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A culture and art programme has been introduced for Lewisham’s London Borough of Culture 2022.

Share The three winners of the James Berry Poetry Prize will each win £1,000, receive year-long mentoring and their debut book length collection will be published by Bloodaxe Books. The winning poets will be invited to take part in a James Berry Poetry Prize reading as part of the NCLA events series. Devised by Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo with inclusivity specialist Dr Nathalie Teitler, the prize is the first national poetry prize to include both mentoring and book publication. It is named in honour of James Berry, OBE (1927-2017), one of the first black writers in Britain to ...

Meet the young poets thriving in lockdown A new poetry competition reveals what young people feel about the future, with more than 350 works published in a companion anthology Signs of a poet: Thomas Bowden at school in Devon In a year where we have grappled with a maelstrom of emotions and been forced into periods of reflection and solitude, poetry has provided a literary hug. From the reassurance sought in the late Derek Mahon’s ‘ Everything Is Going to Be All Right’ to the humour of Brian Bilston’s ‘ An Outbreak of Matt Hancock,’ poetry has provided solace. Subject to an enforc...