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A handy summary of what went on at the 2018 festival of poetry, performance and new writing

A few audio and video highlights from CSL 2017 & 2018

Performance and interviews from the live recording at CSL and Birmingham Literature Festival - with footage from the origin of the project in Jamaica

Â鶹Éç Radio 1Xtra celebrates spoken word!

Sean Scully's documentary A Northern Soul, Vicky Foster's one woman performance Bathwater and Tanya Shirley with discussion of Caribbean poetry.

The Verb at the 'Contains Strong Language' festival in Hull with Jackie Kay, Gruff Rhys, Louise Wallwein, Joe Hakim and work inspired by 'Palgrave's Golden Treasury'.

Jacob Polley, Caroline Bird, Wayne Holloway-Smith and Mary Jean Chan share poems about beginnings, arrivals and coming of age.

Extracts from Paul Farley's conversations with poets

Making the Caribbean soldiers of World War One visible through verse - with poet Tanya Shirley.

Some pictorial highlights from the 2018 festival