We meet with a community poetry group where poetry is a pleasure and a therapy.
Erasmus Darwin, described as ‘The Da Vinci of the Midlands’, is a man whose philosophical poetry has been called dangerously radical. Without him ‘On...
John Baird finds another part of Nottingham with unlikely literary connections.
Each week we'll post a celebration of Nottingham slang, a celebration of the inventiveness, warmth and sheer oddness of the words that make...
In the first in a regular series, we find the odd nooks and crannies around Notts that ooze literary history.
We recently previewed the fantastic Southwell Workhouse Poetry event at the Inspire Poetry Festival. Here, Carol Williams tells us more about how...
Nottingham's once vast coalfields was not just a source of the nation's energy, but a fertile ground for language. While the collieries have now seen...
Each week we'll post a celebration of Nottingham slang, a celebration of the inventiveness, warmth and sheer oddness of the words that make...
Alan Dawson meets the debonair Andrew Graves, aka Mulletproof Poet, to talk books, Bradbury and Bagpuss
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