The Liverpool Poets, then and now.

The 1960's saw an explosion of popular culture in Liverpool. While The Beatles led many Merseyside groups to the top of the music charts, three poets emerged and took the sound of Liverpool poetry to the top of the book charts with the Penguin anthology "The Mersey Sound".  Adrian Henri, Brian Patten and Roger McGough became known as the Liverpool Poets and their incarnations in groups like The Liverpool Scene,  Scaffold and later Grimms made Liverpool poetry an important movement and raised the three Liverpool Poets to iconic status.  The success of the Liverpool Poets ensured that there was a ready flow of new poets trying to emulate their success.  Liverpool is a hotbed of poetic activity with organisations like The Windows Project placing writers and poets in local schools and playgroups, and venues opening their doors to regular poetry events, and organisations like Dead Good Poets keeping the enthusiasm for live performed poetry on the agenda.  Liverpool Poetry can be sarcastic, funny, heat wrenching, it can move you to tears and laughter sometime at the same time.  So this site is dedicated to the New Liverpool Poets the poets who will be reciting their poems in the pubs and clubs of Liverpool this week, next week, and next year.  The poets who keep the faith and turn up to read their words in Liverpool.

This site is dedicated to the poets who help keep poetry alive in Liverpool

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