honoured in...

Most of you of course weren’t able to be with us in person, but Ann and I grew up with patchouli and tie-dye and could feel the love even from you hundreds of absent...

A poetry pamphlet is a beautiful endeavour; it is a larger canvas than a single poem, and easier to sustain than a full collection. As a writer, it allows you to approach a thing...

This affirmative anthology shows that poetry and running have much in common, fulfilling a basic need to live freely, expressively and to feel alive. The poems gathered here reflect this freedom in all its...