Next Generation Poets to go on tour

Poets selected by the Poetry Book Society as its Next Generation Poets 2014 will be heading on tour across the country for the next month. Writers including Adam Foulds, Helen Mort, Daljit Nagra and Annie Freud will take part in the tour a follow-up to an intital tour in 2014, appearing at venues including arts centres, bookshops and libraries. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Eli Evans, ‘poet laureate’ of the Jews of the South, dies at 85

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Baxter Black, trail boss of the cowboy poets, dies at 77

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