The BBC’s Contains Strong Language Festival (CSL) – the UK’s biggest poetry and performance festival for new writing – took place in Leeds from September 21 – 24, 2023. Now in its 7th ...

Poet laureate Simon Armitage has welcomed the news that the government is investing £5m into the development of the National Poetry Centre, which will be located in Leeds. Part of a £20m project ...

Plans to convert a Leeds church into a National Poetry Centre and a former Ikea in Coventry into a visitor attraction are among cultural projects that have had government funding worth £67m ...

The "critical" funding includes £15m for the National Railway Museum in York, £10m for the British Library North in Leeds and £5m for the National Poetry Centre, also in Leeds. The money is ...

Leeds United manager Daniel Farke acknowledges ... Photo: Zac Goodwin/PA Wire. "The fourth goal was poetry in motion I would say. The individual performance of the players up front was of the ...

Marking 'National Poetry Day' with the volunteer-run poetry group 'Write Out Loud.'Marking 'National Poetry Day' with the volunteer-run poetry group 'Write Out Loud.' Available for over a year ...

Elsewhere in the region, £5m is secured for the National Poetry Centre in Leeds, and £10m towards the revamp of Temple Works as a new home for British Library North. The aim, the Government has ...

The investment into York’s National Railway Museum and the British Library North and National Poetry Centre in Leeds was originally proposed early last year. The projects then came under ...

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage is behind the plan to set up the National Poetry Centre Plans to convert a Leeds church into a National Poetry Centre and a former Ikea in Coventry into a visitor ...