Where did punk rock come from? In addition to its musical precursors, a new book makes the case that it was spawned in part by the creative exchange of musicians with the New York School of poets, ...

Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here, Godfrey reflects on rage, gender and building intensity through flickering imagery Australian Poetry Month: ...

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Ed Smith is a deceptive poet. Many of his pieces are so offhand, so attenuated, they hardly seem like poems at all. “I would never do this,” he declares in “Denial,” originally collected in his 1983 ...

On Thursday, March 13 at 8pm he will be at The Apex performing his latest live show which is a mix of classic verse, new material, hilarious ponderings on modern life, good honest gags, riffs and chat ...

Punk culture, American roots music and Walt Whitman’s poetry all come together on the Yawpers’ American Man, an album that mixes high-brow smarts with down-home stomp. Released October 30th by ...

Writer, performer, and visual artist Patti Smith is perhaps best known for her singular fusion of rock music with freeform poetry, particularly in her adopted home of New York in the ’70s. But through ...

From punk ragers to stories of Blake and Bunyan, the poet laureate of dissent wrings blood, sweat and love out of every second of stage time Not many rock shows begin with a standing ovation – and not ...

Poetry shouldn't cause flashbacks to snooze-inducing high school English class, a point well-noted by Amber Tamblyn, the poet and actress behind the poetry series The Drums Inside Your Chest and ...

LEGENDARY wordsmith John Cooper Clarke will be heading to the Yorkshire Coast and bringing with him two other stars of the poetry scene. Dr John Cooper Clarke will be performing at Whitby Pavilion on ...