Longbarrow Press has been at the forefront of the Sheffield publishing scene for at least ten years now, constantly re-injecting the UK literary scene with a traditional yet progressive elegance. […]
Penned In The Margins – Not Afraid To Take Risks
The world of small publishing press’ continues to evolve graciously, and with the small responsibility of preserving, as well as constantly re-defining the literary universe, it is clear to see […]
Review of the Hammer and Tongue Slam Final
The Hammer and Tongue National Poetry Slam is a marathon – 48 individual poets competing for the main title alongside a team slam from 7 teams across the UK and […]
Sound and Visual Artist Wanted for Poetry Light Night
Word Life has an exciting commission opportunity for a sound and visual artist. We are looking for two artists to create a short film each based on one of two […]
Cultural Varsity
Our next Word Life event is this Sunday at Sheffield Union. Word Life first started life in the Raynor Lounge. It’s been over 4 years since we last ran an […]
Lyric Festival Online
Earlier this year during Lyric Festival we had the pleasure of interviewing and filming performances from Simon Armitage, Paul Farley, Jacob Polley, Lavinia Greenlaw and Helen Mort. We’ve put these […]
21 Poets for Sheffield: A Digital Poetry Slam
Our new online commission from Off The Shelf Literature Festival has been getting a great response. Its a digital poetry slam, featuring 21 poets reading across 21 different locations in […]
Word Life – Theatre In The Mill 22/09/12
We had a lot of fun in Bradford last week with the first event of our brand new season at Theatre In The Mill. Featuring the likes of local poet […]
Northern Elements
Word Life was selected by the Arts Council as one of their partners on a regional live literature development scheme entitled ‘Northern Elements’. Alongside literature organisation Bad Language in Manchester […]
We Are Poets Documentary
We’ve recently been running some launch events for a new inspirational documentary about spoken word directed by local filmmakers Alex Ramseyer-Bache and Daniel Lucchesi at the Showroom Cinema and The […]
Poems On The Trams
We were recently commissioned by imove, Yorkshire’s cultural olympiad programme to run a new literature project called ‘Poems On The Trams’. Funded by Legacy Trust and supported by the […]
Buddy Wakefield
We were really happy to be able to bring one of the world’s most successful spoken word poets for performances in Sheffield and Rotherham. Buddy stopped off on his whistlestop […]