Roy Marshall After writing poems and songs as a child and teenager, Roy began writing poems again in his late thirties. A pamphlet, Gop...

Coplowdale It’s warm in there. Sometimes it steams. I’ve heard it said, on occasion they spontaneously combust, but for now  it ho...

Nora Nadjarian is an award-winning Cypriot poet and writer. She has been cited or published in the Guardian , the Irish Times and th...

The Lowdham Book Festival is a yearly event that takes place in the village of Lowdham just outside Nottingham, and as of 2018 has been ...

By Emma Parker In 1967, Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton won the prestigious Evening Standard Play of the Year Award for his anarch...

By Jonathan Taylor My new poetry collection, published in June 2018 by Shoestring Press , is entitled Cassandra Complex , and is full...

By Jonathan Taylor Over the last few weeks, I've had the pleasure of judging the inaugural Leicester Book Prize , with co-judges F...