It could be verse! Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s uplifting new work about how coronavirus pandemic has changed lives is released to mark National Poetry Day today Poet Laureate Simon Armitage said lockdown sometimes left him lost for words His new work is about how pandemic changed lives and is released today It’s a commission for … Read more
The one lesson I’ve learned from life: Poet Pam Ayres says you don’t need a crowd to be happy Pam Ayres, 73, is known for her work as a poet, comedian and broadcaster She says she’s learnt to be happy with just a few of her closest around her And Pam adds that family who … Read more
He says he felt ‘doomed to perpetual failure’ in his youth, before achieving fame with his best-selling novel Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. Now Louis de Bernieres has paid a final, heartfelt tribute to the man who made it possible — his father, Piers de Berniere-Smart, who has died peacefully aged 96. ‘I wouldn’t be a writer … Read more
From Simon Armitage’s The Poet Laureate Has Gone To His Shed to Lockdown Parenting Hell and Miriam And Youssef, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 23 May 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 23 May 2020 The Poet Laureate Has Gone To His Shed Simon Armitage, the nation’s bard, is spending lockdown … Read more