
Norfolk-based poetry magazine The Rialto has received confirmation that it had been successful in its application to Arts Council England for funding through the National Lottery programme, ‘Grants for the Arts’.
Hear John Burnside reading five of his poems from Black Cat Bone and talking about his influences on the Guardian Books podcast.
The Poetry Book Society is delighted to announce that John Burnside has won the 2011 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry with Black Cat Bone, published by Jonathan Cape.
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Last night saw the eight T S Eliot Prize shortlisted poets reading at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, in a celebration of this year's shortlist.
A free symposium on the magazine Encounter and its history, and the larger question of Anglo-American cultural relationships.
A lively new festival celebrating the very best of literature will be held at Dinefwr Park and Castle in west Wales in 2012.